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  • Nancy Reagan lies in repose at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library where members of the public have been invited to pay their respects Thursday morning. Patti Davis, the daughter of the Ronald and Nancy Reagan, speaks to Maria Shriver for an exclusive interview on TODAY about honoring her late mother, the complicated relationships in their family, her regrets, and the peace they were able to find before her mother passed away.
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    Patti Davis: I ‘Feel Complete’ In Relationship With Mother Nancy Reagan | TODAY

Komentáře • 106

  • @wendiwonderly1419
    @wendiwonderly1419 Před 3 lety +14

    When my daughter was young she had to write a letter for a school project. We wrote a letter to Nancy Reagan telling her how much we admired her and her husband and we sent it to the Reagan library. We got a letter from Nancy saying how happy she was that my daughter and I had such a good relationship and could write this together. She said she wished she could have this with her own daughter. She treasured the relationship she had with her own parents. I’m glad that she and patti could finally have that

    • @richardmills1505
      @richardmills1505 Před 2 lety

      I found your story very touching. How wonderful that Mrs. Reagan took the time to respond and share the sentiments that she did. I really admire Nancy Reagan. Out of curiosity, do you still have the letter?

  • @kevinmasterson5733
    @kevinmasterson5733 Před 2 lety +3

    Love her honesty

  • @larciabella
    @larciabella Před 8 lety +14

    Patti made a choice for PEACE...........and that says it all!AMEN.

    • @oneseeker2
      @oneseeker2 Před 8 lety +5

      yes, and maybe Nancy as well... I think, as we age, we no longer have the energy to fight. Maybe they both realized the other's vulnerability and humanity, and chose compassion.

    • @larciabella
      @larciabella Před 8 lety +3

      +K Butler yes we put our energy elsewhere not in drama and we realize what a gift life is.

    • @oneseeker2
      @oneseeker2 Před 8 lety +2

      +larciabella well said! I write a Novel, you say it perfectly, in just a few words. ;).

    • @richardmills1505
      @richardmills1505 Před 2 lety +1

      I think it's to each ladies' enormous credit that they were both willing and able to come to some sort of accord and develop a relationship with mutual respect. Life is too short, especially when it's a parent-child dynamic. It's always better to resolve your differences as much as possible because you never know when you can lose someone.

    • @harrylazard805
      @harrylazard805 Před rokem

      More like a PIECE of the action at the expense of her parent's love for her....

  • @KendraEstherHamilton
    @KendraEstherHamilton Před 4 lety +5

    Sad that her and her brother hate America

  • @CarlosMartinez-lq4lu
    @CarlosMartinez-lq4lu Před 6 lety +18

    Glad that Patti's 15 minutes are up.

  • @tinebino
    @tinebino Před rokem +1

    What a beautiful interview

  • @cjh661
    @cjh661 Před 6 lety +30

    Nancy and Ronny were the type of people who shouldn't have ever had children. They only had enough love for one another and no one else.

    • @hankaustin7091
      @hankaustin7091 Před 6 lety +2

      How do you know? were you there? you don't know what 2 people have or haven't got unless you're one of them...

    • @travelseatsyellowlab
      @travelseatsyellowlab Před 4 lety +9

      @@hankaustin7091 Nearly all of the Reagan children were estranged from the parents and stepparents at some point, some for far longer periods than others. Patti is saying exactly what the poster said. The only one who managed to forge a consistent relationship was Maureen, and even her relationship with Ronald and Nancy Reagan seemed like it was one-sided and forced.

    • @richardmills1505
      @richardmills1505 Před 2 lety

      I get where you're going with that statement based solely on the perception and what Patti said in her books. However, I feel that I wasn't in either of their heads and didn't know them personally, so I couldn't make a sweeping judgment of that nature. I feel that both Nancy and Ronald loved their children, but I can see, to be fair, where perhaps the children took rather a backseat to their relationship and ambitions. Indeed, I do feel that if you're singularly focused on your partner, you probably shouldn't have children. Regardless, it's all conjecture and speculation because at the end of the day none of us really do know the truth. But I really don't judge either one of them. EVERY parent makes mistakes.

    • @harrylazard805
      @harrylazard805 Před rokem

      What a load of BS, you don't know what you're talking about...

  • @orathaifreby2287
    @orathaifreby2287 Před 5 lety

    Here Ranger Place in the USA just take care of yourself dear Thanks again sir

  • @brianlewis2763
    @brianlewis2763 Před 5 lety +3

    Patti Davis you are a darling. 🤗💞💌💐

  • @theangendeavor9910
    @theangendeavor9910 Před 11 měsíci +2

    I do not know if Ron Jr. and Patti will ever heal from being less important in their family. Less valued. Being with parents where no one else really matters that much must have been so lonely and actually borderline cruel. Dont have kids if you are not going to love them. You make wounded adults that way. then they cry out for help or attention...because secure loving attachment are how we form healthy relationships with ourselves and others.

