EXCLUSIVEMama Cass's daughter opens up about her years of '拷問' over THAT ham 挟む 噂する about her mom's death - and 明らかにする／漏らすs she even considered SUING people over it

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Mama Cass's daughter has opened up about her years of '拷問' over a?ham 挟む 噂する?that surrounded her mother's death - and 明らかにする／漏らすd why she considered 告訴するing the people who made 'cruel jokes' about it.

When The Mamas & The Papas singer?Cass Elliot tragically passed away in 1974 suddenly 老年の 32, a strange （人命などを）奪う，主張する that she had died from choking on a ham 挟む spread around the マスコミ.

The bizarre myth - which was untrue, as she 現実に died from a heart attack - became 悪名高い, and has been the butt of 非常に／多数の jokes in the １０年間s since.

Now, the late musician's daughter, Owen Elliot-Kugell, 57, has spoken 排他的に to DailyMail.com about how her mom's 経営者／支配人 accidentally created the fallacy.

Mama Cass's daughter has explained how that ham 挟む 噂する really started - and 明らかにする／漏らすd why she considered 告訴するing the people who made 'cruel jokes' about it?

When The Mamas & The Papas singer Cass Elliot (seen in 1966) tragically passed away in 1974 at age 32, a strange （人命などを）奪う，主張する that she had died from choking on a ham 挟む spread?

The bizarre myth - which was untrue, as she 現実に died from a heart attack - became 悪名高い, and has been the butt of 非常に／多数の jokes. Cass is seen with her bandmates in 1967?

Now, the late musician's daughter, Owen Elliot-Kugell (seen in 2022), 57, has spoken 排他的に to DailyMail.com about how her mom's 経営者／支配人 accidentally created the fallacy??

She also opened up about why the misconception 疫病／悩ますd her for １０年間s - 運動ing her to even consider 雇うing a lawyer to put an end to it once and for all.

'The 噂する was started by my mom's 経営者／支配人?Allan Carr, who was a 井戸／弁護士席-known movie 生産者,' Owen explained.

'He （機の）カム to her apartment after they got the phone call that she had passed away and there was a [half-eaten] ham 挟む [on her nightstand].

'It had been made for my mother by one of the ダンサーs [the night before].?The 挟む was still sitting there - when Alan walked in he saw the 挟む.'

Owen said that Allan was worried people would assume that she died of a 麻薬 overdose 予定 to the suddenness of her passing and her young age - so he decided to tell people that she passed away while eating in the hopes that it would 追い散らす the 憶測.

'I think he had some trepidations, people in those days were dropping like 飛行機で行くs as a result of 麻薬s,' she continued.

'I really believe Alan 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 削減（する） it off from the start and not have people go 負かす／撃墜する that direction.'

Owen 認める to DailyMail.com that she was immensely bothered by the hoards of people who used the ham 挟む 噂する for content.

She also opened up about why the misconception 疫病／悩ますd her for １０年間s - 運動ing her to even consider 雇うing a lawyer to put an end to it. She's seen as a baby with her mom

Owen said that her mom's 経営者／支配人 Allan Carr (seen) was worried people would assume that she died of a 麻薬 overdose 予定 - so he decided to tell people she passed away while eating

It was featured in lyrics to a slew of famous songs - 含むing Frank Zappa's We're Turning Again, TISM's (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River, and Foetus' The 王位 of Agony.

It was also について言及するd in th e マイク Myers-lead comedy movie Austin 力／強力にするs, and was used in Weird Al Yankovic's 跡をつける の近くに but No Cigar.?

'There were a lot of people who have made cruel jokes about it, comedians,' Owen 明言する／公表するd. 'I used to get really upset and want to 雇う a lawyer.' She's seen as a baby with her mom

'There were a lot of people who have made cruel jokes about it, comedians,' Owen 明言する／公表するd. 'I used to get really upset and want to 雇う a lawyer.'

But 結局, she said she began to embrace it because she realized it was 'keeping her mom in the pop culture life.'?

'I realized at a 確かな point, there's no [such thing as] bad publicity,' she 追加するd. '[The jokes mean] people are thinking about her.

'She's still in people's consciousness and that is a 広大な／多数の／重要な thing. I learned to be 感謝する for stuff in the past I felt was not 権利.?

'Now I have realized, someone's still thinking about her. That's what she would [have 手配中の，お尋ね者].'?

Owen wrote about the now-悪名高い ham 挟む 噂する in her new memoir, する権利を与えるd?My Mama, Cass, and she 述べるd it as 'beyond 失望させるing and almost immeasurable' in the tome.

