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Ina Garten recalls her dad dragging her around by her hair as a child in Hoda Kotb interview: 'Terrified he was going to kill me'


In an eye-opening interview with Hoda Kotb, Ina described her younger years as 'cold' and 'lonely,' and said she was 'so restricted' as a child by her parents, Charles and Florence Rosenberg.

In an eye-opening interview with Today host Hoda Kotb, the 76-year-old beloved celebrity cook described her younger years as 'cold' and 'lonely,' and said she was 'so restricted' as a child by her parents, Charles and Florence Rosenberg. 'I think I was terrified that he was going to kill me, and what I realize now is it astonishes me that I didn't have the courage as a child to fight back,' she said, before sharing that he told her: 'No one is ever going to love you.' In a recent interview with People magazine, Ina said that despite calling her childhood bedroom a 'safe haven,' she was not able to make the color what she wanted - which was purple - and was made to have it peach as her mom told her it would 'turn out badly'.

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