Correspondent Rita Braver with actress Laura Dern and her mom, actress Diane Ladd. "And ourselves at the same time," added Ladd. "I think we share the longing for the people we love – and anyone - to have the experience we had," Dern said, "which was to know each other better, more deeply." The discussions were newly-recorded for an audiobook version.īraver asked, "Why did you decide to make these very private conversations public?" So, they walked, and they talked, with Dern taping the conversations for herself and her children. The daily walks began when Ladd developed a lung disease, believed to be caused by exposure to pesticides.ĭern was told her mother only had six months to live: "They didn't know what they could do, except if we could get her to walk, it would help her expand her lungs." The story of how their book – conversations they had while taking walks in Santa Monica – is worthy of a Hollywood film.
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