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Considering Steve Jobs’ initial claims, it’s not surprising that Apple’s co-founder continued to be absent from Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ life for a good part of her childhood. Additionally, when he was present he was seemingly cold toward her at times. In the 2018 piece she penned for Vanity Fair, Brennan-Jobs recalled an encounter with the billionaire when he responded to her in a “a sour, biting way,” writing, “By that time I knew he was not generous with money, or food, or words.”
It was only later in Brennan-Jobs’ life that the two began to repair their relationship and even then, she described it as “awkward.” According to The New York Times, a “dying Mr. Jobs” told his daughter that she smelled “like a toilet” after she had sprayed herself with rosewater perfume. “He was telling me the truth,” Brennan-Jobs explained in the NYT profile. “I wasn’t aware of it. Sometimes it’s nice of someone to tell you what you smell like.”
Other father-daughter interactions were even more unusual, to say the least. In Brennan-Jobs’ memoir, Small Fry, she recounts one incident when Jobs and his wife, Laurene Powell, were getting intimate. “‘Hey Lis,’ he said (via The Hollywood Reporter). ‘Stay here. We’re having a family moment. It’s important that you try to be part of this family,'” she recalled her father saying moments after she tried to escape the situation. “I sat still, looking away as he moaned and undulated.”
Written by: Nicki
