Anna Nicole Smith: Her boyfriend Larry Birkhead reveals the last thing the Playboy model said

Larry Birkhead is featured in the new Lifetimes movie Hopelessly in Love: Anna Nicole Smith and Larry Birkhead.

And to promote the special, which aired on Friday, he revealed the last thing that the Playboy pinup told him.

‘She sent me an [instant message on AOL Instant Messenger]. She said, “Don’t fall in love again,”‘ he confessed. ‘And then she had a crying face and then she signed off. That’s the last time I spoke to her.’

At the time, the Guess model was pregnant with their daughter Dannielynn. 

Smith was in the Bahamas to get away from public attention.

‘My goal at the time was to try to get her to come back to the U.S. from the Bahamas, and I had almost got her to that place of saying that she would do it,’ he told Fox News.  

‘We still had that connection and she was really more curious about what I was doing at the time, the last time I spoke with her. I told her that I was going on a tour with a country artist, this female country artist.

‘She wanted to know all about her,’ he added.

‘”Who is she, what does she look like?” It was one of those things where she was kind of getting a little jealous about it and she started crying about it,’ he said.

‘And that same day she had to go to the emergency room because she was so upset. She actually gave birth early to my daughter because of her getting so upset at that time.’

That is when she sent him the ‘Don’t fall in love again’ message.  

Dannielynn was born on September 7, 2006. 

Three days later Smith’s 20-year-old son Daniel – who had a different father – died suddenly from an accidental drug overdose. 

He just happened to be visiting Anna and Dannielynn at the hospital.

Laryr and Anna met  at the Kentucky Derby in 2003. 

When they met again a year later at the same Derby, they clicked.

‘In my mind I thought, there’s no way Anna Nicole, who could have her pick of any guy in here, is interested in me,’ he relyaed.

He then met up with her in Nebraska for an event.

‘It wasn’t a red carpet event, it was more her one on one with the kids and she was a different person,’ he said. ‘This was not wild, wacky zany Anna Nicole. It’s someone who had more of a purpose to them than being a punchline on television.’

Their first kiss was ‘surreal.’

‘The first night I was alone with Anna, she told me she thought I was an angel sent to help her,’ he said. 

They went on vacation in 2005 but ‘that thing went downhill fast’ because he was spending time with a friend who ‘kind of looked like Marilyn Monroe.’

‘I think Anna just got jealous, Anna thought it was competition,’ he said.

They were off and on until she got pregnant. 

He also said that earlier she had a miscarriage probably because her overall health was not good.   

‘She had seizures and she would get migraines, her hands would swell, she would have back pain because of her breast implant surgery,’ said Larry.

‘There was always something she would take. I questioned it early on, like, You’re taking a lot of medicine. She was like, You don’t understand, assured me everything was great, but I was still worried.’

When she became pregnant with Dannielynn, she ‘was talking to her doctor and her doctor said, ‘No, you have to stay on these medicines, if you don’t you can go into a seizure and lose the baby,’ said Larry. 

Anna also told him to not talk about her pregnancy.   

‘I couldn’t say a word to anybody because the last thing she thought people wanted to see was a pregnant diet pill spokesperson,’ he said.

At the time she was a rep for TrimSpa.

‘It was eating me up, we went months without being able to say anything,’ he said. 

Her lawyer Howard K Stern seemed to get in the way, making sure paparazzi photos of Anna and Larry did not get out.   

Larry also says he and Anne were talking about marriage.

They got in a fight, however, and Anna went to the Bahamas.

It was the last time Larry saw her alive.

‘It was almost scripted,’ said Larry, ‘She was like, “I’m not coming back home and this isn’t your baby. That was like a knife going through me.”‘

But they still talked.     

Anna died of an overdose in a Florida hotel room. Larry found out while watching TV in his dentist’s office.  

‘I was in denial about it, I said, I think I can fix this, I think I can fix this. I want to get on a plane, I can fix this,’ he remembered thinking.

The funeral took place in the Bahamas in March. ‘It was sad, just to see her laying there. She had a pink dress on, a tiara,’ he said. ‘We were all asked to write, if we wanted to, something to put in the casket. I told her in the note I was going to take care of our daughter and I listed some of the things we did, the fun times, some of the songs we listened to and I just poured it all out. Put the note in the casket, they lowered the casket down and that was it.’ 

Earlier this week he told UsWeekly about being a dad.

‘So many people come up to her and say, you know, “I was a big fan of your mom’s,” and, “I loved your mom,” or, “She inspired me to lose weight or be a model or just being a single parent.” And so, you know, a lot of people helped me in that regard,’ added Larry.

He then said that Dannielynn is ‘just a really great kid.’ 

‘People think it was like a one-night stand that I had with Anna and then I got lucky and won this DNA lottery, when it was, like, a two-year relationship with, admittedly, highs and lows,’ said Larry.

‘But it was a crazy love story. In fact, when they called me and said, “Do you want to do this show?” I said, “Do you got the right person?” Because our story was not like your Disney love story or Cinderella story. It was one of those crazy things.’ 

Hopelessly in Love: Anna Nicole Smith and Larry Birkhead airs on Lifetime Friday, January 17, at 9 p.m. ET.