The Strange Truth About The Betty Broderick Story

In 1998, Betty Broderick told the San Diego Reader that she was most similar to her youngest daughter, Lee Broderick. When you look at Lee's relationship with her father, it's not hard to see the parallels — and her testimony during her mother's trial gave an eye-opening glimpse.

According to the Los Angeles Times, during the trial, Lee spoke about her father's temper. She claimed Daniel Broderick and his new wife would call Betty disparaging names like "fat, disgusting, beastly, the Beast, the Monster, on the rampage, on the warpath." Lee wasn't even allowed to have a key to her father's house — even though she lived there part time — because he didn't want Betty to have access. "I'd knock on the door, and, if nobody was home, I'd have to go somewhere else," she said.

Unsurprisingly, Lee was actually removed from her father's will, which served as a true testament to their relationship. "He had told me before that he was going to write me out, but I didn't think he would. But he did," she told the Los Angeles Times in 1989. His estate was split equally among the other three Broderick siblings.

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