Actress Melanie Griffith had no ordinary childhood.
She is the daughter of famed starlet and Hitchcock muse Tipi Hedren, began acting when she was just a toddler, and started dating Hollywood heartthrob Don Johnson was she was just 14-years-old - and he was 22.
Also, her family had a giant pet lion named Neil.
AMAZING PHOTOS BELOW
Plush sofa: Hedren reclines on her pet's mane will reading the newspaper in the family's home in California, where she still lives and still has lions
Kinda trying to work here: Hedren's husband at the time, Noel Marshall, a major Hollywood agent who would go on to produce The Exorcist, typing with his friend
In a new set of photos that have recently been released, we get a look into the life of Griffith and her family, and see just what it is like to have one of the most fearsome creatures in the wild as a pet.
Turns out, not much different than having any other kind of domesticated pet.
Neil is seen lounging on the floor as the maid steps over him, chilling with Griffith in her bed and mostly just horsing, or rather lioning, around with his human family.
Terrifying: Melanie Griffith has one of her very first horrific encounters with a male
Smart idea?: Neil became the inspiration for the film Roar made by the family, which took eleven years and $17 million to make, and brought in only $2 million worldwide.
Family fun: Neil joins family members as they go about working and swimming, seemingly oblivious to the fact that most lions do not live in a world of pools and home offices
The majestic beast was adopted by the family after they took a trip to Africa and decided to make a movie about lions, Roar.
Sadly, the movie was a box office flop, and some of the lions got a bit rough on set.
Griffith required 50 stitches at one point after being bit by one of the cats, and cinematographer Jan de Bont had to have his scalp sewn back on after being attacked.
Snuggling: Griffith and Neil talking about life and other things teenagers discuss with their pets in her childhood bedroom
Nothing to see here: A maid steps over Neil VERY carefully in the family's kitchen as the majestic beast catches a little shuteye
In the end, 70 people wound up being injured by the film’s cast of 150 large predatory cats.
But hey, hakuna matata.
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