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'Love to Love You, Donna Summer:' Brooklyn Sudano on Her Mother's Attempted Suicide and Healing (Exclusive)

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, an HBO Original documentary offering an intimate glimpse at the artist's life on and off stage.Brooklyn Sudano, one of Summer's three children, teamed up with Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams to direct the documentary exploring the highs and lows of her mother's fame, giving fans a deeply personal portrait of the Queen of Disco before her death on May 17, 2012.«I had just become a mother.

I didn't have my mom. And so I was processing a lot of what that was like, and you know, what that might have been like for her because I was a working mom.

So there was that,» Sudano tells ET's Nischelle Turner when asked what inspired her to grant fans an in-depth look into her mother's life.«There were so many fans that would come up to me and share their stories.

And I did feel like she was kind of this mythical, mysterious person that people didn't really know who she fully was — I think they kind of saw this persona and didn't really understand just how much of an artist she was,» she adds. «And then, I think, as I started to reach out to people and talk to people, I realized that I needed to be part of the directing team because I think they intrinsically trusted me to tell their truth.

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