“EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE”

[Sara Huizenga]

“EVERY F---ING DAY OF MY LIFE”

RECORDS ONE WOMAN’S FINAL DAYS OF FREEDOM AS SHE PREPARES TO BE INCARCERATED FOR MANSLAUGHTER IN THE DEATH OF HER ABUSIVE HUSBAND WHEN THE DOCUMENTARY DEBUTS DEC. 14, EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO

In the early-morning hours of May 1, 2005, Wendy Maldonado, a mother of four in Grant Pass, Ore., called 911 in hysterics. “I just killed my husband,” she confessed, adding, “I just want my kids to be safe.” When the operator asked how long her husband had abused her, Maldonado replied, ““EVERY F---ING DAY OF MY LIFE”.”

Debuting MONDAY, DEC. 14 (10:00-11:15 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO, the documentary “EVERY F---ING DAY OF MY LIFE” follows Maldonado and her family in the days before she begins serving a ten-year sentence for the crime. Alternately shocking and heartbreaking, the film tells the story of one woman’s fateful decision to make a new life for her and her children at any cost, even her own freedom.

The film records Wendy’s final days of freedom as her mother, sisters and friends surround and support her, and help prepare sons Joshua, Marshall and Tyler for life without their mother. Drawing on intimate family footage, the documentary paints a revealing portrait of the seemingly desperate conditions that drove Wendy and son Randy to plead guilty to manslaughter in connection with the killing of Aaron Maldonado.

Through startling anecdotes from family members and neighbors, crime scene photos, early home-video footage and interviews with Wendy and Randy (who is already incarcerated), “EVERY F---ING DAY OF MY LIFE” sheds light on what it may have been like to live in the turbulent Maldonado home before the crime. Both Wendy and Randy express their deepest desire to do whatever is needed to protect the other boys. In one interview, Wendy likens her situation to chewing “a hole in a cage so you could all get out,” going on to say, “All I did was, like, chew off my leg ‘cause it was caught in a bear trap and run…get outta there with all the kids.



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Click here to view the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlqELHHKCl8

Don’t miss this powerful documentary and the tragic story of Wendy Maldonado and her children as they try to escape a life of domestic violence when "Every F---ing Day of My Life" premieres Monday, December 14th on HBO.

[judy]

i have been there, i know her fear, my abuser died three week ago, i used to wish someone would come and tell me he was dead, i thought many times about doing what wendy did. you have to live with her fear to understand,

[Cheree]

When i lived with my father i used to say to myself that i wished my dad and cousin would die. I knew i never meant to say it about him but i did. I used to ask god to take me away from him but it never happened. Being abuse and raped can be very traumatic and you do have a lot of hate towards many people and or no trust in others but killing or hurting them isnt the way out. I wish that this woman could have just left with her kids while her husband was away.