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Nancy Reagan’s children commemorated the former First Lady on Monday – a day after her death at age 94 – but her once-estranged daughter offered some cold comfort.
Patti Davis, 63, a longtime liberal activist who drifted from her right-wing Republican parents during the 1990s, released a statement early Monday describing her mom’s final years but said little about the former First Lady’s remarkable legacy as an Alzheimer’s disease advocate and passionate drug prevention champion.
“My mother had been in poor health for quite a while, and recently had gotten markedly worse, so this wasn’t a surprise,” Davis wrote in a two-paragraph statement posted early Monday on her website.
After the Reagan presidency, Davis posed nude in Playboy and penned a memoir blasting her father as “Distant” and her mother as “Abusive.”
“I think that you could make the case that the Ronald Reagan we all came to know would not have existed without Nancy Reagan,” he told “Today.” “Once they had bonded together, they really were inseperable.”
While the former President put on a happy face from the White House, Nancy Reagan was more in touch with “The darker aspect of human nature,” Ron said – especially after the failed assassination attempt on her husband.
Nancy was also the stepmother to Michael and the late Maureen Reagan, Ronald’s two children from his first marriage.