The myth that Cass Elliot died by choking on a ham sandwich ... “By the time she got back to her flat, it was evening the following day,” Elliot-Kugell told the BBC in a new interview.

It wasn't until 2008 that Chuck Day, the touring bassist for ... this ham sandwich has followed me my entire life." Elliot's daughter recently published My Mama, Cass: A Memoir, a moving account ...

Still, Cass Elliot carved a place for herself in pop culture ... No matter how badly I feel about my body one day, I still deserve to be in love with it the next. Like Mama Cass, I take up space ...