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Gilligan's Island star shares awful truth about her childhood

Just over 60 years after becoming a household name on Gilligan's Island, Tina Louise is opening up about her tough childhood.

Now Louise (seen above in 2013) spends her days in New York City , tutoring children who have no idea she was an iconic actress decades earlier 'It was like going from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" to "Eloise at the Plaza,"' the actress said, adding that she ultimately told her father they shouldn't see each other. She joined the nonprofit organization Learning Leaders, which trains volunteers as tudors, which she has served as in New York City for the past two decades.

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