Larry Birkhead with daughter Dannielynn

Ahead of E!'s special on the life Larry Birkhead and daughter Dannielynn face after Anna Nicole Smith's death, we got the chance to chat with Larry about the show, where he is in his life now with his daughter, and Anna Nicole.


What can you tell us about the 'Life After Anna Nicole' show?

The Special is full of a ton of emotion – happy, sad, funny, there’s something for everybody.
It deals with love and loss, and is a refreshing look into our lives and the life of Anna Nicole.
It is told in a different perspective which really hasn’t been done in the past.

What are some of your fondest memories of Anna Nicole?

How she was to other people – she was a charitable person.
I remember for seven days she went to a kids camps in Nebraska, none of the hair, make-up, jewellery and dresses, and spent time with kids who were impacted by HIV.
It still moves me to this day and I continue to work with the camp. It was a really touching thing.

Your daughter Dannielynn tries to match make in the show - does she want you to find love?

She has come up with a formula and thinks she can look on the internet and television and pick out a girl and says "that’s the one for you Dad".
We’ve been through Lady Gaga, Britney Spears and the list continues.
She is trying to fix me up and is being vocal about me being married so she can have a Mum of sorts.

Six years on from your custody battle - where are you at now?

We are in Kentucky where life is supposed to be great and to get away from Los Angeles and all the Hollywood craziness – however even though we are in Kentucky we have found there are some challenges with the dynamics of my family and the different things going on, so [that] makes for an interesting Special.

Is it difficult for you and your daughter to live a 'normal' life?

Here in Kentucky there is a difference – we don’t have paparazzi. There are people who are curious and ask for pictures.
There is also totally a different speed of life, more laid back, and you don’t have to be on guard.
Dannielynn goes to a public school and mixes with a lot of different kids. In the Special you will see she is living just an ordinary, normal life.

How will you handle Dannielynn growing older and finding out more about her mother?

I have always taken it day by day.
Everybody is worried that she will grow up find out the negative aspects about her Mum but there are a lot of good stories which haven’t been reported on and those are the kind of stories that I will tell her when she is older.
There will be a day when she will be able to Google and look up things and hear things.
I hope to prepare her that there are two sides of the story and take these stories as a cautionary tale and forewarn her about the consequences of her decisions and that’s the best I can do.

Where do you and your family go from here?

Good question – I still don’t know!
I wake up every day and there is always new drama and chaos.
There is never a day that my phone doesn’t ring - that has Anna Nicole’s name attached to it.
I need to put that all into perspective while still being a Dad and [in] some cases a Mum to Dannielynn.

What do you want to get out of the next few months, or years?

The next few months I want to spend some great holidays with Dannielynn and special moments.
In the future my plan is to be here for Dannielynn and be the soccer Dad/Mum for her - let her be a kid.
I try not to burden myself with what the future holds because I’m so busy doing things day by day so it would be a sensory overload.
I try to do the best I can day by day.


'Life After Anna Nicole: The Larry & Dannielynn Story' airs on Sunday 1 December at 10pm on E!


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