

Her fear of dark water was deeply ingrained,” she said.I picked this up several years ago thinking it would be about Natalie from an interesting family perspective. In a 2019 interview with The New York Times, Lana disputed the theory that her sister accidentally drowned after getting into a dinghy alone. “Natalie didn’t swim.

He also alleged in an interview with Megyn Kelly that Wagner held him “hostage,” suggesting that it was in an effort to bar him from telling the truth about Wood’s tragic incident. In the 2009 book, Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour, written by the late actress’ yacht captain Dennis Davern and co-author Marti Rulli, Davern alleged that Wagner pushed Wood off the yacht to her death. Wagner has refused to speak with investigators. Though her death was ruled an accident at the time following a two-week investigation, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reopened the investigation in 2011, and the coroner amended the cause of Wood’s death to “drowning and other undetermined factors.” Her husband Robert Wagner was eventually named a person of interest with officials confirming he was the last person to be with the actress before her disappearance. Wood died at the age of 43 under mysterious circumstances after she went missing from her family’s yacht, only to be found floating in the water wearing a red down jacket and flannel nightgown. This book will shed new light on my life with Natalie, leading up to, and culminating in the events surrounding her death.” “I’m finally sharing everything I know now and what I knew then but was not ready to or brave enough to reveal. “I’ve waited 40 years to finally unburden myself about what happened to my sister Natalie Wood,” Lana Wood said in a statement.

Arnold Schulman, Screenwriter on 'Goodbye, Columbus' and 'Love With the Proper Stranger,' Dies at 97
