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This one is in English because it is from the UK. Dated August 4, 2002.
The Sunday Express Newspaper.

Katie Cassidy has defied her dad by making a new version of David’s first hit single. She tells Peter Robertson why

THE TEENAGE love-child of Seventies pop idol David Cassidy is making her own bid for pop stardom – and Daddy does not approve. Katie Cassidy, 15, is trying to launch her singing career with the same song, I Think I Love You, which made her father’s name 32 years ago.

“I recorded I Think I Love You and got a record deal because I wanted to do it on my own and didn’t want him to help or have anything to do with it, ” Katie explains. “After I did it, I told him and he doesn’t think I should be doing it. He hasn’t given a reason. I think it’s because he wants me to be 18.

“It hurts, because he’s my father and all fathers should support what their child does. He doesn’t really know how. He could say: ‘I don’t approve of you doing this but I’ll support your decision, ‘ instead of saying: ‘No, I don’t want to have anything to do with this, I don’t support you, you shouldn’t be doing this.’ He’s supposed to be a father. He knows my mum would never let me do something that’s going to hurt me or change me.”

Katie’s mother is Sherry Benedon, a 49-year-old former model and actress who met David Cassidy in June 1970 when she auditioned for a part in The Partridge Family, the TV series which turned him into a heart-throb and superstar.

Sherry, who appeared in episodes of Hawaii Five-O and The Love Boat, recalls: “I didn’t get the job on The Partridge Family but David took me out to dinner that night. He was really cute and charming. I wasn’t interested in the part any more; I was just interested in the cute boy.”

Sherry went on to enjoy an on-off relationship with Cassidy in the Seventies and Eighties, a period in which he was married twice (to Kay Lenz and Meryl-Ann Tanz) and she was married once. “I was divorced from my husband, Dean, when I had Katie. When I told David I was pregnant he was OK with it but he had some difficulty adjusting to the concept of being a father.”

Sherry has two daughters – Jaime, 20, and Jenna, 18 – by Dean. When Katie was born, on November 25, 1986, David was in England. “He saw Katie as a baby but I don’t want to get into detail about how often, ” she says.

Katie remembers things differently. “I’ve known him since fourth grade.”

Sherry, who has been with her second husband, physician Richard Benedon, since Katie was four (they married in 1991), adds: “Richard has been the person raising Katie with me. She calls him Dad also.

In my opinion, David’s lifestyle is not conducive to children and I would never have raised my kids in the lifestyle that an entertainer lives.”

Sherry, Richard, Jaime, Jenna and Katie live in a gated community in Calabasas, just outside Los Angeles, a few hours away from David’s luxury six-bedroom mansion in Las Vegas, where he lives with his current wife, songwriter Sue Shifrin, and their 11-year-old son, Beau. “David supports Katie financially but perhaps not as he should do and is able to, ” Sherry reveals.

David Cassidy has rarely said anything publicly about Katie. In fact, although she looks far more like him than his son does, it is as if Beau is his only child. His website, http://www.davidcassidy. com, which does not mention her, contains links to many related websites but noticeably not to http://www.katiecassidy. org.

When David was the subject of an edition of ITV’s Stars In Their Lives recently, he was joined in the studio by Beau but no mention was made of Katie.

In a recent interview, having raved about Beau, he was asked if he would have liked to have had any more children and replied: “No. I’m happy. My personal feeling is that less is more in terms of the quality time that you can spend. You have to spread yourself too thin with too many kids.”

SHERRY admits she has been partly responsible for the secrecy surrounding Katie. “For years I had an agreement with David that Katie would not be brought into his public life. I have wanted it that way because she has had a very normal childhood and a wonderful, stable foundation. Only in the past few years has he been talking about her at all. But once she started doing her music, he hasn’t been as supportive as she would like. He wishes she was older because of the circumstances of being an entertainer at such a young age.

“I agree with him but he can only base his decisions on his experiences. I just feel that the stability and criteria that my husband and I have is different to what he was used to. David was raised in a show business family; Katie was raised in an everyday atmosphere but Katie has her own agenda much different to his.”

Katie agrees. “My dad needs to know that my mum does what’s right for me and she’s not going to allow something bad to happen. I was raised differently to him, I’m planning on going to college and I’m planning on having a family.

“I’ll also be going a different route because I’m not on a TV show and I’ll handle things differently.

When he was going into it, he thought it was his career for life but I’m not thinking like that.”

In what could be construed as a thinly veiled dig at David’s self-confessed battle with alcohol in the past (he now says “drink
doesn’t work for me”),Katie adds: “When things go bad, I look and say: ‘Maybe there’ll be bumps in the road, ‘ but I try to turn all the negatives into positive things because you have to keep your head high and not let it stress you out.” Asked if she thinks her father has been stressed out by show business, she replies:

“Definitely. I think it’s because he’s older and it’s his career and life but this is something I do for fun.”

Does she think the idea of her pursuing a show business career stresses him out? “I’m sure it does but I don’t know if he would admit it.”

Sherry says she has never been a David Cassidy fan and hasn’t brought Katie up on his music. “He gave me one album but I don’t even remember the name of it. I was more interested in him as a person. We didn’t even have a copy of The Partridge Family’s I Think I Love You until a friend of Katie recently gave her one.”

KATIE says: “I’ve never watched The Partridge Family but I’ve seen stuff about him on TV. Music back then was a lot different. He’s a really good entertainer and performer but I don’t know if people my age would watch.” The fact that Katie is trying to establish her own pop career with the song that was her father’s debut hit single may be interpreted by some as an attempt to wind him up but she insists it’s coincidental.

“I never thought I was going to be a singer. I thought I’d enjoy acting more, but I met the producer Joel Diamond at a drugstore near my home and we started talking. He said he wanted to hear me sing and Mum told him who my dad was.

He said: ‘That’s so weird!’ because he’d just finished cutting I Think I Love You for someone to record.

It made me feel like I was supposed to record it.

When I told my dad, he was OK with it and when he heard it about two months ago, he said it was cool. I don’t think it matters what song I’m singing.

I think it’s more that I’m doing it. The only thing he’s said is: ‘I want you to know this is a hard business, and there are ups and downs in it.’ ” Being the daughter of a former pop icon is, says Katie, “an advantage and a disadvantage. Yes, it helps get your foot in the door but I get questions as though it’s about him and me, when really I feel it’s more about me. I know I’m going to get questions about him – I remade his song and I’m his daughter.”

Did she think about using a different surname?

“No, because that’s my name. I’m hoping that after this people will start buying my singles not because I’m David Cassidy’s daughter but because I’m a new artist and they’ve heard my song and like it.

“I’m going back into the studio to record more songs in August, so I’ll be able to go out on tour.

Hopefully I’ll have another single in September.”

Another David Cassidy song perhaps? “No, I’m definitely not going to record any more of his songs.”

Katie’s recording of I Think I Love You is a dance track, reminiscent of Britney Spears.

Released by Artemis records, it is available on the Internet but has yet to rank in the US charts. Katie recently made her first public appearance at BB King’s Club in California’s Universal Studios. This autumn she will appear in the TV documentary Pop Rocks and hopes to release an album in February.

Would she like to be as successful as her father?

“Hopefully, but I’ll do it my own way. I want people to look up to me, for me to have a voice to say what I think – and hopefully my dad will be supportive by then. If my biological father doesn’t want to have a relationship with me it’ll hurt but I have a stepfather who’s basically my father. He’s been my parent for 11 years.”

What Katie websites? coz i can’t find any except this one when i google her!!
Could u post the links please!