Did anyone watch the HBO documentary 'There's something wrong with Aunt Diane'?

[Lisa loves Pooh]

He is suing the state, claiming that poor road signage contributed to the crash.
He is also suing his bil (Diane Schulers brother) , she was driving his minivan the day of the accident. All 3 of bil children were in the van & died in the accident.

I was once in the paTh of an oncoming car. It was nighttime and we are just about on Disney property. The car then proceeded to spin out of control into the grassy median. Then he floored it and spin across the road to the shoulder and when he was done, continued in our direction. It was interesting (and necessary) to figure out how to completely get out of his way. During the spin out to the shoulder, I was able to help my friend navigate past. Once those few seconds elapsed and we were safe, we called 911. The last we saw, he was entering I-4 from a ramp exiting I-4.

All the signs in the world will not direct an impaired driver. And impaired drivers won't notice the wrong way signs where they enter a road via an exit ramp.

I cannot imagine the horror those kids went through.

After watching the Today interview with the producer and the husband's sister, I was concerned with how they might have portrayed how she didn't cause the accident. While I cannot watch it (no HBO), I am satisfied that it seems the producer produced a real documentay and not one heavily skewed to one side. If it were, folks would be reacting more in favor of Diane than against her.

The husband does not help anyone with his denial.

And I don't know what he and his sister are thinking. The son was so young, and suffered serious trauma...he won't be able to tell what really happened now let alone years from now.

Also--the sister kept mentioning the headaches, problems seeing...people heavily intoxicated can experience both.

 

[Aisling]

He even suggested that she could have drank the vodka mistaking it for water. It's sad to see such extreme denial.

Holy cow! Now that's a stretch. Either that guy is in serious grief and needs help asap, he's using the tragedy to make money or he's trying to protect his wife's reputation of being perfect. Very interesting to see how this will turn out.

 

[Goofyluver]

In the documentary, the husband of Diane Schuler hired his own private investigator into the crash. They had the blood/tissue samples re-tested, and the results were the same. They even went so far as to have the samples DNA tested, because the husband thought they were mixed up by the medical examiner, and possibly not even his wife's samples. DNA proved they were, indeed, hers. Now, he is looking for a medical reason she would have drank all that alcohol - such as a tooth abscess causing a brain infection and making her totally unaware of what she was doing. He even suggested that she could have drank the vodka mistaking it for water. It's sad to see such extreme denial.

I wonder what the medical reason was for tokin' on a doobie whilst she drank her alcohol?

 

[aprilgail2]

He even suggested that she could have drank the vodka mistaking it for water. It's sad to see such extreme denial.

Oh come on--one mouthful and you know its vodka! Just like when they claimed she had a lump that moved aroudn in her leg--He just didnt want to face the fact that the wife did this to those children!
The police were posted in front of his house for weeks after the crash- you couldn't drive down the street without seeing cop cars in front of his house!

 

[Aisling]

I wonder what the medical reason was for tokin' on a doobie whilst she drank her alcohol?

Yeah, right??

The family admitted she smoked pot in the evenings for pain relief (I think from migraines??), so it's not like she never put a joint to her lips.

Maybe he should stop the litigation, let his wife have her dignity and admit she's human and made a terrible mistake. He's making it worse for her memory and for the survivors.

 

[CaliforniaDreamin]

I wonder what the medical reason was for tokin' on a doobie whilst she drank her alcohol?

She thought it was a cigarette.

 

[tlbwriter]

If she could think vodka was water, I'm sure she could think a joint was a cigarette...

 

[shaylyn]

The story has been on my mind since I watched the show a few days ago.

The website that they showed the family looking at, People you will see in He!!, suggests that she got high & drunk on purpose, intending to commit murder/suicide with a car accident.

 

[spacemountainmom]

I didn't see the HBO show, but read an article in one of my magazines that interviewed the mother of the three sisters who died. It was a very heart wrenching story.

I cannot believe the lengths the bil is going to. Can't he see that he is causing more pain and suffering?

My thoughts and prayers are with the parents of those beautiful girls.

 

[Aisling]

She thought it was a cigarette.

