At 7, Owen ElliotKugell was told that her mother, singer Cass Elliot, wouldn't be coming home again. "I remember thinking to myself that they were wrong. I knew she was going to come home because she always did," Owen tells Closer.
In a new memoir, My Mama, Cass, the daughter of the Mamas & the Papas singer reveals the story of her mother and their family. "She didn't get a chance to tell it, so I figured I was the next best thing," Owen says.
Many of Owen's memories of her mother, whose hits include "California Dreamin"" and "Monday, Monday," involve travel. The Mamas & the Papas hit their apex releasing a third album and performing before 18,000 fans at the Hollywood Bowl - just months after Owen's birth in 1967. A year later, Cass set off on a solo career. "I have memories of going to the airport to pick her up and of running down the sidewalk to greet her," says Owen.
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