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Good Deeds

Nancy O'Dell Launches Charity in Memory of Her Mom

Originally posted 08/21/2009 03:30PM

This weekend, Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell is teaming up with the World Wrestling Entertainment's Summer Slam Weekend to celebrate the kick off of her new charity, Betty's Battle.

The charity is named in honor of O'Dell's mother Betty, who died in June 2008 at the age of 74, seven months after being diagnosed with ALS, also called Lou Gehrig's Disease.

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Health

Nancy O'Dell Recovering from Knee Surgery

Originally posted 03/24/2009 06:10PM

She's not quite ready to hit the dance floor yet, but Nancy O'Dell is on the path to recovery!

The Access Hollywood co-host, who had to pull out of Dancing with the Stars before the season premiere earlier this month, is resting at home after knee surgery.

"I feel pretty good considering I just had surgery a few days ago!" O'Dell tells PEOPLE, revealing she had torn her meniscus in two places and had arthroscopic knee surgery March 20.

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Nancy O'Dell Grieves the Death of Her Mom

Originally posted 06/12/2008 12:25PM

Access Hollywood host Nancy O'Dell is mourning the loss of her mother, Betty, who died at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in Myrtle Beach, S.C., last weekend after a battle with ALS. She was 74.

Elizabeth "Betty" Sawyer Humphries, a lifelong South Carolinian and a retired schoolteacher, was diagnosed with ALS, a neuromuscular disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, last November. In April, O'Dell opened up about her mom's illness with the hope of raising awareness. "Right now, there is no cure,” she told PEOPLE at the time.

In a statement on Access Hollywood's Web site, Betty was remembered as "relentlessly positive, with a strong faith in God and never an unkind word. The silver linings in this deeply painful time for Nancy are these – it was quick after diagnosis so Betty didn’t suffer much and thus her mom will be remembered as she was known: full of life and love."

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Babies

Halle Berry Gets Access to Parenting Advice

Originally posted 04/12/2008 09:30AM

New mom Halle Berry is getting by with a little help from a friend who knows something about parenting – and Hollywood.

"We've e-mailed, and she's loving motherhood," Nancy O'Dell told PEOPLE at Thursday's National Lampoon's One, Two, Many premiere in Hollywood. Berry, 41, gave birth to daughter Nahla Ariela Aubry last month.

"She is loving every minute of it, couldn't be any happier," Access Hollywood host O'Dell, who is friends with Berry, says. "She's going to be such a great mom."

O'Dell, 42, who herself gave birth last June to daughter Ashby Grace, sent Berry a lengthy e-mail of motherly advice – and the Oscar-winning actress replied with thanks.

"I sent her a whole page e-mail about things I wish friends had told me," O'Dell says. "I said, 'I wish people had given me this advice. They didn't, so I'm going to give it to you.' She was appreciative, really appreciative."

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Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell Has a Girl

Originally posted 06/11/2007 02:00PM

Access Hollywood host Nancy O'Dell and husband Keith Zubchevich welcomed a baby girl, Ashby Grace, on Monday, O'Dell tells PEOPLE.

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