Bernadette was friends with Lois Wilson the co-founder of Al-Anon and Bill Wilson's wife.
It was through her relationship with Lois that her husband Bill got the idea to write a screen play about Bill W. and the founding of AA. (Bill B's Story)
How that started, stalled, nearly died and miraculously was reborn to become My Name is Bill W starting James Garner, is a story in an of itself.
Bernadette's is a story of living with a alcoholic New York City newspaper man through and into his disease and back out together.
(29 min) (10 MB) (id#913)