Lorraine, 34, confessed while her father couldn't "connect" with her as a child, his much younger girlfriend willingly stepped into the role, subsequently "answering" his daughter's "prayers" by becoming her very own "Mary Poppins of Mulholland Drive."

The 34-year-old opened up about one of her father's most infamous relationships in an article for Vanity Fair.

Lorraine recalled the first time she met Boyle, now 54, when she was nine-years-old. The Twin Peaks star wore a thong bikini with flames and read a book while lounging in the pool.

Nicholson's daughter wrote: "That day, I was too afraid to speak to her. Instead, I watched her surreptitiously from the shallow end, as she read a book on a plastic raft, the wind gently pushing her back and forth across the surface of the water.

"Finally she had arrived, the answer to my prayers -- the Mary Poppins of Mulholland Drive."