Maya Kowalski’s 'medical kidnapping' and mother’s suicide was chronicled in a 2023 Netflix documentary Sophie Dodd is a writer for PEOPLE. She previously worked as an editorial assistant at PEOPLE ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During her first visit to the hospital, Maya's doctors did not fully understand her condition, or her mother's insistence that she ...

Maya Kowalski's harrowing health ordeal unraveled into a family tragedy when her mother, Beata Kowalski, died by suicide after being accused of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. The family’s painful story ...

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Maya Kowalski, the young woman at ...

Maya Kowalski was pictured socializing just days after her attorneys said she was too pain-ridden to appear at her $220 million malpractice trial against a Florida hospital. Last Friday, her lawyer ...