I shouldn't laugh, but

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

The story has been on my mind since I watched the show a few days ago.

The website that they showed the family looking at, People you will see in He!!, suggests that she got high & drunk on purpose, intending to commit murder/suicide with a car accident.

Sounds much more reasonable than the other far fetched scenarios the family is thinking are plausible.

What a horrible way to do it, though if that were a scenario.

 

[AlwaysMoving]

I was multi-tasking while watching, but did I hear the blond woman correctly?

Did she say Diane's husband told her he was angry at Diane for leaving him to raise the boy and that he never wanted kids? (or something like that)

 

[NikitaZee]

I was multi-tasking while watching, but did I hear the blond woman correctly?

Did she say Diane's husband told her he was angry at Diane for leaving him to raise the boy and that he never wanted kids? (or something like that)

Yes, that's what she said. Sad.

 

[Goofyluver]

I was multi-tasking while watching, but did I hear the blond woman correctly?

Did she say Diane's husband told her he was angry at Diane for leaving him to raise the boy and that he never wanted kids? (or something like that)

She also said something similar to the fact that he was hesitant to discuss his wife with the son or that he didn't cry over the deaths because "it didn't help anything"...

 

[AlwaysMoving]

Yes, that's what she said. Sad.

That is what I thought. So, my conclusion is that Diane was not only the breadwinner, but she was expected to take care of the house AND the kids. Too much on her plate. The stress drove her to become an alcoholic and frequent pot user. My guess is the husband is doing this investigation, not to clear her reputation, but to avoid having people point the finger at him for playing a part in the outcome.

 

[Aisling]

Sounds much more reasonable than the other far fetched scenarios the family is thinking are plausible.

What a horrible way to do it, though if that were a scenario.

Wow, suicide? I haven't heard that! I was thinking accidental OD, that she'd probably combined pot and alcohol before but never got that high.

How very disturbing if it were a suicide.

 

[Imzadi]

The son was so young, and suffered serious trauma...he won't be able to tell what really happened now let alone years from now.

I feel sorriest for the son. He not only was his mother impaired and caused a crash killing 8 people, his father seems mentally impaired too now. What is his father telling him? What will he tell him in later years? That his mother didn't do it? Like that is helping his son?

And if the father is spending all this money filing frivolous lawsuits, he will probably end up bankrupt. Great way to take care of his son's future. BOTH parents were real winners.

 

[sparklynails23]

For the people who want to diagnose her with a psychiatric disorder after the fact because her mom left when she was young, you could probably dig up some sob story in every drunk driver's past. That doesn't excuse the behavior of an adult. She chose to get drunk and high. Even if she were in pain from a tooth abcess, she could have made another choice. Even if she committed suicide, she killed those kids. She could have made another choice.

 

[aprilgail2]

I feel sorriest for the son. He not only was his mother impaired and caused a crash killing 8 people, his father seems mentally impaired too now. What is his father telling him? What will he tell him in later years? That his mother didn't do it? Like that is helping his son?
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I feel sorry for the son too-the two or three times I saw him in passing he had an eye patch on- I sure hope that they have him in therapy!

 

[AlwaysMoving]

For the people who want to diagnose her with a psychiatric disorder after the fact because her mom left when she was young, you could probably dig up some sob story in every drunk driver's past. That doesn't excuse the behavior of an adult. She chose to get drunk and high. Even if she were in pain from a tooth abcess, she could have made another choice. Even if she committed suicide, she killed those kids. She could have made another choice.

She pulled over on the side of the road at that bridge. She could have stayed there and called for help. She could have gone to an ER. Anything would have been better.

I wonder what was going on with her when it came to her childhood friends. They seemed rather secretive when it came to the details of Diane no longer being close to them. Could it be drug use or something about her husband?

Looking into the family defending Diane that she could not have been drinking, maybe I am looking too much into this, but did anyone catch the part where the blonde woman left that building and as she smoked, she said nobody knew she smoked? I mean, if she was keeping her smoking habit a secret, did she not think Diane could be a closet alcoholic?

This documentary was meant to uphold Diane's reputation, but instead, all the unanswed questions and gaps in the story just made her look more guilty.