“I married Bruce when I was very, very young.” They welcomed a daughter, Diane Elizabeth Dern, in November 1960. Eighteen-month-old Diane Elizabeth died in May 1962 in a drowning accident ...

Laura Dern didn’t exactly get her famous mother’s blessing when she was younger. In an interview ... Ladd, 82, had Dern while married to actor Bruce Dern, 81 — and she wanted her daughter ...

Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd got a divorce. A young Laura was then mainly brought up by her mother and grandmother in California. Just like her daughter, Diane Ladd (still gorgeous at the age of 88 ...