The following article includes mentions of drug addiction and rape.
The documentary shows just how incredibly misunderstood and scrutinized Smith was.
“They were having troubles with this 29-year-old man that Vicky Lynn was infatuated with …
I had the windows sealed shut.”
When asked about her home life once, Smith struggled to answer the question.
During her time there, another stripper named Missy Byrum quickly befriended her and took her under her wing.
“I had no reason not to believe her.”
“I thought I was in love.
Oh gosh, he was so, so jealous of me.
I couldn’t go anywhere.
“I thought to myself, ‘I’m so lonely.’
Then I thought, if I have a baby, I’ll never be lonely again.”
And just a little time later, she did just that and gave birth to her son Daniel.
When Daniel was just 6 months, she left her husband.
“She had big dreams.”
“There wasn’t nothing she wanted in her life from Mexia, Texas.”
“Within a week or two, she was like a pro,” Missy Byrum recalled.
“His wife had died, so he wanted to marry her and was a billionaire.
By 1994, the two had married and Marshall wanted Smith to be secure financially.
Marshall even tried to adopt Smith’s son, Daniel, which didn’t transpire.
“I heard from a photographer in Texas,” Grabowski recalls of Smith.
“He said I have pics of this girl I think would be a good playmate.
So, I decided to bring her in for a playmate test.
My staff thought I was crazy.”
Most models were overexcited and eager to pose for Playboy.
“Beautiful young girls would want to be playmates,” Graboski explained.
“It was akin to them as it was being Miss America.”
But Smith was absolutely terrified.
Graboski recalls giving Smith a pep talk before her shoot to ease her nerves.
“She was sitting in the corner with a sheet on and she was terrified,” she said.
She was a different person.”
Smith embodied a Marilyn persona and exuded a different confidence allowing for a successful shoot.
“Hef approved the cover right away,” Graboski said.
“I was really in love with her,” Byrum said of the late model.
“I was her first female lover I guess.”
The two became friends when Smith started stripping at the same club Missy worked at.
“She had an insatiable appetite for sex, just like everything else,” Byrum said.
“She was a good lover.”
Byrum further stated how being intimate with Smith gave her a sexual awakening.
“She was convinced that the only thing holding her back was her boobs.”
“It hurts like hell,” Byrum said of the procedure.
These included muscle relaxants, pain relievers such as methadone, and several anti-anxiety medications.
“From that time on, she was always taking them,” Byrum said.
“There was nothing she could do to stop.”
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“There’s two major movies that want me,” Smith states over the phone.
“One is called ‘The Mask’ and one is ‘Naked Gun 3.'”
Smith then reveals how little “The Mask” was willing to pay her.
Smith then weighs the pros and cons of taking the role over “Naked Gun 3.”
Monroe, too, was also a Playboy playmate, a sex symbol, and loved by many.
However, she was also misunderstood, had underlying traumas, and faced a drug addiction.
“There was really a deep bond between her and Marilyn,” she said.
“She really felt that maybe she was Marilyn’s reincarnated daughter.”
Her mother rarely spoke of him and discouraged Smith from seeing him.
Once she had fame and fortune, Smith hired a private investigator to find her father.
She stayed anonymous about her identity and didn’t let them know who she was until she met them.
I was very emotional.
He was so happy, like freaking out.
As soon as they sat inside, Smith began explaining the pomp and circumstance.
“Okay, I’ll tell you what I do,” she started as they drank champagne.
“I’m a Guess model and also Playmate of the Year, this year.”
Smith’s father looks completely stunned then gets emotional and holds Smith in a longing embrace.
“At the beginning it was great,” her brother Donnie Hogan recalled.
“You could tell she wanted a father figure in her life.”
“My father is not the jot down of guy you want to be alone with.
You’re not going to feel safe.
I mean he’s a monster.”
Hogan follows with an extremely unsettling story.
“I was about 16 when he told me a story about how he raped his wife’s sister.
He chased her down to a tree when his wife wasn’t around.
She was a child.”
If you or anyone you know has been a victim of sexual assault, help is available.