It was について言及するd in the マイク Myers-lead comedy movie Austin 力／強力にするs (seen), and was used in Weird Al Yankovic's 跡をつける の近くに but No Cigar

Owen wrote about the now-悪名高い ham 挟む 噂する in her new memoir, する権利を与えるd My Mama, Cass, and she 述べるd it as 'beyond 失望させるing and almost immeasurable'?

'Even as a little girl, when I was hanging out with my friends at school, they didn't know who my mom was, but I would go home to have playdates with some of these kids and it was 肉親，親類d of たびたび（訪れる） that one of their parents would make a comment to me like, "Hey, did your mom really die choking on a ham 挟む?"' she 解任するd.

'It bothered me because it was such a horrible story, and I knew that it wasn't true. And it just felt so cruel to have a 噂する like that perpetuated. It 拷問d me.'?

While chatting with DailyMail.com, Owen, who was only seven when her mom passed, also 解任するd the harrowing moment that she learned that her mother had died. She's seen as a kid

While chatting with DailyMail.com, Owen, who was only seven when her mom passed, also 解任するd the harrowing moment that she learned that her mother had died.

'She had traveled to London to 成し遂げる and had arranged for me to go and stay with her mom, my grandmother, in Baltimore,' explained the writer.?

'I was in summer （軍の）野営地，陣営, and I was approached by one of the 助言者／カウンセラーs who said, "You're gonna go home 早期に today I'm gonna give you a ride."?

'I went 支援する to my grandmother's apartment and she told me my mom wasn't gonna be coming home and that she had died.

'I didn't really understand or believe her because I had so much experience with my mom traveling for work and she always （機の）カム 支援する.

'That had been my experience [in the past], so I felt like, "You guys don't really know. I know she'll be 支援する."?

'I think that speaks to the 無（不）能 to really understand the finality of death. It's a really コンビナート／複合体 and 激しい 支配する for a child.'

She 解任するd 'hoards of paparazzi' 砲撃するing her and her family at the funeral, even going as far as to 押し進める their cameras into their open car windows.?

'You can imagine how oppressive and awful that must have been for us as a family. You can see how hugely traumatized we all were [in the photos]. It was insane,' she 株d. 'It was a pretty traumatic day for me.'?

?'I didn't really understand or believe her because I had so much experience with my mom traveling for work and she always （機の）カム 支援する,' Owen (seen 栄誉（を受ける）ing her mom in 2022) said

She 解任するd 'hoards of paparazzi' 砲撃するing her and her family at the funeral. She's seen at the funeral with sister Leah and her husband, Russ, in 1974

While the 星／主役にする 認める that reliving her mom's passing while 令状ing the 調書をとる／予約する was 'hard,' she said it made her feel 'closer' to her late mother in the end. She's seen with Chynna Phillips

While 反映するing on her childhood and what it was like to grow up with a famous mother, Owen explained that she didn't fully 'understand' that her mom was a celebrity until that moment at the funeral.

She said she had learned to 受託する that 'her mom's work' meant there would usually be people around who 'admired her and 手配中の，お尋ね者 to talk to her' whenever they were out in public, but that it just felt 'normal' to her.

'I remember 存在 taken to the airport to 会合，会う her one time when she was 飛行機で行くing in. I was standing with my nanny on the 抑制（する） outside of LAX and I saw her coming out the door 50-100 feet away,' she 解任するd.

'I started to run に向かって her - she was throwing her 武器 open, but someone stepped in between us to ask for her autograph.?

'That moment, I feel like, was a moment where I had to understand that my mom's work entailed that she had people who really liked her and admired her and 手配中の，お尋ね者 to talk to her when she was out in the public, and that was part of what her 職業 was.

'I had to wait my turn, and I'd get my chance 結局 but I learned to wait. It was 肉親，親類d of sad but it was what I knew to be normal.'

While the 星／主役にする 認める that reliving her mom's passing while 令状ing the 調書をとる／予約する was 'hard,' she said it made her feel 'closer' to her late mother in the end.

She said she went to visit her 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な after she finished 令状ing it, and when she talked to her, she realized she felt 'lighthearted' in 'a way she had never experienced.'

'It's always sort of an uncomfortable thing, [visiting her 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な], I never know what to say or do,' she explained. 'It's a 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な 場所／位置, it's a weird place.

'[But when I talked to her] it was very lighthearted in a w ay I've never experienced. I realized I felt closer to her, that was a hugely magical experience.'