Charles Manson follower Dianne Lake tells her story | SVT/TV 2/Skavlan

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  • Опубликовано: 15 дек 2019
  • Dianne Lake began following notorious cult leader Charles Manson when she was a young teenager. Hear her story in Scandinavian talk show Skavlan.
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  • @2intriguing1
    @2intriguing1 2 года назад +43

    Her parents were utterly disgusting and subjected her to all that nonsense and trauma. Glad she turned out and on him

    • @christyt4249
      @christyt4249 Год назад +3

      Dianne has mentioned her mom apologizing when she was older and that she forgave her. She is better person than me!! No way would I wanna be around either of her parents if I were her. And how convenient to apologize when you’re getting old and gonna need a caregiver. Unbelievable!!

  • @giapuffs
    @giapuffs 9 месяцев назад +5

    I feel bad for her. She was failed by her parents, and what Manson did to her was horrendous.

  • @walcoman
    @walcoman 4 года назад +37

    Genius job of parenting, give your adolescent 14 yr old daughter hard drugs and weed, then let her run wild, and be analyzed by a scumbag murderer twice her age, some humans do not deserve to procreate.

  • @dianewinnicki8115
    @dianewinnicki8115 2 года назад +16

    Her parents should have been jailed for child abuse. they were unfit parents. this is sickening.

  • @MG-cd9ek
    @MG-cd9ek 2 года назад +34

    I feel sorry for this one. The others I don't. This was literally a child. Her mom and dad didn't want her. She is sincerely one of the kindest sincere out of all of them horrific people. Gypsy was OK too. But Diane is sincerely honest and sweet. She is so lovely and dignified

  • @susangavaghan
    @susangavaghan 9 месяцев назад +6

    I am so glad this woman came through this terrible ordeal at such a young age; she certainly did her part when she testified against them. Sociopaths are extremely good at drawing people in with a fake persona, then soon their real personalities emerge. Her parents have a lot to answer for.

  • @Gen-yh1jz
    @Gen-yh1jz 4 года назад +121

    How brave she was to testify against Manson. He molested and beat her
    when she was only a 14 year old child. She was able to get help and now she
    is an upstanding citizen with her own family. Manson was evil.

    • @boogitybear2283
      @boogitybear2283 2 года назад +8

      Yet she goes right back to that scenery and I feel zero sympathy for her.

    • @marioarguello6989
      @marioarguello6989 Год назад

      She's an incredible hero, I bet bullets just bounce off her.

    • @davidgolden1726
      @davidgolden1726 Год назад

      She was such a ho she got kicked out of other communes before she even met Manson !
      She's a snake !

    • @rca6576
      @rca6576 Год назад +9

      @@boogitybear2283 Why shouldn't she revisit that place if she feels strong enough to? She did NOT participate in any murders. The show asked her to go.

    • @walcoman
      @walcoman Год назад

      Actually, he was and will always be the definition of complete and evil narcissistic megalomania. Trump displays the same character flaws exactly, everything except for being a skinny little long-haired hippie on acid that did unspeakable things at will to very underaged and vulnerable little girls and probably boys as well, and I hate to even think it? Maybe infants. But Trump definitely, and it's documented, directed a group of his brain dead sheep followers to murder.

  • @sa-iw4dr
    @sa-iw4dr 4 года назад +119

    Skavlan did a good job interview he doesn't interrupt or over talk her. Glad she helped the prosecution!

  • @Ralph_Smith0724
    @Ralph_Smith0724 4 года назад +48

    *Skavlan is an excellent interviewer. He lets the interviewee talk without interrupting.*

  • @Djlovesdinos124
    @Djlovesdinos124 2 года назад +25

    her book was absolutely amazing! by far one of my favorites.

    • @larciabella
      @larciabella Год назад +1

      what is it called?

    • @Themin1
      @Themin1 Год назад

      @@larciabella Member of the Family - Dianne Lake - best Manson type book to date. I have read numerous books.

  • @elizabethblane201
    @elizabethblane201 4 года назад +103

    With parents like hers, one doesn't need bad friends.

    • @fajrsahar157
      @fajrsahar157 3 года назад +7

      You don't know my toxic parents. They were of the worst.

    • @zampieritto
      @zampieritto 3 года назад +1

      @@fajrsahar157 my parents too. They got married too old, they were like my grandparents

    • @fajrsahar157
      @fajrsahar157 3 года назад

      @@zampieritto I'd rather have your parents. Mine were evil.

    • @Jay-vr9ir
      @Jay-vr9ir 2 года назад +12

      So many , too many ,people should not have children .

    • @dana_brooke_27
      @dana_brooke_27 2 года назад +3

      @@fajrsahar157 My father.. I hope he's suffering in hell! Best part of my life is when he left and finally disappeared after a few years of harassment. The damage some parents do is horrific. It never goes away. It effects every child different. Even coming from the same house. The memories and feelings are forever.
      🔥👹🔥

  • @nassauguy48
    @nassauguy48 Год назад +13

    Unlike most of the Manson women, she was truly a victim. Thirteen years old at the time of her induction, she was singled out by Manson for physical beatings for some crazy reason that only Manson could conjure up. Still only fourteen at the time of the murders, she took it upon herself to abandon the group, a courageous task given what would have happened to her had she been caught. What she did with her life afterward is truly a testimony to her virtue.

