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‘The money did not make my family happier’: Abigail Disney on her parents’ alcoholism and the misery at the heart of the magical kingdom
In its movies, theme parks and merchandise, Disney evokes a sense of nostalgia and childhood wonder that has made it possibly the biggest and most ubiquitous entertainment brand of all time. But how would we feel, a granddaughter of the famous dynasty wonders, if we knew that the dream doesn’t tally with reality, that the cost of it all is misery at the coalface of the magic, or that, as she puts it bluntly, “Cinderella sleeps in her car.”
