'Don't Go': Natalie Wood's Daughter Asked Her Mom Not To Leave Before Accident

'Don't Go': Natalie Wood's Daughter Asked Her Mom Not To Leave Before Accident

Natalie Wood's babe Natasha Gregson Wagner remembers how she said goodbye to her mom just afore she larboard to go canoeing with her husband, Robert Wagner, and her Brainstorm costar Christopher Walken that weekend off of Catalina Island.

"Don't go," said Natasha, again 11, as Wood got accessible to go sailing on their yacht, Splendour.

“I bethink she was accepting dressed and putting on [her perfume] Jungle Gardenia on,” Natasha, 45, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. "They were accepting accessible to go on the boat. I was adhering her and cogent her I admired her and to accept a abundant trip. She had an angora sweater on and it was actual soft. That's my endure anamnesis of her."

For abundant added of Natalie Wood's untold story, including an account with Robert Wagner and never-before-seen ancestors photos, aces up this week's affair of PEOPLE.

"I had a funny feeling," says Natasha, the babe of Wood and her additional husband, Richard Gregson. "I don't apperceive if it was just getting a adolescent who didn't wish her mom to leave or what it was but I didn't wish her to go."

Wood drowned off the bank of Catalina Island on November 29, 1981. She was 43. Her afterlife was disqualified an accident, believed to accept happened afterwards she slipped and fell into the water.

Natasha has grappled with the accident anytime since. "I was in a accompaniment of shock for years," she says.

Robert Wagner, now 86, aswell speaks out in PEOPLE's new awning story. "I approved to accumulate her mom's anamnesis animate for her," he says of Natasha. "We were all so burst by the loss."

Over time, she has healed acknowledgment to analysis and a lot of adulation and abutment from the men who aloft her, whom she calls "Daddy Wagner" and "Daddy Gregson," as able-bodied as her husband, amateur Barry Watson, and their kids, babe Clover, 3, and two sons from Watson's aboriginal marriage.

Now Natasha wants her mother to be remembered for her active activity and not her adverse death. Along with her adolescent sister, Courtney, she has created a new aroma Natalie aggressive by the star’s signature gardenia aroma as a accolade to the mom they adored: the one who apprehend them Russian bogie tales, admired collywobbles and fabricated huevos rancheros.

"She was absolutely funny and she was angry and she was happy," she says. “That's how I bethink her."

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