Mariana van Zeller

And I called a sheriff's department person I interviewed the day before, and I told her what was happening.

And she said, call 911 immediately.

These are not people you want to be messing with.

So I call 911, and eventually I stop on the side of the road.

They stop next to us because they're dumbfounded.

They're like, what the fuck?

Why did they stop?

They have no idea that we ran out of gas.

And then the police comes up, and they ask them some questions, and they came up with this silly excuse, and they let them go.

And a few months later, they were taken down by this massive FBI investigation that was happening at the same time.

So I interview the guy, Curt McKenzie.

who was the investigator that knew of us at the time.

He realized, oh my God, there's like these crazy journalists that are doing this story at the same time as they were.

And we were actively trying to get them to talk to us, the FBI, and they couldn't because they had an active investigation.

But they actually tapped in, and American Pain, my husband's film, is all about that.

They did taps, wire taps, on all of these guys.

So they know everything, how they knew there were people dying, people ODing just outside their clinic, and how they were just kept going, and the doctors themselves as well.

There were dirty, dirty, horrible doctors that knew there were people dying, and they couldn't give a shit because they were making millions of dollars.

designed to be corrupt I mean how is it possible that you can go I remember I'll never forget interviewing the mother of a kid who had just died and then a few months later her other kid died so she had two sons and she lost both of them to this and it was all because of the pain clinics and she was showing me the pain but the painkiller bottles the prescription bottles that the kid got it was it was like hundreds and hundreds of pain pills that the kid got from just they were just selling them

2008, 2009, that's when we did our story.