Here’s what you need to know, then, about Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me.

What is Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me about?

Throughout the 2000s, Smith’s life provided ceaseless tabloid fodder, including the public battle for her late husband’s estate, drug addiction, paternity lawsuits and her first child’s untimely death. She died in a Florida hotel room in 2007 after accidentally overdosing on prescription drugs.

This new documentary, however, takes us back to the very beginning of the Anna Nicole Smith story. To the early days, when she was just a young Vickie Lynn Hogan.

Blending home movies and interviews, it attempts to get to the heart of who Anna Nicole Smith was, from her childhood to how she handled the fame she’d always wanted. In the process, it claims to finally “bring Anna Nicole’s own voice to the foreground”, with the film including never-before-seen footage from an unreleased documentary about a young Smith balancing motherhood while on the verge of global stardom.

“Bringing surprising revelations to the story of an icon, the film will include testimony from those who knew Anna Nicole best when the cameras weren’t rolling – many of whom have never shared their full story until now,” the streamer teased in an official announcement.

What are people saying about Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me?

“I want audiences to understand that Anna Nicole was a complex woman,” says director Ursula Macfarlane (The Lost Sons, Untouchable), in a new interview with Tudum.

“She was someone who above all else wanted to be a good mother and a free-spirited exuberant woman who wanted to live life on her own terms. But her story is also a cautionary tale about how the desire for the American dream can swallow you up and spit you out, blurring your self-image and make you lose sight of your authentic self.”

Netflix’s Anna Nicole Smith documentary claims to finally give “one of the most misunderstood women of our time” a voice