  • @Booboonancy
    @Booboonancy Год назад +17

    I was a teenager in the early 70’s and I read everything I could on the Manson family. I thought I knew a lot about them but I don’t remember ever reading/hearing this woman’s name. What a horror story that was. For a child who grew up in a dysfunctional home, ending up in this “family”, it is a testament to her strength that she survived and made a life for herself. Good for her.

    • @dathorndike4908
      @dathorndike4908 Год назад +2

      Dude- she was a major part of "The Family". If I recall she and Bobby Beausoleil were an item. If I recall it was Bobby who brought her to the Family in the first place.

    • @Booboonancy
      @Booboonancy Год назад

      @@dathorndike4908 Ok, thanks. I remember Beausoleil for sure but not her. Was she involved at all in any of the murders ?

    • @christyt4249
      @christyt4249 Год назад +2

      You probably have heard of her by her nickname, Snake. That is what everyone in the family called her. And there were a number of years where nobody knew what had happened to her. It wasn’t that long ago that she came forward. I remember being on a page where they are great about finding info about the past family members and even post recent pictures. And they had a picture of her from some event. Thinking maybe it was a wedding. And at that point her whereabouts and life were pretty much unknown. So seeing that picture was interesting. It wasn’t too long after that she came forward.
      There are some others that I would love to know how their lives turned out (Ruthann and Mary to name two). But I don’t look for them to ever come forward.
      And FYI- Bobby didn’t bring her into the group. The person above me did not get that right. Her parents had pretty much abandoned her and she got with the family. Family member, Paul Watkins, always had a big thing for her. He talks about her quite a bit in his own book (which is a good book).

    • @Booboonancy
      @Booboonancy Год назад +1

      @@christyt4249 Thanks for the info and, no, Snake doesn’t ring a bell either 🥴 but I clearly remember Mary Brunner and Ruth Ann Morehouse ( wasn’t her dad a minister ? ).

    • @christyt4249
      @christyt4249 Год назад

      @@Booboonancy Yes a “minister” and an all around creep!!

  • @sluzardo5879
    @sluzardo5879 Год назад +6

    Don't feel guilt or shame....Feel Pride..... You overcame it and probably have a wonderful Family life....

  • @debmainas
    @debmainas 4 года назад +126

    She is very honest with herself.

    • @evancoker8945
      @evancoker8945 2 года назад

      Yes. You have summed it up. I was around then.

    • @davidterry919
      @davidterry919 2 года назад

      She is supposed to be

  • @Tracey..H
    @Tracey..H 2 года назад +8

    She turned out fabulous considering! Excellent interview!

  • @mariealexander9545
    @mariealexander9545 3 года назад +18

    you all should read her book "Member of the family 'it goes into detail about every thing

  • @SL-vi4tk
    @SL-vi4tk 3 года назад +12

    Dianne tells her story the exact same way the many, many times I've heard it.

  • @cathygiuliana9089
    @cathygiuliana9089 2 года назад +15

    Been following Manson murders for about a year now! I was 17 when it all happened. Loved this interview with Diane Lake. So happy to see something positive happen out of those nightmarish memories of the late sixties! Well done interview!

  • @truethat8503
    @truethat8503 4 года назад +46

    Amazing how a person can change she looks like your typical grandmother baking brownies that sort of thing who would have guessed

    • @zampieritto
      @zampieritto 3 года назад

      As she told her parents were a sort of beatnik /hippie. Anyway, most of the children of the hippies turned in on the opposite of their hippie parents. Not drop out, they was fighting to drop in.

    • @terry4137
      @terry4137 2 года назад +1

      @@awesomeone2979, wth?

    • @terry4137
      @terry4137 2 года назад +2

      It’s called age fool you’ll be old too if you live and look like a grandma too! Won’t take long...

    • @jyotikumar1898
      @jyotikumar1898 Год назад

      People age.

  • @gobnaitaine2791
    @gobnaitaine2791 4 года назад +87

    This is one of the best talk shows, great guests, great presenter, great discussions.

    • @SkavlanTV
      @SkavlanTV  4 года назад +8

      Thank you so much, we appreciate it!

  • @StripperLicker
    @StripperLicker 4 года назад +112

    I have studied the Manson Family from the beginning, as I was alive and read the headlines of Sharon Tate's murder right when it happened. This is one of the *best interviews* I have seen of anyone associated with Manson. Nice work!

    • @rdickinsondickinson
      @rdickinsondickinson 4 года назад +8

      I was 16 in 69

    • @marksark1119
      @marksark1119 4 года назад +9

      I was 14 in '69. Same age as Diane.

    • @michaelhurtado4400
      @michaelhurtado4400 4 года назад +14

      It appears we have another thing in common. I have also done research on Manson, the Family, the times, the beliefs, and society's views. I was one years old at the time. I remember when the TV movie Helter Skelter came out in (1977/78?), scared the shit out of me. Since then I always followed interviews, books, movies, etc!
      This may be one of the reasons I became a Forensic Psychologist?

