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Tearful Interview: Fox Business
Network’s Melissa Francis on
Picking Yourself Up After
Hitting Rock Bottom

Fox News, by Staff

Original Article

Posted By:KarenJ1, 11/15/2012 9:34:46 PM

With things looking pretty hopeless for the victims of Superstorm Sandy, Neil Cavuto asked Fox Business Network’s Melissa Francis to join him on Your World to provide those suffering with a little hope. So, what does Francis know about pain and suffering? Quite a bit, it turns out. In her new memoir Diary of a Stage Mother’s Daughter, Francis details the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother. Since the release of her book, Francis tells Cavuto that many people have approached her detailing similar hardships.

Comments:
I´ve always enjoyed Ms. Francis on Fox Business. I had no idea about her background.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: michellewsc2, 11/15/2012 9:54:41 PM     (No. 9017320)

Wow...I´ve always liked Melissa Francis on FOX, but never heard that she had been a child actor on Little House on the Prairie. Incredible story...very touching!


Reply 2 - Posted by: miceal, 11/15/2012 10:30:26 PM     (No. 9017377)

Come down and interview Katrina survivors in Mississippi. We are still in recovery and quite a few of us did it with God and our neighbors help ONLY......!


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Straitpath, 11/15/2012 11:24:44 PM     (No. 9017465)

I was touched by the interview.


Reply 4 - Posted by: TXknitter, 11/16/2012 12:36:23 AM     (No. 9017541)

#3, I was as well. It made me realize how rare the true unrehearsed, unexpectedly honest and touching moments really are on TV interviews. Only Neil Cavuto could have handled this so kindly and tenderly. I had no idea FBN´s Melissa was that beautiful child actor!



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