TWIN PEAKS director David Lynch was haunted to his grave by a terrifying childhood trauma — as a young boy, he had a spooky encounter with a battered, naked woman that sparked his career as the creator of bizarre, chilling movies!
The 78-year-old director of flicks such as Mulhol-land Drive and Eraserhead revealed before his Jan. 15 death, following a battle with smoking-caused emphysema, the nightmarish incident that shaped his life.
In his 2018 memoir, Room to Dream, he recalled being outside his family’s Boise, Idaho, home late at night when a beautiful, traumatized assault victim appeared, wandering down the street in a daze.
“It was so incredible,” Lynch recalled. “It seemed to me that her skin was the color of milk, and she had a bloodied mouth.”
The shocked boy was too stunned…
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