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 My Name Was Bette: The Life and Death of an Alcoholic

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My Name Was Bette: The Life and Death of an AlcoholicItalic text is a 2011 American documentary film about women's alcoholism that chronicles the progression of the disease in Bette VandenAkker -- a nurse, wife, and mother -- who died in the fall of 2007.

Filmmakers Sherri VandenAkker -- Bette's daughter -- and Josh WE Hays examine women's risk factors for developing alcoholism and relapsing from sobriety; depict the physiological damage women suffer from drinking, due in part to their hormones; explore the stigma, guilt and shame the prevent women from seeking timely treatment; and offer hope for healing relationships strained by the disease.

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