He made 361 films and earned $65,000 a week starring in ‘Sugar Babies’ on Broadway with Ann Miller in the late 70s and 80s. In financial terms there is little at stake, although Rooney was one of the last truly great stars forged in Hollywood’s golden age. If anyone knows Mickey it’s me and my mother.’ I was with Mickey every day of my life for forty years until two years ago. But I needed to make sure that my mom was okay, so I was constantly vigilant of him.’īut, Chris said, ‘The two people who cared for him all his life get thrown out of the way. 'I drove him and mom around for forty years and I always felt I was getting paid to suffer the abuse. ‘It was like looking after a violent baby,' said Chris, speaking from his home in Newbury Park, Ventura County. They have told of his worrying reliance on drugs, violent mood swings and the physical, verbal and psychological abuse he inflicted on his eighth wife throughout their marriage.
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Now, in an interview with MailOnline, Chris and his wife Christina have spoken fully for the first time to reveal a series of shocking insights into the life of a man whose success was also his downfall. But I needed to make sure that my mom was okay, so I was constantly vigilant of him' I always felt I was getting paid to suffer the abuse. 'It was like looking after a violent baby. He and Jan are contesting a will enacted barely three weeks before Rooney’s death which leaves them nothing and names Jan’s other son, Mark, a recovering heroin addict who only recently re-entered Rooney’s life, as his sole heir. Three weeks on and the 93-year-old’s family is at war over his estate and before his funeral last Saturday, they were even fighting over his final resting place.Ĭhris is deeply embittered. Mickey Rooney died from a heart attack on Sunday April 6. But according to stepson Chris Aber, 55, this and not the cheeky entertainer, the crooner and joker and charmer of dazzling talent, was the real Rooney. Viewed by MailOnline it showed a screen version of the star that few will recognize.
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The film was shot as part of a proposed reality TV show on Rooney. The actor was arrested and charged but she did not press charges
She called the police in 1997 after an incident at their home. Violence: Chris claims this is a picture of Jan injured after Rooney beat her in 2011 though no police report exists as Jan did not report the alleged incident. Frail Rooney came under thrall of another stepson, a former heroin addict, in the later stages of his life which led him to abandon Jan.Aber, who was Rooney's assistant for 40 years, has spoken out after he and his mother were cut out of the will.Startling out-takes of a shelved reality show lift lid on Rooney's impatience and frame of mind.Claims he was so rude to Jan on a daily basis, even their pet parrot squawked 'shut up, Jan' all day long.
Rooney was arrested in 1997 for hitting wife and Chris shares pictures of Jan in 2011 after another alleged beating.He claims Rooney was violent to Jan - his wife of 36 years - was hooked on sleeping pills and didn't care about his own children or his grandchildren.Mickey Rooney's stepson Chris Aber sets out a series of explosive claims of life with the Hollywood icon who died earlier this month.EXCLUSIVE - Mickey Rooney's dark side revealed: Bitter stepson claims star was a violent husband addicted to sleeping pills
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