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When Schreiber was one year old, his family moved to Canada.

According to Tell, at the beginning of their marriage, in San Francisco, Heather had a bad experience on LSD.

Over the next four years, she was repeatedly admitted to hospitals and underwent therapy.

After Tell threatened to admit her to a mental institution, she left.

As Tell pursued his wife, Liev and his mother were trailed by private detectives in various states ; when he was three, his father kidnapped him from an upstate New York commune where Heather had decamped.

By the time Liev was four, he was living with her on the fourth floor of a dilapidated walkup at First Avenue and First Street in New York City ( his half brothers from her first marriage were with their father in a duplex on Central Park West ), and he was the object of a fierce custody battle, which bankrupted his maternal grandfather, Alex Milgram.

( Milgram was the significant male in Schreiber ’ s youth.

He played the cello and owned Renoir etchings, and made his living by delivering meat to restaurants.

) When Schreiber was five, his parents divorced ; his mother won custody, and the two moved to a cold-water flat on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, New York City, where he was raised.

They frequently had no electricity, hot water, or even beds.