Lisa Frank’s son Hunter Inexperienced says rising up across the iconic artist “was not a colorful, magical time.”
In interviews for Amazon MGM Studios’ new docuseries “Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story,” Inexperienced revealed that he’s been estranged from his well-known mother for years.
The 29-year-old, who’s the oldest of Frank’s two sons, shared intimate particulars about what it was like for him rising up within the Frank family. Based on Inexperienced, the connection between dad James Inexperienced and mother Lisa was fraught — and one he knew was sure for divorce.
“The divorce happened when I was 10 years old. I remember, I knew my dad wasn’t coming home that night. I just knew something was wrong,” Inexperienced recalled.
“I give him a call, even though I knew the answer, I asked him, ‘Hey dad, are you coming home tonight?’ I remember him saying, ‘I’m not coming home tonight buddy.’”
Inexperienced additionally remembered asking his dad, “Can’t you wait 8 years until I’m 18 years old?”
He added, “It is a long time but as a 10-year-old kid you don’t know any better. There was resentment there, yeah.”
Raised in Tucson, Ariz., Inexperienced defined that his household’s public picture was very totally different than the truth he lived. “Everybody knows my family is running a big business and has money,” he mentioned. “So everybody’s under the impression that your life is perfect. It’s the high life. And it was so not like that.”
At the same time as a child, Inexperienced mentioned he knew that “something was wrong with our family.”
“I have no recollection of us sitting down at dinner without an argument. I have no recollection of a birthday that went well. They just didn’t see eye to eye. It was just a broken family, arguing yelling back and forth,” Inexperienced revealed.
“It was me and my dad and my mom and [younger brother] Forrest. There was never a time that we were one big happy family, ever. I knew that the family would split from an early age.”
Hunter went on to say that he and Forrest have very totally different relationships with their mom.
“My mom treated Forrest a little differently than me, a little bit softer. She treated him more like her child than me,” he claimed.
Based on Inexperienced, Frank constructed a “facade” to make her appear to be “the coolest mom ever,” however was a far cry from that picture in non-public.
“She would yell at me, she would scream at me,” Inexperienced mentioned. “[My parents] would call me a problem child and maybe I’d get in trouble, but that’s because I was so flustered from what was going on at home and everything. I wasn’t a problem child. I wasn’t a bad kid. I was in a bad environment.”
At one level, Inexperienced claims Frank advised him to “Go live with your dad.”
“I felt like she wasn’t giving me encouragement or telling me that she wanted me around,” Inexperienced shared. “She had struggles of her own that maybe she took out on me. She lost her parents at a early age, maybe that has some traumatic experiences in her head. But growing up in her household was not a colorful, magical time.”
Frank has launched a press release responding to the documentary, which seems in every episode.
“I have loved art and have been an artist ever since childhood. Lisa Frank, Inc. is the result of that passion,” the assertion reads. “I’m incredibly grateful for the amazing artists and team members who helped bring my vision to life. I’m so excited about the future, as the next generation takes the helm. Stay tuned — the best has yet to come!”
“Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story” is accessible to stream now on Prime Video.
