Melcher alleged that his father's divorce from his mother prevented him from meeting Doris. They discussed the idea of Melcher and Day reunitingdespite the family enduring a divorce. Hollywood star Doris Day and her record producer son Terry Melcher in 1974. "The story with the grandson is so weird," he says. "No funeral, no memorial and no [grave] marker," Bashara said. Melcher also helped his mother with her business affairs and her charitable efforts, including the Doris Day Animal Foundation (via The New York Times). Pointing to Melcher's claims that Bashara had isolated Day from friends and family, the neighbor . However, Charley Cullen Walters, who worked on Day's 2011 album "My Heart" and managed her publicity, had a different side to the story in an interview. Instead, he chose to go by the last name Day's third husband, Martin Melcher. He was born in New York city, the son of an 18-year-old Doris Day and her first (of four) husbands, trombone player Al Jorden. Known as "Terry", the boy was named by his mother after the hero of her favorite childhood comic strip, Terry and the Pirates. Day divorced Weidler in May 1949 after three years. American singer and actress Doris Day smiling as she signs her name in cement by her handprints, in front of Mann's (formerly Grauman's) Chinese. Doris Day, Movie Star Who Charmed America, Dies at 97 By 1959, a co-starring turn with Rock Hudson in "Pillow Talk" earned Day her first and only Academy Award nomination, according to Biography. He explained that some of the members passed away and had to be replaced. Controversy Over Doris Day's Final Days | Newsmax.com (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). He said that several of the original board members had to be replaced because they ultimately passed way, including Days former publicist, before he took on the role. She saw that the goats, lambs, horses, and other animals near the set were emaciated, and she refused to continue filming until they were all adequately cared for. Doris Day's Grandson Claims He Was Kept From Seeing Her for 14 Years But Not On Truth Social. Terrence Paul Jorden was born in New York City to singer-actress Doris Day and her first husband, trombonist Al Jorden.