“I identified with so many of the things that the character was going through,” Natalie Wood’s little sister says. “There were some moments when it could have been me.
Wood encountered some hard times several years ago when she found herself living in a motel with her daughter, Evan Taylor Maldonado, son-in-law, three grandkids and their two dogs.Wood — a mainstay on ’60s TV series such as “The Long, Hot Summer” and “Peyton Place” — said her “Dog Boy” character touched her soul for obvious reasons.
“I remember when [Vera] said she was going to lose her home,” she noted. “She found herself in a position where she was going to lose her home. That really resonated with me. It was a little sad at times. But what a wonderful experience.” Unfortunately, Wood encountered more grief in 2017, when her only daughter died from heart failure at the age of 42. She later had a friendLana Wood in a publicity shot from “Peyton Place,” the 1960s night time soap opera.
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