With new flick 'SUPER 8' paying homage to 'ET', star DEE WALLACE reveals her childhood horrors in a white knuckle tell-all!
“E.T.” star Dee Wallace suffered a nightmarish childhood with an alcoholic father who repeatedly tried to kill himself before finally succeeding by putting a bullet in his head.
That’s just one of the shocking revelations the 62-year- old actress shared with The ENQUIRER in an exclusive interview for her new autobiography, “Bright Light”.
Dee – who played the frazzled single mom in the movie classic “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” in 1982 – opened up about her emotionally damaged dad, admitting that she couldn’t recall a time when her father Robert, a comic book salesman, wasn’t drinking or drunk.
“When I was nominated for homecoming queen, I asked him, ‘Daddy, can you promise me you won’t drink that day? If you don’t drink, I want you to escort me.’
“He took a deep breath and said, ‘Sorry, Button-nose. I can’t promise that.’ It hurt that the bottle was more important to him than I was.”
Later, after a series of suicide attempts, her dad shot himself in the head outside a tavern, where he died.
Dee also reveals the career decision she believes got her blackballed in Hollywood.
When “E.T.” was released, the Screen Actors’ Guild had a rule that required the name of any actor with a starring role be placed above the film title in the movie credits.
But because “E.T.” was a Steven Spielberg film, Universal Studios didn’t want anyone’s name to appear before his.
“Both my agent and my manager begged me to make an exception, but I said no,” she says.
“I didn’t do another major studio film for 15 years, despite the huge success of ‘E.T.’
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