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“I was never meant to be raised by one mother, but by many,” Rowell writes. She was the youngest of six children born to Dorothy Rowell, a woman who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was ultimately deemed unfit as a mother. Reflecting on a photograph of her mother taken in the 1950s, Rowell observes: “She had Elizabeth Taylor good ...
Dorothy, who suffered from schizophrenia, took a taxi to a hospital to give birth to Rowell, leaving a son and two small daughters unsupervised. When she was 16 days old, Rowell, along with her two sisters, Sheree and Lori, were surrendered to child services.
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- 1987–present
- Actress, producer, writer
- Victoria Lynn Rowell, May 10, 1959 (age 64), Portland, Maine, U.S.
As an adult I acquired a photograph of a much different Dorothy Mabel Collins Rowell, taken in the 1950s. She had Elizabeth Taylor good looks. Creamy white skin, thick black hair, laughing eyes.
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May 25, 2007 · Daytime television star Victoria Rowell spent her early life going from home to home in the foster care system. In her new book she talks about those experiences and the women who cared for her...
May 17, 2018 · Her mother was Dorothy Rowell, a white woman; Rowell ’ s father, a man named Wilson, was black. She never knew him. It is unclear why Dorothy gave Victoria up after 16 days; however, it has been suggested that it was due to pressure from her white family.
American actor, dancer, writer and producer, Victoria Lynn Rowell (b. 1959), spent her entire childhood in the US foster care system. Victoria Rowell was born in Portland, Maine. Her mother, Dorothy, was a white woman who struggled with schizophrenia and left other children unattended at home when she gave birth.
Jun 23, 2020 · According to Rowell’s 2007 memoir, The Women Who Raised Me, her mother, Dorothy Collins Rowell had schizophrenia with stays in psychiatric institutions through the years. The day Rowell was...
