Anna Nicole Smith sat down for her first interview since her son’s death to speak with Mark Steines from Entertainment Tonight. Mark talks on his blog about the experience:

The interview is a veritable rollercoaster of emotions. She giggles like a schoolgirl when she talks about the first time she realized she was in love with Howard. She beams like a mother when she holds little Dannielynn and says, “Can you say mommy?” But it is when she utters the name of her son, DANIEL, that Anna Nicole is no longer able to compose herself. She crumbles like a house of cards, tears pouring out of her eyes, her body shaking from the sobbing. This is not just a controversial, misunderstood woman, this is a mother who has lost a child.

Truly this is a tragic, heartbreaking situation. But I can’t help but trying to visualize Mark sitting at his computer, typing on his blog. And of course, it makes me giggle. And then I feel bad again.

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Written by Lisa Timmons