The late Anna Nicole Smith's former partner Larry Birkhead is opening up about their relationship, admitting it sometimes felt like "some kind of cult." "She did not want to share the spotlight she was getting and the attention she was getting with anybody else because that was where she felt loved," Birkhead, 53, revealed on the Sunday, March 22, episode of the "Dumb Blonde" podcast. "You're taking that love away when you're taking a piece of whatever [her fame] away. That's why I think she was the way that she was.