Dog's Most Wanted star David Robinson's daughter claims his wife banned her ... trends now

Hugging his granddaughters, tinkering with his beloved motorbikes and smiling alongside his daughters, this intimate collection of photos shows the softer side of Dog's Most Wanted star David Robinson, who died aged 50 last week.

But the cheerful photos bely a tragic family breakdown that left Robinson and his two daughters estranged for the last 18 months of his life – the result, they say, of problems caused by second wife Brooke, 46.

His daughters say Brooke went out of her way to eject them from their adopted father's life – and has now banned their mother Rainy, 62 - Robinson's ex-wife of 28 years - from his funeral following a fight that began when Rainy announced Robinson's death on Facebook.

Eldest daughter Mercedes Robinson Sutton, 37, who is speaking for the first time in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, said Brooke had even raged at her while Robinson lay dead on the floor of their Lodi, California, home – furious after seeing the social media post. 

Mercedes, a mother-of-three, also told how she had asked Brooke to place her cellphone next to her father's ear so she could say goodbye – but was refused and says her stepmother 'robbed' her of getting to say one last thing to the man who raised her. 

'When I talked to her as she was lying next to his dead body, I cried and I asked her to Facetime me so I could see him,' she told DailyMail.com. 

'She said: "no, I'm not going to do that to you". I said OK and asked her for a picture. She said: "no, I'm not going to do that to you".'

'She told me she was holding his hand – I said, send me a picture of your hands. I never got it. An hour later, I called and said, is he still there with you?

'She said: "yes, they haven't picked him up yet". I asked her to put the phone up to his ear so I could say some things.

'She said: "I can't do this, I can't do this", and hung up the phone. I never got to see my dad – I knew he was going to be cremated.

'They were going to send him to the morgue before he was cremated and I knew that was the last chance to see my dad. She robbed that from me.'

To add insult to injury, Brooke – enraged after Rainy announced Robinson's death on Facebook – then called Mercedes a further two times to say she was banning her mother from the funeral and demanding she take the post down.

Mercedes said: 'She called me two more times the day he died to call my mom to tell her to take things down from social media because she wasn't ready to announce it yet and people were calling her because of my mom.

'Asking my mom to do X, Y, and Z and then tell my mom she's not welcome at the funeral after what she did.

'She wanted me to tell my mom that on the day her husband died. Not graceful, not respectful, and extremely self-centered. 

'She's probably the most self-centered person in the world.'

Brooke later released her own statement on social media announcing Robinson's death. 

She revealed the reality star was 'on a work call in our dining room when he collapsed.' 

'Live saving maneuvers were attempted and paramedics were called. David died in my arms,' she added. 

Details for the funeral service are yet to be announced. 

Mercedes, who now lives in Washington State, is not Robinson's biological daughter but was adopted by him after he married her mother in 1995.

She told DailyMail.com of the man she called 'Pops' love of motorbikes and told how she would travel to races with him as a child.

She also remembered a loving father who helped her purchase a dress for her middle school prom and was completely soft with her, Rainy and her younger sister Royce, 34.

Mercedes said: 'I would travel around the state with him, weekend after weekend and go to all these races with him.

'There were times when I'd watch him crash at 200mph and my whole life, I thought he'd die on a race track – I didn't think he would die in his kitchen.

'This is a guy who went 240mph every weekend. Those are probably my fondest memories – before my adulthood, before I moved out.

'I was with him all the time. I was in the garage with him, I was on the racetrack with him, I was always I wanted to be like him so much – he was my idol. I was a real daddy's girl. 100 per cent. 

'Anything he said was like God talking – anything he said went and it must be right because he said it.

'For my middle school dance, he took me to get my first dress and first heels – he had to approve it so he took me to the mall to go shopping – all the typical dad things.'

Mercedes said she remained close to her father

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