Giving Up the Kids
Kaufmann let Curtis have the kids until she learned that things weren’t faring well for him. He and his new wife hadn’t created a child-friendly environment. In fact, he was a drug addict, and she drank heavily.
Falling Far
At this time, Curtis had become a washed-up actor with a horrible addiction. He would work in low-budget movies in the daytime and drank and used pills to numb his pain. This caused Kaufmann to demand he send her daughters back and clean up his life.