  • @williamkelly8026
    @williamkelly8026 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I have a feeling she started to make peace in part so she wouldn't be cut out of the will.

  • @inekemateman273
    @inekemateman273 Před 8 lety +12

    The interviewer looks like a Kennedy?

    • @ninaraval302
      @ninaraval302 Před 8 lety +11

      +Ineke Mateman she is a Kennedy

    • @mt22201
      @mt22201 Před 8 lety +1

      Also famous for running for VP

    • @oneseeker2
      @oneseeker2 Před 8 lety +1

      yes, Kennedy/Shiver

    • @oneseeker2
      @oneseeker2 Před 8 lety

      I believe she divorced him, has not remarried him. Like the rest of us, she has aged.

    • @holdem5180
      @holdem5180 Před 8 lety

      daaaaa

  • @oneseeker2
    @oneseeker2 Před 8 lety +5

    Patti Davis has been my hero, for many years.

  • @darrellcriswell9919
    @darrellcriswell9919 Před 8 lety +16

    Trashy that she probed to find out why Ron wasn't there. None of anybody's business. Patti answered the question totally appropriately. How noisy can you get Maria--shames on you!

    • @raymondcurry2278
      @raymondcurry2278 Před 4 lety +1

      @John Smith and ALL the other nut case Kennedy relatives.

    • @harrylazard805
      @harrylazard805 Před rokem +1

      Patti wrote a book about it all for fame and money, no probing was needed with her....

  • @polasalavarrieta4115
    @polasalavarrieta4115 Před rokem +2

    Really Patti, I didn't like her then, still don't, think that they can write a book like that and later apologized, please.

  • @wendiwonderly1419
    @wendiwonderly1419 Před 3 lety +1

    Nancy Reagan did not dislike her children or her step children but Ronnie went through a period when he was badly over extended. He had two families to support. Nancy made sure whatever time and attention he had she got. That didn’t leave much room for the kids. Luckily they eventually turned out OK

    • @harrylazard805
      @harrylazard805 Před rokem

      BS, Reagan had a troubled childhood and found being emotionally close to his children a hard thing. It didn't mean he loved them any less than any other father. Most children understand this distance but Nancy's kids with him found a way to capitalize on this to make points with their liberal friends....

  • @hankaustin7091
    @hankaustin7091 Před 6 lety +8

    My GOD what happened to her face!?!??!!?? Patti DEAR.. you need to sue whatever doctors ruined your once gorgeous face!

    • @variousJnames
      @variousJnames Před 4 lety

      @Hank Austin looks surprisingly like a cadaver. Just like her Mama!

  • @kallyanighoshkallyanighosh8399

    Sisters Where is my video tapes with All of u?

  • @martinpascoe5904
    @martinpascoe5904 Před 3 měsíci

    'a different lens' Oh please

  • @davidhickey1972
    @davidhickey1972 Před 3 lety

    wow just like end respesct your Mum

  • @geewheeler04
    @geewheeler04 Před 2 lety +1

    Nancy got to have a love most people can't even imagine having. Your kids spend their lives growing away from you and then leaving you for good after 18 yrs but your husband is there for the 30-40yrs of your life. The parents should put their relationship first. You still love your kids but not above your husband.

    • @harrylazard805
      @harrylazard805 Před rokem

      Most people don't have to make that choice. The Reagans were famous conservatives with the kids from his second marriage being Hollywood liberals. Stabbing their parents in the back to get points from their liberal friends was easy for them....

    • @LucyQ-ew6zp
      @LucyQ-ew6zp Před 9 měsíci

      How about loving everyone the same way? That would be the best thing, and the kids wouldn't feel invisible because their parents love each other. And also, parents usually love their kids more than anything.

  • @science-not-scientists3876
    @science-not-scientists3876 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Patti is a staunch democrat. Keep that in mind.

  • @martinpascoe5904
    @martinpascoe5904 Před 3 měsíci +1

    oh so NOW shes got regrets......

  • @jackanthony976
    @jackanthony976 Před 4 lety +1

    This interview tells us nothing. No details about what caused the problems between Patti and her mother.

    • @travelseatsyellowlab
      @travelseatsyellowlab Před 4 lety

      Patti and Nancy both wrote memoirs which describes their difficulties in detail, I encourage you to read them. Clearly Patti was in grief and did not care to rehash the problems she had with her parents, not publicly at least. I respect that.

  • @tracyskitchenandappalachia2954

    Parenting is hard. 🙄🙄

    • @LucyQ-ew6zp
      @LucyQ-ew6zp Před 9 měsíci

      I know, but that's not an excuse to be a bad parent. I'm not saying Nancy Reagan was a bad parent, but that some people are and use the excuse that "I know I'm not perfect, but I'm doing my best", which would be true and okay if they worked through their flaws, but not if they refuse too.

