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Legal Clerk and Environmental ActivistErin Brockovich came to prominence in the 1990s when sheTaken on Pacific Gas & Electric On groundwater contaminated in the city of Hinkley from southern California. The case resulted in a regulation of $ 333 million in 1996 - the largest trial on the United States direct action had seen. Four years later, his story was made in themovieErin Brockovich, featuringJulia Robert.

While Brockovich remained in the news as she continued to fight for environmental justice, his personal life has not been in the spotlight since the 2000 film. But in a new20/20 Special, she shares updates on her current life and is also interviewed next to her daughterElizabeth Brockovich, who is his only child with an old husbandSteven Brockovich. In the film, Erin is a single mother of three children, which was true to life - and Elizabeth has been described as a baby nicknamed "Beth" who Roberts often owned. Now Elizabeth is a 30 year old mother with children from his and she looks a lot like his famous mother. Read it to see them now.

Elizabeth and Erin are both appearing in the specialThe real rebel: the story of Erin Brockovich, which will broadcast on ABC on Thursday, June 10, June 10 in a preview shared byPeople, Elizabeth and Erin reflect the timeWhen the movie is out.

"I was just a little girl who had never treated like that," said Elizabeth in the clip. "So when my mother's movie came out, she was much more than normal." Erin added from his children: "I think it had a big toll. I mean, I had to work. I did not make a fortune. I did not see them too often. It was difficult for them."

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Elizabeth was only new whenErin Brockovich went out and many happened in his life since. NotablyElizabeth struggled with a drug use as a teenager, that she spoke publicly.

"When the film came out, she was gone all the time - on appearances or interviews," said Elizabeth ABC News from his mother in 2009 at the age of 17. "It was my time to go crazy", because she was not there. I will access the school; I drove with children who were under the influence. "

Elizabeth also admitted that she stole from her mother's money. "You hate to think that you have been fooled, but at a certain level, I was fooled," said Erin.

Elizabeth was then sent to a teenage treatment program. "I'm not definitely cured forever, but today I can tell you that I'm going to be sober because I'm happy and I'm happy with me and who I am," she said. She said. "If I take it one day at a time, I could then be sober for the rest of my life."

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"How did I get?" Elizabeth says in the clip of the new20/20special. "I think I'm fine. I'm still everywhere. Have three children and my oldest with special needs at 30 years old is a lot. But I think I arrived ok."

Erin, who was divorced three times, jokingly adds: "I guess I taught him to divorce." Elizabeth answers: "Yeah, very good to that now. She really learns to tell me how ... you fall, you come back."

In addition to Elizabeth, Erin has two children from his first marriage toShawn Brown, 38 years oldMast and 36 years oldKatie. They run private lives and Erin will not post photos of his children onHis Instagram pageBut she sometimes shares pictures of her grandchildren. In the past,Erin posted a photo of herself With all three of his children on Facebook. This shows them at Elizabeth's wedding nine years ago.

Erin continued toFound Brockovich Research & Consulting and Erin Brockovich Foundation, which is centered on drinking water. She is also a host author and podcast. His last book, released in 2020, is entitledSuperman does not come: our national water crisis and what we can do about it.

Erin spoke toToday In 2020 on howthe work to whom it has been shown inErin Brockovichwas just the beginning. "I can tell you, since this film is out, I have not stopped doing what I do," she says. "I think the last 20 years in many ways disturb me because if we come back to the city of Hinkley, California, in the film, it was just the tip of the iceberg. And I do not think I understood this that I realized what should come and have this conversation with you 20 years in the future to say that it is not so bad, it's much worse . And so little has been done. I could not really see when it would be everywhere. "

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