    • @nikkibest5010
      @nikkibest5010 3 года назад +8

      Her book was very interesting. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it.

    • @dana_brooke_27
      @dana_brooke_27 2 года назад +4

      @@michaelhurtado4400 I was 8yrs old when this happened. I too saw the movie. The guy looked just like him. Scared the shit out of me too. I remember when it happened. 19yrs later to the day ... My daughter was born. Of all days.. Why that day? I kept hoping I wouldn't have her on August 9th. The whole thing just bothered me so much through the years.

  • @jaclinecarter6133
    @jaclinecarter6133 3 года назад +11

    He turned delusional " in a way"?! He was COMPLETELY DELUSIONAL!

    • @jcrocks6698
      @jcrocks6698 Год назад

      Well, her point is that most of that was completely an act. So, yes. In a way, he was delusional. In another way, he knew exactly what he was doing.

  • @sueknoll8567
    @sueknoll8567 2 года назад +30

    She is a walking miracle, from an neglected absolutely insane living environment as a child then into an abusive cult, she has lived a normal mainstream life surrounded by love and family

    • @walcoman
      @walcoman Год назад

      Doesn't it just Boggle the mind that some people that truly have no God given right to procreate usually are the ones that breed like rabbits with absolutely no concern or common sense of the innocent life they gave birth to?

  • @alice5515
    @alice5515 4 года назад +29

    Found this channel (via Australia) through the Hannah Gatsby interview. What a refreshing format of chat...have enjoyed watching many since

    • @SkavlanTV
      @SkavlanTV  4 года назад +2

      Thank you so much, Holly! We appreciate it!

    • @harrynac6017
      @harrynac6017 3 года назад

      Thanks for the tip. I didn't know he interviewed her :)

  • @petmomful2260
    @petmomful2260 4 года назад +32

    I read this lady's book and it was really really interesting. I highly recommend it.

  • @EM-gn9rp
    @EM-gn9rp 4 года назад +18

    Wow, she went through some heavy s@&t. Good her life changed for the better. Time heals all wounds.

    • @DennisMoore664
      @DennisMoore664 4 года назад +5

      No it doesn't - you just get used to living with the pain.

    • @halbunner9833
      @halbunner9833 3 года назад

      But the scars remain.

  • @debbiecalifornia138
    @debbiecalifornia138 4 года назад +41

    In reading the comments, it’s easy to see how judgmental some of you are. You’re judging by how things are TODAY. Not only were there no mass shootings then, there were really none of the horrors that the past 30 years have shown us. This woman was VERY brave to not only testify at the trial, but she’s come forward to share this history with us. Life was VERY VERY different in the 60’s! I’m very happy that I was able to experience at least a bit of it! ✌🏼

    • @brianhammer5107
      @brianhammer5107 3 года назад +5

      Are you high, or something? No mass shootings??? - you remember there was a WAR on in Viet-Nam? The Cultural Revolution was going on in Red China under Mao's direction that killed millions?

    • @debbiecalifornia138
      @debbiecalifornia138 3 года назад +5

      Brian Hammer You’re obviously missing the point. If you can’t understand what I SAID v what you’re asserting I surely cannot help you....🤷‍♀️

    • @brianhammer5107
      @brianhammer5107 3 года назад +2

      @@debbiecalifornia138 Smart-ass attempt at a CYA. I know verbatim what you said, and responded accordingly. Just suck it up. You were WRONG. I was a teenager when the Manson thing went down - I know exactly how those times were. Remember the Watts riots? How about the Red Brigades blowing up children in Italy in '68, '69, '70? And this was just a generation after the bloodiest event in history. Sorry, sweetcheeks, your crap doesn't fly.

    • @ez4me2sa
      @ez4me2sa 3 года назад +4

      Brian Hammer Wow..you absolutely did not comprehend what she just stated. I grew up during the Manson years. Todays mass RANDOM public shootings cannot be compared to the WARS that were going on during that time, in Vietnam or the turmoil in Watts and Detroit. So, fuck off moron, you're WRONG.

    • @sharoncrawford1975
      @sharoncrawford1975 11 месяцев назад

      I'm 50 I can attest to how times were in the 70s. I was born in 72 and I can remember far back as maybe 3. I can remember changing my brother's diaper. When I was a child I can remember how it was at age 5. My dad drank alcohol like a fish my mom had nervous breakdowns and at that time there was no help for "battered women" nor many places for AA. There were state hospitals the police would pick you if you were walking around drunk or high. My cousin was involved with "ppl like she was" and I'm going to leave it as this she isn't here today to talk about her past like this woman is blessed to be today. In that time frame and era of time serial killers were out on the loose and it was just an awful time where drugs and crime was gruesome and it was very scary to walk to school then and in my neighborhood and school didn't have a school bus for my area. The time then was different as if is today. I still wear the scars from my childhood from things that happened as a child so I can only imagine what this girl went through.

