Dianne Lake speaks out about relationship with Charles Manson

The youngest member of the Manson family has opened up about her “loving” relationship with Charles Manson, the convicted mass murderer with whom she said she had sex at age 14.

Dianne Lake, now 64, described her former lover as “attractive,” and “loving” in an interview with “Good Morning America” Tuesday.

She said they had sex within hours of meeting one another when Lake was a teenager.

She described falling in love with Manson.

“He made you feel like you were his one and only love, you know?” Lake said. “And yes, there were other girls, but we all shared him. He made you feel really special, and specially loved.”

Lake appeared on the show to discuss her new memoir, “Member of the Family,” about her dark years as a victim and member of the Manson cult.

She said Manson, who was 34-years-old when they first met, slept with the minor within hours.

“It seemed very natural and loving and kind of like a game,” she said. “He was cute, impish. You know, fun.”

Lake lived with Manson for two years, alongside cult members Patricia Krenwinkel, Leslie Van Houten, Susan Atkins and Tex Watson, all of whom were later convicted of murder.

Lake said she knew nothing of Manson’s plan to kill, and that she was protected by Tex Watson whom she described as “more of a big brother to me.”

Lake recalled a shift in Manson’s focus from talk of love and peace to “Helter Skelter,” or race war.

She said she suffered years of psychological control in addition to physical and sexual abuse.

Manson allegedly handed out knives to each family member, Lake said.

She said they would enter people’s homes and rearrange their furniture to “mess” with their minds at their leader’s behest.

In August, 1969, over the course of two days, seven people, including Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, Stephen Parent, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring and actress Sharon Tate were all brutally murdered.

Lake said the cult described the gruesome murders to her without remorse.

“What I remember is that they gave me the gory details with a certain amount of glee or almost like bragging, which just made me feel even worse,” Lake recalled. “It was, like, ‘What? How could you do that?”

Lake was arrested two months after the murders.

“We were arrested in October and it wasn’t until December that I finally felt comfortable enough before the grand jury to tell them, “I’m Dianne Lake. I’m 16 and I want my mommy,” she said on Good Morning America.

Lake ultimately testified against Manson in court.

Manson, Watson, Atkins, Krenwinkel and Van Houten were all convicted and given the death penalty, which was later commuted to life in prison.

Van Houten was granted parole in September and is set to be released from prison.

Lake said she doesn’t fear for own safety if Van Houten is released.

“I’m not afraid for myself if she is granted or approved for parole,” Lake said. “I feel they originally all had the death penalty, and it’s between them and God at this point.”

Lake said that sharing her story was cathartic.

“It’s taken me this long really to get to the point where I can admit or have been able to realize that I really was a victim,” she said.

“I feel very unburdened and I feel untethered from the shame of being associated with this person who has become the icon of evil.”