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Your evening longread: A rare interview with Hollywood icon Shelley Duvall

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Shelley Duvall

Shelley Duvall starred in some iconic films – like The Shining, Popeye and Three Women. But in recent years, she has lived a more difficult life, and dealt with mental health issues. The Hollywood Reporter visited her recently to find out how she was.

(Hollywood Reporter, approx 21 mins reading time)

The locals are fond of Duvall, to them more of an eccentric aunt than faded movie star. They’re also protective of her — particularly since 2016, when Phil McGraw and his Dr. Phil crew descended on the town to shoot a disturbing interview with Duvall, during which she babbled free-associative nonsense and disclosed paranoid fantasies. (Among them, she insisted her Popeye co-star Robin Williams, who died by suicide in 2014 after suffering from delusions, was still alive and “a shapeshifter.”) The episode was met with near-universal condemnation of Dr. Phil. “Everybody was appalled,” Keller recalls. “It just came across as craven and sensational.” For Duvall’s many fans — and even her closest Hollywood friends — that shocking Dr. Phil appearance was the first they’d seen or heard from her since she fled Hollywood during the mid-1990s. The circumstances around that move remain unclear. 

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    Dec 30th 2022, 3:33 PM

    A great effort and a show of real compassion from Erin Research to find this mans family. Well done all involved.

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    Dec 30th 2022, 3:47 PM

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    Dec 30th 2022, 4:03 PM

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    Dec 30th 2022, 7:28 PM

    Even more respect could be shown by referring to the man by his full name or Mr Gill. The quote of the Birmingham City Council rep is also incorrect as he had the good manners to refer to the man as Mr Gill throughout the interview. The Journal would do well to take note and follow there example

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    Dec 30th 2022, 7:36 PM

    @Des Dalton: O My , you have little to whinge about .

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    Dec 30th 2022, 8:34 PM

    So for at least 12 years noone gave a f**k about this man, not even his siblings? What a wonderful family it must be…

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    Dec 31st 2022, 1:46 AM

    @Dominic Kus: just wondering what you knew of the circumstances here? Had you close contact with his remaining siblings? Don’t make judgements, unless you have all the facts. We know nothing of the situation or circumstances.

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    Dec 31st 2022, 12:01 AM

    Well done credit

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