Lisa Brennan-Jobs made headlines last month when she revealed that Steve Jobs told her she 'smelled like a toilet' as he laid on his deathbed.
But now Lisa, who sprayed a rose mist on herself before visiting her billionaire father, revealed that what he said that day was actually true.
'I have to be clear about the toilet phrase,' she said during an interview with the Today Show's Hoda Kotb on Wednesday.
'I really did. I explain in the book, I was spraying myself with a natural rose water. So even though it wasn't a particularly nice phrase, it was true.'
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Lisa Brennan Jobs made headlines last month when she said Steve Jobs told her she 'smelled like a toilet' as he laid on his deathbed. Now she revealed she 'really did'
Lisa sprayed a rose mist on herself before visiting Jobs, who was dying from pancreatic cancer. While she said it wasn't a 'particularly nice phrase, it was true'. They are pictured here in 1987
The toilet remark is just one of many stories that are told in Lisa's new memoir Small Fry, which was released on Tuesday.
Jobs' daughter said it 'took a long time' to write the book about her childhood and complicated relationship with her father, but that she also enjoyed the process.
'It was really cathartic and in some ways very joyful to go back and spend time with my young parents,' she said.
'They were younger than I am now, so it was nice to do that.'
Lisa, 40, wrote about a number of painful moments with her father, including when her mother Chrisann Brennan had to call him and beg for money.
Little Lisa took the phone out of her mother's hand and said 'Just give her some money, okay?' before hanging up on her father.
'My aunt witnessed that scene,' Lisa told Kotb. 'I think I was kind of a tough little scrappy soul.'
Jobs' daughter said it 'took a long time' to write the book about her childhood and complicated relationship with her father, but that she also found it 'cathartic'
Lisa recalled one touching moment to Hoda Kotb when her father sat through her boyfriend's play, despite the fact that it was 'freezing cold' and he didn't have a sweater
'Sometimes you save things from your past that you don't quit understand. They're little boxes and you preserve them for later when you can unwrap them and try and understand what they meant. And I think this whole book was a way to understand.'
But despite the many difficult times, Lisa also remembers feeling 'profound love and admiration' for her billionaire father.
One time included when Jobs sat through her boyfriend's play in the 'freezing cold'.
'He didn't have a sweater,' Lisa recalled. 'And only he and I can know how cold that night was. And he didn't complain.'
'He sat through the whole thing because he knew how important it was to me.'
These were among the 'joyful, tender dear moments' that father and daughter were able to create after Jobs returned to Lisa's life, years after denying he was her father.
'He made the decision to come back and get to know me after he wasn't really around when I was younger,' she said.
'But I must have felt so confused and angry,' she added. 'It was some combination of these things.'
As he lay dying after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, Jobs turned tender toward his daughter and frequently apologized about the times they had 'missed together'.
Laurene Powell Jobs, the Apple founder's widow (pictured together in 2005), and his sister Mona Simpson released a statement speaking out against the book
'The thing he kept on saying was "I owe you one, and I'm so sorry'", Lisa recalled.
At the time Lisa didn't fully forgive him, saying she felt 'a little bit paralyzed'. But now, seven years on, those feelings have shifted.
'Do you forgive him now?' Kotb asked.
'In many ways, yes,' Lisa replied. 'I understand him more, and understand myself more.'
And if there was one thing Lisa could wish for, it would be for more time with her father.
'I lost the chance to have more friendship with him,' she said. 'I wish we'd had more time together, and I think he wished that too.'
'Because we did like each other, and when we spent time together and got along, it was great. I wish we had more time.'
While Small Fry has been a healing process for Lisa, her aunt and stepmom did not feel the same way.
Laurene Powell-Jobs, the Apple founder's widow, and his sister Mona Simpson released a statement speaking out against the book.
'Lisa is part of our family, so it was with sadness that we read her book, which differs dramatically from our memories of those times,' it read.
Lisa wrote unsparingly of her relationship with Jobs. Her mother Chrisann Brennan (right) was with him for five years but when she told him she was pregnant, he left her
She dove into detail of how Jobs ended things with her mother when she fell pregnant with Lisa, and later told everyone 'It's not my kid'
'The portrayal of Steve is not the husband and father we knew. Steve loved Lisa, and he regretted that he was not the father he should have been during her early childhood.'
'It was a great comfort to Steve to have Lisa home with all of us during the last days of his life, and we are all grateful for the years we spent together as a family'.
Lisa said she recognized that it is always difficult to 'read about your own life and your own experiences in someone else's words'.
'I've been written about since I was three years old,' she said. 'There have been books and movies since. It can be hurtful.'
'But when I was thinking about writing this book, I realize that people have a right to tell their own story as honestly and accurately as they can.'
And, Lisa added, there was far more to Little Fry than just the story of her father.
'In many ways, this is a coming of age story of a girl growing up in California in the 1980s and 90s,' she said.
'I think it's easy to forget - because there's this distraction of this famous person - that we all have complexity in our lives.'
'So if you're going to read the 400 pages, you have to buckle up for whispering in libraries, dangling earrings, and adolescent angst and all of that.'
Jobs's admission he was Lisa's father came only after an acrimonious court case which saw her subjected to DNA testing. The relationship he built with her was difficult until his death
Chrisann, an aspiring artist, supported them by working as a cleaner, waitress and babysitter at a church. By the time Lisa was seven she had moved 13 times around San Francisco
Lisa's book has been making a splash long before it hit bookshelves as she shared tale after tale of her famous but private father.
She dove into detail of how Jobs ended things with her mother when she fell pregnant with Lisa, and later told everyone 'It's not my kid'.
Acrimony and a court case followed during which Jobs took a paternity test and still denied that he was Lisa's father.
Lisa was forced to take a DNA test and in December 1980 Jobs was ordered to pay $385 a month in child support by the state of California.
The case had dragged on for months but in the final days Jobs' lawyers rushed to resolve it.
Four days later Apple went public and overnight Jobs became worth more than $200million.
There are stories of Jobs ripping apart a waitress over a carrot salad and telling Lisa she was going to 'get nothing' after she asked about his Porsche.
Jobs vacationed in Greece in 2006, posing with his second wife Laurene Powell-Jobs, daughters Eve and Erin and Lisa, the daughter he had once refused to acknowledge
She also recalled moments Jobs was cruel to his future wife, telling dinner guests when Laurene left the room that 'she doesn't have taste'.
Lisa said Small Fry is not just about her father, but also a coming age story as she grew up in California in the 1980s and 90s
In one painful memory, Lisa recalled the moment her younger half-sister Eve told a guest that she was 'daddy's mistake'.
But there were happy times as well. Lisa said she always felt a strong bond with Jobs, and said time spent together with always was 'electrical and magical'.
They would watch classic films and play the piano when she visited his house as a child, and he often took her out rollerskating.
And, when she was 27 years old and on vacation with her father in Bono's villa in the South of France, he finally admitted to naming an early Apple computer after her.
Over lunch Bono asked Jobs about the early years of Apple and whether or not he named the Lisa after his daughter.
'Yeah, it was,' Jobs replied.
Lisa was shocked and told Bono: 'That's the first time he's said yes. Thank you for asking'.
Days before he died, Jobs admitted that he wished he 'could go back' and change how he treated her.
'I didn't spend enough time with you when you were little,' he told her. I wish we'd had more time...now it's too late'.
Small Fry, A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs is available on Amazon.com.
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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