  • @imkereistappert3183
    @imkereistappert3183 4 года назад +12

    Very interesting. Glad she made it well out of it all. Must have been such a different time...

  • @marxmovies6607
    @marxmovies6607 4 года назад +41

    I love Skavlan

    • @nikkison973
      @nikkison973 4 года назад +4

      He has such good interview style!

  • @tm13tube
    @tm13tube 4 года назад +22

    I love his questions. I found him following Angelina Jordan and stayed because he is so interesting. His questions are so interesting. He is right. "interesting conversations."

    • @SkavlanTV
      @SkavlanTV  4 года назад +1

      Thank you for that - we appreciate it!

  • @paticakoos1
    @paticakoos1 4 года назад +50

    she was looking for a family, She never really had one, ripe for the picking

  • @gingerbaker4390
    @gingerbaker4390 2 года назад +14

    I wonder what the parents must've felt after they found out about the murders and her being part of all that. ?

    • @merrillolen9555
      @merrillolen9555 2 года назад +6

      Except she wasn't part of it.

    • @lynncarol606
      @lynncarol606 2 года назад +1

      She had nothing to do with the murders. This is how rumors are spread. Our main stream media do it on a regular basis. All you need is one uninformed person, or someone who intentionally wants to spread a false narrative, then it snowballs into what other, uninformed people, believe to be their “truth.”

    • @jcrocks6698
      @jcrocks6698 Год назад +2

      The state determined them unfit for her to return. I wonder whether they cared. They set her up for everything that happened to her.

  • @rexjohnson5802
    @rexjohnson5802 4 года назад +7

    Very well done interview... both of you! And you did not dwell on the negative... The Barker Ranch was my home as a child in the mid-1950's... I was shocked when I saw the photos in life magazine!! Anyway, congratulations!

  • @reidx512
    @reidx512 3 года назад +15

    THIS IS A GREAT INTERVIEW. WHAT A BLESSING THE LORD TRANSFORMED HER LIFE AND THAT SHE ENDED UP WITH GREAT GUIDANCE. THIS IS BY FAR ONE OF THE BEST INTERVIEWS I HAVE EVER SEEN. I AM A SOCIAL WORKER AND DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS, I HAVE SEEN THOUSANDS OF HOURS WATCHING INTERVIEWS, THIS IS KIND, GENTLE, AND ALMOST HONORABLE. VERY GOOD, SORRY FOR THE CAPS I HAVE MS...

    • @SkavlanTV
      @SkavlanTV  3 года назад +1

      Thanks for that, Reid! We're so glad to hear that you liked our interview with Dianne Lake.

  • @kerrylord2576
    @kerrylord2576 4 года назад +28

    Including myself we have to stop being interested in this man so he can be dead dead dead !

    • @marksark1119
      @marksark1119 4 года назад

      kerry, does seem overdone like Hitler on History Channel.

    • @EastSide-qc5oy
      @EastSide-qc5oy 4 года назад

      @kerry Lord Interest in those crimes and the people involved will likely not die out for a long time. Eventually there will be no one alive on earth who was around during those times (including those in the media), and all the relatives of the victims and the criminals themselves will have passed on... Until then, interest in what happened will probably be with us.

    • @kerrylord2576
      @kerrylord2576 4 года назад +2

      @Carpe and all the rest i didnt watch it ,i am guilty of being interested ,it just came to me so i wrote the comment down.

    • @kerrylord2576
      @kerrylord2576 4 года назад

      @S cell why am i a lying twat?

    • @Jdat1212
      @Jdat1212 4 года назад

      1027 EastSide I can’t agree more.

  • @naturegirl9680
    @naturegirl9680 4 года назад +6

    Great interview thank you

  • @jasonlmeadows
    @jasonlmeadows 2 года назад +8

    Just finished reading her book “A member of the family” and it is a very good read. Her story is amazing.

    • @cazpk6840
      @cazpk6840 Год назад

      Thank You - i will look for it.

    • @jyotikumar1898
      @jyotikumar1898 Год назад

      I got bored with it when she found Jayayasus.

  • @ramdaryanani8614
    @ramdaryanani8614 4 года назад +7

    best bit is presenter's face. mouth open , unbelievable look.

  • @rubydawn1
    @rubydawn1 3 года назад +12

    Dianne is amazing thank God she survived to tell what she saw. I admire her so much

  • @SassyBratt1
    @SassyBratt1 4 года назад +15

    She is very likable and fascinating to listen to.

    • @Brancaalice
      @Brancaalice 10 месяцев назад

      Still, she carry something strange in her, I dont know explain. She is not so normal. Maybe is the trauma.

  • @marjoriedickinson380
    @marjoriedickinson380 4 года назад +6

    Yes she is very honest and sincere she made good from a bad situation... happy she has a loving supportive family .... yup Charlie was a master manipulator but given his early live it was his dysfunctional way to survive .... sadly

  • @dianesilva1078
    @dianesilva1078 2 года назад +3

    Charles Manson was an inadequate punk on a power trip.

