Actor Angela Lansbury , who died this week at age 96, enjoyed a fabulous career that included prime-time TV success on Murder, She Wrote. She played a mystery writer who solved crimes where she lived in Maine.

But the longtime performer faced real-life evil when she and her family lived in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Both her kids, Anthony and Deirdre Shaw, got addicted to hard drugs in their teens, and Deirdre began to follow cult leader Charles Manson , Lansbury said.

There were factions up in the hills above Malibu that were dedicated to deadly pursuits, Lansbury said in a chilling 2014 Daily Mail interview that has resurfaced since her death on Tuesday.

It pains me to say it but, at one stage, Deidre was in with a crowd led by Charles Manson, she continued. She was one of many youngsters who knew him and they were fascinated. He was an extraordinary character, charismatic in many ways, no question about it.