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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...