  • @charlesincharge3404
    @charlesincharge3404 4 года назад +10

    "That's how we do it in prison". Yikes, remind me to never go to prison.

    • @charlenejohnson309
      @charlenejohnson309 Год назад

      @@awesomeone2979 Rape should never be equated with consensual sexual experimentation. Here's hoping you never experience the former. Not a cool response to this woman's teenage trauma.

    • @wanderer299a
      @wanderer299a Год назад +1

      You wouldn't be in charge in the showers, Charles...

  • @slaws2279
    @slaws2279 2 года назад +4

    I’m so glad she had/has the courage to share her story. I could see how a younger woman could be charmed by an older, supposedly charismatic man like Manson-someone who seemed to know what he was talking about but who really was just good at spewing bullshi*. But killing someone for the guy? Nope. I can’t understand that.

    • @lumenpierce8583
      @lumenpierce8583 Год назад

      Millions of people have killed others in the name of Christ (and other prophets). Pretty much the same thing. You just don’t know what you would have done in a different time and under different circumstances.

  • @peaceandlove544
    @peaceandlove544 4 года назад +6

    Like this tv show, he is smart and respectfull and very professional, greetings from Mexico

  • @evelynbaron2004
    @evelynbaron2004 4 года назад +5

    PS Perhaps this brings things into context a little better; I live in a seniors building in Canada and don't lock my door. 2 yrs ago 2 guys destroyed my flat and killed my cat, because they could. Now I lock my door. They were never caught. one in a million chances that this would happen and I know that. Charles Manson thought he was Bob Dylan; would be intererested in what Patti Smith would have to say to this woman whom I am obviously banishing from my world in my mind; she was brave to speak on this show and it is so hard to honour that.

    • @winterweib
      @winterweib 4 года назад +4

      I am complete shocked. It broke my heart what happened to you and your little helpless one.
      I would love to write much much more, but do not want to speak much,;since I think it makes you sad again (more than you of course are).
      I would love to be near to you, and I hope you have indeed people you love. You are so young, why are you in a - I forgot the nglosh name; a home for retired ones?
      I am only a few years younger than you, am ill and my sister and her sweetie want to do this to me, too,;but I can't.
      My tomcat was stolen. He was chipped and tattooed. I am afraid what happened to him, he was so sweet and trustful.
      Anyway: I wished this cruelty would never had happen to you two.
      Hugs from Berlin in Germany to you, dear

  • @dontalkt2meboutheros
    @dontalkt2meboutheros 4 года назад +8

    She is a very brave woman.

  • @cho7879
    @cho7879 4 года назад +57

    in no way I intend to disrespect her trauma, but the fact that she still refers to him as "charlie" this familiar and affectionate nickname, it's so wild to hear as an outsider it gives you the chills

    • @DennisMoore664
      @DennisMoore664 4 года назад +25

      I see a lot of people talking about how brave she is. Maybe in some ways, but I see someone who is still at least in part romanticizing Manson and her experience with The Family. Let the hate commence.

    • @cho7879
      @cho7879 4 года назад +16

      @@DennisMoore664 I don't think they deserve "hate" unless the have committed actually harmful crimes, they are a bunch of ill abuse victims. trauma is *very* complex, their whole life context affects not only how they found themselves in that place but how they are able to recover and heal from what it was done to them; in her case at such an early, impressionable and formative age

    • @DennisMoore664
      @DennisMoore664 4 года назад +5

      @@cho7879 The hate I was referring to would be people telling me I'm a heartless bastard for not supporting her 100% and denying that she was somehow brave for surviving the Manson experience.
      Sad that the first person to complain was the OP. Thanks for that.

    • @cho7879
      @cho7879 4 года назад +2

      @@DennisMoore664 and I meant that she is literally not able to romanticize her situation because she lives in it. the problem is everybody else who are the ones romanticizing it and or abandoning and further hurting this people cause of straight up ableism. life is just not that black and white, I never called her brave for living her life and never called you a heartless bastard, I'm sorry for miss reading your comment if that offended you.

    • @DennisMoore664
      @DennisMoore664 4 года назад +2

      @@cho7879 That was two months ago - I was so not offended that I'd completely forgotten about this lol. Much bigger problems for us these days. Stay healthy my friends!

  • @sherryirbvin7448
    @sherryirbvin7448 2 года назад

    Great interview

  • @ruthknolla2674
    @ruthknolla2674 9 месяцев назад

    Just read her book. What she went thru at 14 years of age was horrendous. Congratulations Diane for surviving and thriving. God Bless.

  • @dawnsparling6226
    @dawnsparling6226 4 года назад +9

    I'm very impressed with this Skavlan interview. Subscribing immediately.

  • @francescabento1705
    @francescabento1705 4 года назад +6

    I was sixteen it shocked me then and now. I think they didn't know what they were doing the drugs do that.

  • @madtrapper9914
    @madtrapper9914 4 года назад +6

    Times were sure different 50+ years ago.

    • @carlomure
      @carlomure 3 года назад +1

      not worst than now

  • @johnnytoobad7785
    @johnnytoobad7785 2 года назад +7

    She wrote one of the best books that really explain the "hippie culture" and the "Manson Family" from a young girls perspective.

