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Larry David’s mom wrote to NY Post columnist concerned that the comedian, then 12, ‘hates people’
NY Post
His apparent aversion to other people started out when he was pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty young.
Larry David — whose character on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” declared that he finds “human contact repulsive” — revealed Tuesday that his mother once wrote to a longtime New York Post columnist and psychologist over concerns about her then-12-year-old son’s dislike for people.
David, who created the hit HBO show in which he plays an exaggerated version of himself, said he was reading the column by Dr. Rose Franzblau one day and clearly recognized himself as the anonymous letter-writer’s son, he told Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show.”
The 76-year-old comic said his mother was a fan of the “Human Relations” advice column that Franzblau wrote for 25 years, until 1976, and would often talk about it — which led 12-year-old David to read it from time to time.
“She wrote a letter to the psychiatrist who had a column in the New York Post, Dr. Franzblau. She wrote a letter to Dr. Franzblau and I read it … and I recognized that this was my mother writing to the psychiatrist,” David said on the late-night talk show. “It was my mother, I know it.”
The psychologist would answer reader’s questions about sex, marriage, parenting and other relationship dynamics in the daily column that was syndicated in dozens of other newspapers across the country.