'You won't get anything': Steve Jobs's daughter first spoke about a difficult relationship with her father

Lisa Brennan-Jobs, daughter of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, has published an excerpt from her book Small Fry, which talks about her difficult relationship with her father.

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The published chapter tells about some heartbreaking incidents that occurred in her relationship with her father, writes Business Insider.

This is the first time that Brennan-Jobs spoke in detail about her father, who initially denied her paternity and refused to pay her mother’s allowance, Chrisanan Brennan. Jobs died in 2011 year at the age of 56 years due to complications from pancreatic cancer.

An excerpt from the book, which will be published in the September issue of Vanity Fair, begins with a story about the last days of Jobs' life. He spent them in the company of a Buddhist monk - Jobs converted to Buddhism at a young age. Lisa recalls that when she visited her father, the clergyman told her to “touch his feet.”

Brennan Jobs visited her sick father every week, trying to build relationships with stepmother Loren Powell and her three half-brothers and sisters.

“I abandoned the idea of ​​a great reconciliation, as they show in the movies, but I still came,” the girl writes in the book.

The book also states that Jobs refused paternity against Lisa from her very birth in 1978 and until the district attorney of San Mateo forced him to take a DNA test and provide financial support for the girl.

Brennan-Jobs said that her father’s lawyers insisted on completing the child benefit payments for December 8 on December 1980. Four days later, Jobs became very rich thanks to Apple entering the stock market.

She also remembered that her father changed his Porsche every time a scratch appeared on it. One day she asked if she could take one of the cars he was getting rid of.

“You won't get anything. It's clear? Nothing. You won’t get anything,” he responded to this request, according to the book.

Brennan-Jobs added that her father was not "generous with money, food and words."

The girl said that she did not have a normal relationship with her father, but she just wanted to be closer to him.

“To him, I was a blemish on an impressive success story because our situation did not fit the narrative of greatness and virtue that he had created for himself. My existence destroyed the line of his life. For me, it was the other way around: the closer I was to him, the less ashamed I was,” Lisa wrote.

She uses the failed Apple operating system called Lisa (preceding Macintosh) as a metaphor for her unsuccessful attempts to be near her father.

“Was she named after me?” she asked one day.

“No, sorry, baby,” he replied.

But later, their relationship changed, and Jobs invited her to rest with the whole family, during which they visited his friend, U2 frontman Bono.

Bono repeated Liza’s question, asking Jobs if he had named Lisa after his daughter. This time he replied: "Yes."

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