  • @santbr
    @santbr 3 года назад +6

    She had awful parents! What a shame

  • @greenbeans575
    @greenbeans575 10 месяцев назад

    Dianne, I would love to give you the biggest hug! Thank you for sharing your experiences and bless you always! ❤

  • @entropyregen7438
    @entropyregen7438 4 года назад +26

    She was so young when this happened. I feel sorry 😐 for her. She was way too young to be on her own.

    • @snapmalloy5556
      @snapmalloy5556 3 года назад

      She still shouldn't be profiting from the murders. It's slimy.
      If she was remorseful and wanted it behind her she would let it be behind her and bury it.
      Nope, she wants to profit from murder. The murders by a group in which she was a part. It disgust me. She should be persona non grata the rest of her life

    • @daniellamcgee4251
      @daniellamcgee4251 2 года назад +2

      @@snapmalloy5556 Her experiences help people understand cults and brain washing, especially in the case of minors. This is not only cathartic and healing for her, but is useful for professionals who work with survivors. Others who would benefit are people whose loved ones have been brainwashed. People can also learn to see warning signs to avoid other situations like this. By sharing her story, something that could potentially benefit millions is a huge positive coming out of something so tragic.

    • @snapmalloy5556
      @snapmalloy5556 2 года назад

      @@daniellamcgee4251
      I wonder how much of the proceeds from her book went to organizations like Safe Passage or FACT.
      Or did her cathartic venture all go in her pocket?

    • @daniellamcgee4251
      @daniellamcgee4251 2 года назад +1

      @@snapmalloy5556 I have no idea about her earnings and donations. She may have needed money. Her experience in a cult may have made it difficult to work. I don't know. This makes no difference. She is completely entitled to make money from her own work, just like anyone else. Writing books is hard work. Outing oneself about a part of life that is linked with deep shame, and reliving trauma, and being painfully honest with herself is way more difficult than writing something impersonal. She has made herself vulnerable to hate, discrimination, potentially the end of family, social ,work and other relationships. She risked everything, and had everything to lose by sharing her story, with honesty that doesn't do her any favors. The most important part is the education that she can provide that could save innumerable lives, and that is priceless. Her story is more valuable than any financial donation. By focusing on the money, you are missing the point.

    • @snapmalloy5556
      @snapmalloy5556 2 года назад

      @@daniellamcgee4251
      I'm not missing anything.
      Our points are diametrically opposed. You say she did for a reason. I say she is did it for another reason. For cash and notoriety. She is using a tragedy of innocent deaths to make monetary gain....And I see no proof that she has aided real organizations that work with those brainwashed by cults.
      I named a few. I can find nothing where she has helped anyone but herself

  • @yoyanyo
    @yoyanyo 4 года назад +6

    So sad when everybody's getting old

  • @thunderousapplause
    @thunderousapplause 2 года назад +4

    ..was manson unconsciously trying to get Diane to leave so she’d be safe from him?

    • @tracybogle7483
      @tracybogle7483 Год назад +1

      More like so he would be safe. She was the youngest of the girls, jail bait. Im sure he was trying to avoid that.

  • @Jaisee14
    @Jaisee14 2 года назад

    I have no words.

  • @johnnynobuddy1
    @johnnynobuddy1 3 года назад +4

    I really enjoyed her book.

  • @viyau
    @viyau 3 года назад +2

    Very interesting

  • @maryshaffer8474
    @maryshaffer8474 4 года назад +6

    She totally rejected the culture of her parents and raised her family in contrast.

    • @daniellamcgee4251
      @daniellamcgee4251 2 года назад +2

      Yes! In psychology terminology this is known as 'concious parenting'. She actively chose to take responsibility and stop the neglect and drug abuse going beyond her generation to give her children a much better start in life, instead of repeating what she knew best. That takes self awareness, self honesty, a heck of lot of personal development work, resilience and dedication to her children. Sometimes people, including our parents, can be anti- role models.

  • @ericdodson2644
    @ericdodson2644 3 года назад +6

    This interviewer is better in his *second* language than practically all others are in their first. Amazing.

  • @checkyourhead9
    @checkyourhead9 4 года назад +7

    This gives a little insight into how he got these girls to follow him.
    Thank you so much for your honesty diane.
    P.s. kerouac and Hunter Thompson are my favorite authors and ive been the biggest beatles fan since i was like 2

  • @cherilynlarsen8104
    @cherilynlarsen8104 4 года назад +13

    The 1960s and 1970s: everyone lost their minds and common sense. Or at least in California. Not surprising to me that her parents introduced her to drugs. That happened a lot.

    • @taraniso
      @taraniso 4 года назад +1

      You can't blame California. Many followers were runaways from other parts of the U.S.
      Remember, Texas had David Koresh.

    • @dianasimms1810
      @dianasimms1810 4 года назад +4

      I lived in Montreal and everyone was crazy, irresponsible, self indulgent, people, especially where children were concerned. Movie called The Ice Storm, captures the period well.

