Tina Louise was troubled by loneliness as a boarding school child before being stuck on a tropical island.
The actress, who found fame as a charming Ginger grant on the sitcom Gilligan’s Island, recently released her 1997 book, “Audio Version.” “Sunday: Memoirs.” For the first time, the star said she felt free to finally be able to discuss her painful childhood in depth.
“I didn’t live with my mother until I was 11,” Louise told Fox News Digital. “I spent the whole period of my life without her… I had it all in me, and I was in anger. By the time I was greeted by my mother, she was with her third husband and spent another life.
From left: Dawnwells, Bobdenver, and Tinaruises from around 1965. Louise feels that for the first time she will be briefly telling her full story. (Arami)
“I live there now,” Louise shared. “But I’ve never dealt with what happened to me. When the book first came out, my mother was alive. She didn’t like it to the point that she said I made it.
When Louise (then Tina Blacker) was born, her mother was 18 and her father was 10. By the time she was four, they had divorced. At age 6, she Boarding School in Ardsley, New York; She wondered if her parents would come back for her.
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“I didn’t want to be there right away from the start,” she explained. “We were all a bunch of angry little girls, something like “the fly master.” No one wanted to be there. And you’ve always had a little girl gang. You were always trying to find someone to choose. I was told my job was to hit this little girl.
Louise’s audiobook “Sunday” is currently available. (audible)
“I remember having a very bad cold and trying to make sure I could barely talk about it,” Louise said. “They kept feeding me hot milk. I was asked to call my mother. I told her I wanted to come, but I was told it wasn’t the time to leave.
One student stabbed Louise in her wrist with a pencil. The faint scars still exist, she said. When she was caught chatting with another little girl at night, Louise claimed that the teacher had covered her position and made her stand in a pitch black bathroom where the spider was raw across the ceiling. She explained that she was being slapped when she struggled to run the bath. Her closest friend was a caterpillar hidden in a box under the bed. They were taken away, she said.
Louise later created comfort as an actress. (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)
“They took everything,” Louise recalls. “My mother once brought me a doll. It was taken away quickly in the night. I don’t remember getting it back. You don’t remember anything like that. You remember it being taken away.”
Louise spends her time reading to her children. (J. Countess/Wireimage/Getty Images)
Louise always prayed for Sunday. It was the day of my visit. She was always waiting for her parents that day, but they didn’t always come.
“I was craving a hug,” she said. “I don’t think I know what was going on. I knew there was pain.”
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From left: Producers Sherwood Schwartz, actresses Dawn Wells and Tina Louise, actors Bob Denver and Russell Johnson resigned from the behind-the-scenes Gilligan Island Awards at the 2nd Annual TV Land Awards held at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California on March 7, 2004. (Frank Miscellotta/Getty Images)
Until Louise was eight, she was unable to move in with her father and his new wife. She was overjoyed. However, her happiness will not last long. At 11, her mother, married a wealthy doctor, a third of her four husbands, wanted to live with her. A flashy New York City townhouse.
Young Tina Louise recorded her only album, “It’s Time for Tina” in 1957. (Popsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Louise admitted that for years she had been angry with her father for being willing to fight for her in court. She wouldn’t have seen him until Hollywood had just got a call.
“I was very angry,” she said. “I couldn’t even say his name, it couldn’t come out of my mouth… I was hoping he would do something about it. I couldn’t believe that when I went to live with my mother I had to tell him I couldn’t see him anymore.
Louise said she was 22 years old and was looking for her father. (Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
At the age of 22, Louise, an adult who began acting, heads out to find her father.
Louise, circa 1960. (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)
“We had to establish a new relationship,” she said. “It wasn’t easy, but it had to be rebuilt.”
Her relationship with her mother was complicated.
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Louise and Brad Pitt attend the Beverly Hills premiere of “Johnny Suede” at the Laemmle’s Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills, California, around 1992. (Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images)
“She was a lively person, but she lost her mother when she was three,” Louise explained. “So she had problems… She was 18 and couldn’t imagine having a child. She had no mother. My grandfather only saw it twice.
Louise is seen interviewing Elvis Presley when she returned from her 1959-60 Army mission tour in Germany. (Getty Images)
“My mother had a world of her dreams,” she recalled. “She wanted to live in a certain way and be surrounded by certain people. She was so beautiful. She loved art. But she lost her temper with people… I don’t think she noticed herself… But she went with the fact that I wanted to study acting.
Louise later escaped from her past as Castaway. She was katakai to stardom Gilligan’s Island is a sitcom from the 60s. Over the years, we’ll continue to find new audiences thanks to reruns and streaming platforms.
Louise did not become rich from “Gilligan Island.” (Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Louise insisted that the show wouldn’t make the cast rich. she I told Forbes before That she has not received the residue.
From left: Ginger (Tina Louise), Mary Anne (Dawn Wells), and Mrs. Howell (Natalie Schaefer) in the scene from the 1960s television comedy Gilligan’s Island. (Getty Images)
“No one got them back then – there was no one there,” she told Fox News Digital. “I read it somewhere [co-star] dawn [Wells] I was able to get something through a lawyer. But that’s what I read. i don’t remember. But we never did. The people who owned it made a lot of money, that’s certainly true. I’m surprised it’s still on! ”
In 1996, Louise read another article. Regarding poor reading ability of students, New York Times It has been reported. It urged her to join Learning Leaders, a nonprofit that trained volunteers to tutor students from New York City public schools. According to the outlet, she worked quietly with students for the next 20 years.
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My daughter and Louise were in New York Fashion Week around 2002. (Evan Agostini/Imagdirect/Getty Images)
The outlet said Louise began helping herself after the organization lost funds a few years ago.
Louise said helping children learn to read is one of her lifelong passions. (Chad Buchanan/Getty Images)
That’s what she does today too.
“It gives me so much joy,” she said. “We help students and give them hope.”
