I don't get to see my mother very often
because of my sister.
It's not worth the brain damage.
So when I do come to town, I stay in hotels.
I've seen when the medication doesn't work,
'cause that's the excuse.
There's always an excuse when Laurie goes off the rail.
She gets mad, and she gets like those cobra eyes.
I imagine she could hurt me, or scare me.
I don't really believe that she would kill me,
but I'm not sure.
If my mother wasn't alive,
and my sister got in to an angry fit,
she could maybe trip me down the stairs
if she thought she could get away with it?
(dramatic music)
Well every since Kim's mother Lydia
started talking about her will,
Kim has been overwhelmed with the idea
of inheriting what she describes as a run-down messy mansion
along with her older sister, who Kim says
is a manipulating genius.
Now, Kim claims that her glamorous and spit-fire
78-year-old mother is to blame You had to tell them that?
For her sister's childish behavior.
(Kim laughs) Take a look.
(dramatic music)
I admit that part of the problem
is that I've done too much for Laurie.
I have been very enabling, and I have stopped doing that.
Laurie would have a problem with any future changes
after I'm gone.
What would she do in her life, where would she go?
I don't think Kim should have the responsibility
of providing for Laurie,
because I think I can get that handled.
Kim thinks that there is a Munchausen situation,
and that I don't see it.
Munchausen is a insecure mother who needs to make
a child sick so that they could get attention.
All I need to do to get attention, frankly,
is to put on an eyebrow, and a bra,
and I get all the attention I need,
have since I was a little girl.
Thank God one of the gifts that I received
was being attractive.
I wish for Kim to live the way she needs to live,
I wish for Laurie to live the way that she needs to live.
This makes me feel like I'm living my life,
and I intend to do that for another 50 years or so.
And I'll drink to that.
(Kim laughs) (audience applauds)
Laurie says both her mother and sister
have always looked down on her because of her mental illness
as she describes it.
My relationship with my mom is very toxic,
she's very overprotective.
Oh I didn't sleep very well,
and I just wanna go downstairs and relax.
And you just got off that medication, didn't you?
She tends to talk down to me.
She makes me feel incompetent in front of people.
It embarrasses me, and it affects my self-esteem.
She's been making me feel like this all my life.
I think she does it because of my OCD,
and my clinical depression,
and because I have emotional problems.
We get along most of the time, but when we argue,
it's because she gets impatient with my illness.
My OCD causes me to worry about everything.
My OCD causes me to chuck things all the time.
There is always a constant fear of getting ill,
getting sick, dying, that type of thing.
My sister Kim always looked down on me because of my illness
and she's always been afraid of me.
She's even said to my mother multiple times
that she thought I was going to kill her,
but that is not true.
My sister Kim makes herself a victim.
My fear is I might end up alone in this world,
and maybe end up homeless, or with no one to love me,
no one to care for me.
I wonder how I'm gonna make it,
I wonder how I'm gonna survive.
I would say to Kim, I hope that some day we can be close,
and we can get along.
I hope you can help me.
(dramatic music)