    • @pparalaxx3014
      @pparalaxx3014 2 года назад

      @Terra what is that ?

    • @kennethlatham3133
      @kennethlatham3133 2 года назад

      @@taraniso You can, now. Also, Oregon.

    • @melissak8419
      @melissak8419 2 года назад

      yes and Manson was from cincinnati, ohio/ midwest. A lot of the girls were from California though. Her statement that the other commune she tried to go to would not accept her because she was "jailbait"/ underage. The cycle is repeating itself, though it seems, and many of these followers are still alive in prison, trying to get paroled, when they were sentenced to death. There are literally people looking for loopholes in the law, old age, other reasons to release these people. We have a lot of homeless all over the place now, many with mental health and drug issues. Brave of her though, because this girl was 14 when her parents release her to go off with the Manson family, but she testified against them during the trials.

  • @freebird.family.35
    @freebird.family.35 2 года назад +2

    I wish that somehow a tv show could just get some of the manson family members who were actually living with Charles manson to do a long interview that last for hours and have a toll free number where anyone could call in to ask questions about this because it's obvious there is still a strong interest in the manson family

    • @AnthonyMonaghan
      @AnthonyMonaghan 2 года назад +1

      She did live with Charles Manson and the Manson family. I can imagine how that phone in show would go. What more is there to know. Numerous books by people who were there, by journalists and others who have researched the family, endless interviews with the guy himself and ex members, I mean, what more do you want to know that hasn't already been told?

    • @wanderer299a
      @wanderer299a Год назад

      @@AnthonyMonaghan mama Cass, Steve McQueen , the many famous people who had orgies at the Tate house, lots of questions

  • @elisa7881
    @elisa7881 4 года назад +10

    OMG! The sixties...

    • @tm13tube
      @tm13tube 4 года назад +2

      And seventies, but the worse was 60s.

    • @dennysmith7862
      @dennysmith7862 4 года назад +3

      @@tm13tube Yes agree but not EVERYONE was taking drugs & sleeping around... also politics was mayhem & chaos mostly...war-mongerers (Kennedy/Johnson/Nixon - US) Verwoerd/Vorster/PW) so a lot was going on...but CM was out&out SCUM...(they ate out of rubbish tips)!!! Anyone with half a brain cell cld see that... had NO talent musically & wanted to punish Terry Mulcher & Dennis Wilson for saying as much...idiot of note - feel sorry for worms that had to eat him... was a waste of oxygen...

    • @tm13tube
      @tm13tube 4 года назад +3

      @@dennysmith7862 ... Denny Smith ... True. I didn't, anything, ever but I have a friend who has tics even now from a weekend drugfest. She moved to India after and has been there since. The worst for me, was the politics. It was more than the warmongers. It was Malcom X, MLK, Medder (spelled wrong?), Robert and Jack Kennedy, and eventually the white supremacist George Wallace, Kent State. The scary part for me was it didn't matter what you stood for, if you were a leader someone wanted to kill you.

    • @AWildBard
      @AWildBard 4 года назад +1

      This incident marked the end of the 60's. Maybe it caused the end of the 60's as a cultural event.

  • @xraeee
    @xraeee 2 года назад +1

    People also need to keep in mind, this was the 1960’s, this type of talk was normal during that hippie period.

  • @prymmalder2088
    @prymmalder2088 8 месяцев назад

    I love Dianne Lake. She was the most humane and grounded of the bunch. She signed the Manson family’s fate, along with Kasabian and Atkins.

  • @krisbest6405
    @krisbest6405 4 года назад +4

    Great insight, l imagine the type of drugs changed, if for instance speed was used l know a deep anger and revenge scenario was likely to surface.

    • @lisascorp
      @lisascorp 10 месяцев назад

      Yes. Susan Atkins said she and Tex did speed before going to Tate s house. They always had a stash she said

  • @ladyhecate9450
    @ladyhecate9450 Год назад +3

    I've heard her story before. Even now she speaks openly of the things they are did together and living the hippie life. I was 18 in 1969 and a hippie of love and piece. She lived the life of being in a hippie family. She is lucky she is not damaged knowing Charlie. This was a good interview.

  • @fionahamilton7231
    @fionahamilton7231 2 года назад +1

    Iam reading her book .

  • @LindaMcification
    @LindaMcification 4 года назад +10

    This is soooooo fortunate. I wonder if her parents are still alive

  • @leewilson1316
    @leewilson1316 2 года назад +1

    Sounds like her dad might've palling around with John Phillips!

  • @larryrobertson2150
    @larryrobertson2150 4 года назад +2

    Were the murders done because #1 retaliation for not getting a recording contract , #2 cover over for the Hinman murder , or #3 To initiate the Helter Skelter theory ? I kinda think it just all blended together and Charlie said do it , now is the right time.

    • @wanderer299a
      @wanderer299a Год назад

      All to do with money. Big drug deals going down at Tate's.

  • @upendasana7857
    @upendasana7857 3 года назад +6

    Imagine giving a 14 year old lsd !!!! wow

    • @rubyrose8
      @rubyrose8 2 года назад +1

      Plus teaching her all about sex to palm her off to whoever he wanted

  • @efhs1970
    @efhs1970 3 года назад +1

    Awesome interview!