    • @tracyskitchenandappalachia2954
      @tracyskitchenandappalachia2954 Před 9 měsíci

      @@LucyQ-ew6zp I know of instances where that is true. Thx for commenting 🙂🇺🇸

  • @oneseeker2
    @oneseeker2 Před 8 lety +1

    This appears more than botox, I don't know. I always found her attractive, naturally. Still, she is the same person, and this was her choice, not my business, I have no criticism for her. She is her own person, an individual, a sentient being, and her business is her business. If we focus on s3lf, we are far nicer folks.

  • @llkkjgg9732
    @llkkjgg9732 Před 8 lety +10

    two people not aging well

    • @travelseatsyellowlab
      @travelseatsyellowlab Před 5 lety +4

      These aging daughters of scions are in their sixties. No one stays young forever. If you do, you're dead.

  • @jacquevino9664
    @jacquevino9664 Před 6 lety +16

    Always felt bad for all the Reagan kids. They were lousy parents.

    • @briankelly9347
      @briankelly9347 Před 5 lety

      U getting blocked

    • @FervAnimalLover
      @FervAnimalLover Před 11 měsíci +1

      Families are complicated. You as everyone else don't know the whole story.

  • @bradmoyse6162
    @bradmoyse6162 Před 6 lety +5

    That skeleton with teeth should give up being a "reporter" Patti seems classy and nice.

  • @ginadillon2072
    @ginadillon2072 Před 6 lety +6

    Maria Shriver makes me sick. Patti Davis did what she had to do and people raked her in the media. She seems like a very nice and positive woman. Maria Shriver gross!

  • @user-mj8nf2vp7q
    @user-mj8nf2vp7q Před 6 lety +3

    SMH...poor thing, she's beginning to look like Eunice...and Sargent...and Rose.

    • @travelseatsyellowlab
      @travelseatsyellowlab Před 5 lety +2

      At nearly 64 years of age, she isn't a spring chicken, so it's no surprise she's resembling her late relatives.

    • @user-mj8nf2vp7q
      @user-mj8nf2vp7q Před 3 lety

      @@travelseatsyellowlab ...For better, or worse.

    • @wendiwonderly1419
      @wendiwonderly1419 Před 3 lety

      The older Maria gets the more she looks like rose. That’s a compliment. Jane Fonda’s son looks like Henry Fonda. Also carlene carter is starting to look like mother Mabel. Katie Cassidy the actress looks like jack. Paul McCartneys grandson Arthur looks like him. That’s not surprising because his mother Mary was the one who looked like Paul The others were blondes like linda

    • @user-mj8nf2vp7q
      @user-mj8nf2vp7q Před 3 lety +1

      @@wendiwonderly1419 ...Not meant as a complement at all. God bless her, but Rose Kennedy was one more ugly child, & so was Eunice.

  • @vsa9540
    @vsa9540 Před 8 lety +7

    Two great women; queen of botox at age 60.

    • @stevenpatrickstone766
      @stevenpatrickstone766 Před 8 lety

      +V Sa .....born in 1952 she'll be 64 this year

    • @holdem5180
      @holdem5180 Před 8 lety +2

      why would you even care what they do , you might wanna look in a mirror at that ugly face of yours....

  • @user-mj8nf2vp7q
    @user-mj8nf2vp7q Před 6 lety +6

    The Reagan's had some...odd looking children.

  • @sybillenova1465
    @sybillenova1465 Před 3 lety

    Patti Davis has l i e d about her stepfather. .too terrible to discuss at this point in American history...

    • @mxp5525
      @mxp5525 Před rokem

      Reagan was her father. Nancy downplayed that girls LIFE bc her parents were pregnant when they got married and that was a big no-no back then. Plus there wasn't reliable birth control and that pregnancy/child threatened to ruin both of their Hollywood careers.
      Think about what you're saying...

    • @piustwelfth
      @piustwelfth Před 11 měsíci +1

      Ronald Reagan was Patti's biological father -- not her stepfather.

  • @wendiwonderly1419
    @wendiwonderly1419 Před 3 lety +3

    I remember when patti wrote that god awful mama hit me with the hairbrush book. She should have had my parents. Whatever she got she probably deserved

  • @jdwinks40
    @jdwinks40 Před 2 lety +1

    #NancyReaganThroatGoat

  • @anncarter2881
    @anncarter2881 Před 5 lety +5

    Patti and Ron were and are spoiled brats and she was an awful daughter and Ron and awful son. How i saw it through the years.

    • @variousJnames
      @variousJnames Před 4 lety +8

      @Ann Carter Were you there? I highly doubt it

  • @JoshuaFazeli
    @JoshuaFazeli Před 5 lety

    The worst.