Nicolas Cage’s mother, Joy Vogelsang, dies at 85

My mama lioness told me, her middle son cub, that I was affectionate,” he wrote, explaining how he learned what “‘affection’ really means” from Vogelsang.

Vogelsang was mother to three sons with Francis Ford Coppola’s brother, August Coppola; Cage, Christopher, and Marc Coppola.

“She was plagued with mental illness for most of my childhood,” Cage said at the time.

“The strangest thing about it is that, even when things got really bizarre, I was able to detach and look at it with a scientific curiosity.

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