    • @SkavlanTV
      @SkavlanTV  3 года назад

      Thank you for that, Larry!

  • @monicaturk8001
    @monicaturk8001 3 года назад +2

    bad parenting = bad people

  • @evelynbaron2004
    @evelynbaron2004 4 года назад +6

    Yes Skavlan is the only talk show I will watch after the days of Bernard Pivot. I am 64 and was vr much scandalized if that is the right word by what Charles Manson and his followers did; definition of hell. I did listen to Dianne Lake and understand the Stockholm Syndrome but not sure this is relevant. Perhaps because it is still personal, hard to let go of the horrible experience, while wanting to understand this woman, whom I don't think deserves applause. Wish her well; don't expect me to be her best friend. Best I can do; a truly testing experience for me; tx for this.

  • @faykouri1162
    @faykouri1162 3 года назад +2

    Wow now that’s a dad I wouldn’t want around!

    • @rubyrose8
      @rubyrose8 2 года назад

      Selfish imbecile father

  • @harrynac6017
    @harrynac6017 3 года назад +1

    And again, an excellent interview. Even the comments section contains more nuanced discussions than most about the Manson family.

  • @jeanineking7311
    @jeanineking7311 4 года назад +7

    Her book was very interesting.

  • @charlieib8033
    @charlieib8033 2 года назад +1

    living with charlie wouldve been a cool trip

  • @lennyjohnson9331
    @lennyjohnson9331 Год назад

    I wonder if she's the one who was shipped to Gallup NM, on Aug 10.1970, or 71 ? I happened to live there then & Aug 10also happens to be my bday

  • @c0ri
    @c0ri 2 года назад

    at 2:30 he asks her if she told him and would she run away with her and she said no she would never tell him that, but this is in direct conflict with the story she gave of her doing just that in her book and the terrible reaction that he gave her afterwards. I'm not sure what to make of her, but maybe she just didn't want to go into that horrible stuff for a live TV show.

  • @amirm1603
    @amirm1603 2 года назад +1

    If you endorse what the masters want, you have the support of media, court, academia, and etc

  • @marciathehooligan3861
    @marciathehooligan3861 3 года назад +3

    Wait a minute.
    If she was arrested with all of them in Death Valley (this was on Oct. 1969)and she spent 2 months in jail then 10 in a mental institution, and THEN she testified against Charlie, then how is she still alive?
    Now the trial started in July of 1970. There is numerous video proof that she was holding vigil outside of the courthouse with Squeaky and all the others.
    I mean, she's in nearly every footage taken of the girls outside.
    So at what point did she testify and when was she in the mental institution?

    • @MrTripletts
      @MrTripletts 10 месяцев назад +1

      I haven’t seen her in any vigil footage. You may have her confused with Cappy

    • @MothGirl007
      @MothGirl007 10 месяцев назад +1

      She never held vigil outside the court house.

  • @JamesJohnson-qm6gh
    @JamesJohnson-qm6gh 2 года назад +1

    Diane was beautiful

  • @barbie3139
    @barbie3139 4 года назад +4

    Her parents were extremely negligent!
    so happy she has a strong faith (talked to her pastor) and found the Real savior, who brings love and care, not hatred and paranoia and murder.

    • @rubyrose8
      @rubyrose8 2 года назад +1

      They should have been in jail for child abuse

  • @ronrendina8986
    @ronrendina8986 2 года назад

    Vince bogliosi and this girl are on the sama page

  •  4 года назад +1

    Very good, and looks like she had a better out come that the others.

  • @lorrienascene3141
    @lorrienascene3141 10 месяцев назад

    Read her book, it's very good.

  • @purpleskies6600
    @purpleskies6600 3 года назад

    her book is really good

  • @MeTaLAnGeL
    @MeTaLAnGeL 2 года назад

    That pretty necklace!!!

  • @Lisa-ji5de
    @Lisa-ji5de Год назад

    Whatever became of her parents?

  • @mykeockissore6873
    @mykeockissore6873 4 года назад +1

    Anyone else try counting the number of times this woman said "you know"? I gave up after 100 or so.

    • @robertvysther833
      @robertvysther833 2 года назад +2

      She was nervous, and describing her life as a cult member was difficult.

    • @Zeke1379
      @Zeke1379 2 месяца назад

      now try counting the number of times Manson says "ya dig?" in every one of his interviews.

  • @checkyourhead9
    @checkyourhead9 4 года назад +13

    This host never fails to impress

  • @pyrodiscoflash6115
    @pyrodiscoflash6115 4 года назад +6

    This is a very honest interview, i think the People who committed the murders were only looking for permission from their perceived god and then they enjoyed their perceived power of taking life

    • @Brancaalice
      @Brancaalice 10 месяцев назад

      Does taking life is powerful? I think is weakness. It talking something one dont have, life itself.
      People alive is full of life, not need take people life. Only death rooting inside take other life, cause they want live from it. but it illusion.