Steve Jobs' 'brutal last words to his daughter as he lay on his deathbed' - Daily News

Steve Jobs' 'brutal last words to his daughter as he lay on his deathbed' - Daily News
#SteveJobs, #brutal, #last, #words, #daughter, #deathbed /form Steve Job's daughter has revealed how her father told her that she 'smelled like a toilet' as he lay on his death bed, a new book reveals.  Lisa Brennan-Jobs, 40, has released a tell-all memoir about her tumultuous relationship with the legendary Apple founder who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2011.  The book, titled Small Fry, reveals how Jobs initially denied paternity of his daughter but was forced by a judge to pay child-support after a DNA test proved that he had fathered Lisa during his five year on-off relationship with Chrisann Brennan during the 1970s.  Lisa wrote in an excerpt published in Vanity Fair: “I was required to take a DNA test. The tests were new then, and when the results came back, they gave the odds that we were related as the highest the instruments could measure at the time: 94.4 percent. The court required my father to cover welfare back payments, child-support payments of $385 per month, which he increased to $500, and medical insurance until I was 18.”  Lisa, born in 1977, says she was forced to move home over 13 times before age seven as her mother struggled to pay the bills through a series of cleaning positions, while Jobs, then already a multi-millionaire, refused to help.  “For him, I was a blot on a spectacular ascent,” she writes, “as our story did not fit with the narrative of greatness and virtue he might have wanted for himself. My existence ruined his streak.”  Lisa reveals how she regularly visited her father at his Tudor-style home in Palo Alto in the final 12 months of his life but said she was made to feel like a "nuisance" during her trips.  “I’d given up on the possibility of a grand reconciliation, the kind in the movies, but I kept coming anyway”, she admitted.  During one particular meeting her father cruelly told her she "smelled like a toilet" after she had sprayed an expensive rose mist on her face in one of Job's bathrooms.  “Before I said good-bye, I went to the bathroom to mist one more time,” she wrote. “The spray was natural, which meant that over the course of a few minutes it no longer smelled sharp like roses, but fetid and stinky like a swamp, although I didn’t realise it at the time.  “As I came into his room, he was getting into a standing position. I watched him gather both his legs in one arm, twist himself 90 degrees by pushing against the headboard with the other arm, and then use both arms to hoist his own legs over the edge of the bed and onto the floor. When we hugged, I could feel his vertebrae, his ribs. He smelled musty, like medicine sweat.  “‘I’ll be back soon,’ I said. We detached, and I started walking away.  “‘Lis?’”  “‘Yeah?’”  “‘You smell like a toilet.’”  During childhood, Lisa says her father began visiting her about once a month after he temporarily reconciled with her mother, bringing her roller-skating through the streets of her neigbourhood.  During one visit she innocently asked if she could be given his Porche after

[phonixinflight]

The fact that an adult would be so callous to a child and tell them they are getting nothing is unbelievably cruel. And he was adopted at that.

[ralphconradt]

I worked on the LISA launch and had to meet with Jobs a few times. He was exactly the kind of sorry human being like the books and films and films portrayed him. After one inauspicious meeting he insisted we continue the conversation another time. I did not show up. I can happily claim I once stood up perhaps the most influential person of business in the world.

[julieparrish]

Tragic. “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, but lose his soul?" -Mark 8:36”

[kathydavenport]

He’s a creep cold hearted soulless monster just now a good guy his daughter deserve better May she be loved healed and blessings to her always

[diane]

Poor girl.  He was filthy rich and paid such  measly support.  I hope she can heal.  It is hard when you are that child living in poverty while the dad lives a wealthy life without you in mind.

[RandomRads]

Everyone is inspired by success and wants to become rich and successful like him. How many of use are so cold-hearted like him?

[eyeamking]

So Sad...A Man So Wealthy...Be So Selfish To His Child. I Hope That Book Serves As Therapy And Helps Her To Acquire Happiness.

[jimmyhoffa]

Looks like Steve Jobs ignored the most important "Gift, "
his daughter.

[BFrydell]

If business and wealth are at the top of your priorities, decency isn’t.

[pacificococonut]

So sad... even at Death’s door you can’t even have loving words to your daughter. If anything, that WAS the time to say something. How cruel... the picture of Lisa smiling always warms my heart ❤️ bcuz she appeared to be happy 😊 I hope after the book she can spend quality time with her family. This is her chance to give her kids a loving, caring, supportive life she had always wanted from her father. 😟. Update: Just saw an interview with Lisa... I’m so happy she had a nice moment with her Dad 🙂

[devm]

I’m sorry to say this… I happened to see a video of his speech under the title “ Inspiring Speech by Steve Jobs” or something like that… for the first time. But when I saw his face I decided this guy wouldn’t be a nice person at all and his face reminded me of someone I know. In the second video I learned about how he denied being father for his very first child. Then I thought I was correct in what I thought about him. Being a millionaire, he ignored his own child. Cold hearted person. There is a proverb in my language “ The beauty of the heart will be reflected in the face.”

[SCL]

Sad. He was a cruel cruel man to this child

[groofoot]

Jobs is a perplexing figure; he changed the entire world, and no one can argue that fact .... he created products which made All our lives better .... but he was, also, and undeniably, a complete prick

[debrawatson-graumenz]

How could a parent treat their child that way. He didn’t deserve a daughter!!!

[nda]

He made 500 or so an hour, and only gave that much to his daughter a month, that’s cruel

[rachiddz]

The unhappy childhood of a child abandoned by both parents has something to do with it

[arcanepersona]

He had a bad relationship with his father, his daughter .. this shows you career success is not everything, success as a human is everything.

[rachiddz]

behind every success story there is a sad story

[pathfinder]

Sry but, what are his last words to Lisa? Smelling like a toilet? Or never giving her anything.

[uniquerebel]

The pressures people go the in life and the negative picture people paint for views without considering the feelings of those effected weather alive or dead. It saddened me more to see the state that people's hearts have evolved over time.