The 'Barefoot Contessa' star said she remembers thinking her father could kill her when she was a child.
Ina Garten has revealed she was 'physically afraid' of her dad and spent much of her childhood in her bedroom with the door closed for 'protection.'The Barefoot Contessa star said her life was 'pretty unhappy' as she was growing up in Connecticut in the 1950s and that her surgeon father Charles Rosenberg was 'difficult' with both her and her brother.
The TV star and writer—who has opened up about her life growing up in her new memoir, Be Ready When The Luck Happens—has also shared how she had a difficult relationship with her mother, Florence. She has previously told how Florence, who died in 2006, didn't like her daughter cooking with her, and would ask her to go and study while she cooked meals.'When I was growing up I wasn't allowed to cook,' Garten said in an episode of the Cooking Up A Storm podcast in 2021.
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