| Net Worth | $2 Million |
| Husband | Jeremy Hyman |
Who is Barbara Davis?
Barbara Davis Hyman is an American author and pastor. She is the first child of actor Bette Davis. In Santa Ana, California, on May 1, 1947, she was born. Davis and the artist William Grant Sherry (1914–1995) were her biological parents. Later, the fourth husband of Davis actor Gary Merrill adopted her.
She made a fleeting cameo in her mother’s 1951 film Payment on Demand. In a small part as the neighbor’s daughter in the 1962 film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, she was given the credit B. D. Merrill. As of 2024 she is 77 years old.
Barbara Davis Husband
In London, B. D. met Jeremy Hyman, the British nephew of Seven Arts Productions’ owner, Eliot Hyman. They were married when Jeremy was 29 years old and B.D. was 16. The couple had been married for over 50 years when Jeremy passed away in November 2017. Their two kids are named Ashley and Justin.
Barbara Davis Net Worth 2024
Barbara Davis has an estimated net worth of $2 Million. Her books and ministry endeavors have brought her great wealth.
Barbara Davis Siblings
Gary and Davis went on to adopt Margot and Michael Merrill Barbara siblings.
Barbara Davis Relationship with Parents
Davis’s ex-husband Gary Merrill supported Davis and claimed in a CNN interview that B. D. was motivated by “cruelty and greed” despite their acrimonious divorce from several years prior. B. D.’s adopted brother Michael Merrill broke off contact and wouldn’t talk to her again. Bette Davis disinherited B. D. and her grandchildren rather than splitting her estate between her personal assistant Kathryn Sermak and her adopted son Michael Merrill.
Barbara Davis Books
Hyman wrote two books that were extremely critical of her mother: My Mother’s Keeper (1985) and Narrow Is the Way (1987). Davis fell ill after suffering a stroke during the book’s publication, though the book’s writing was completed long before Davis’s illness, and Hyman faced harsh criticism for the timing of the book’s release. The author detailed her challenging mother-daughter relationship and included scenes of her domineering alcoholic mother in her book My Mother’s Keeper.
In a 60 Minutes interview that Mike Wallace rebroadcast a few years ago, Hyman praised Davis for her parenting skills when she (Hyman) was younger and said that she had taken many of Davis’s parenting principles to raise her own children. But unlike My Mother’s Keeper, the second book did not pique readers’ interest to the same extent.
Barbara Davis Ministry
Hyman, a born-again Christian, serves as both the director of her own ministry and the pastor of her Charlottesville, Virginia, church. Three of her books have been published by her ministry: Oppressive Parents: How to Leave Them and Love Them (1992), The Church is Not the Bride (2000), and The Rapture, the Tribulation, and Beyond (2002).
