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    How 'Ask Dr. Ruth' director Ryan White became 'friends for life' with the 90-year-old sex expert

    by Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times Jun 04, 2019 7 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - After devoting years of his life to making a seven-hour docuseries on child sex abuse in the Catholic church, Ryan White was in a dark place. He and his team had even worked on the Netflix project - called "The Keepers" - in a windowless office.

    "I felt like I was blinded," the director, now 37, recalled. "I was disoriented and felt dizzy - a little stuck on how to continue storytelling when that world was so sad and felt like it hadn't been fixed."

    Enter Dr. Ruth Westheimer. In 2017, just as "The Keepers" was being released, White was pitched the idea of making a documentary about the renowned sex and relationship therapist.

    He didn't know much about Westheimer, other than that the 90-year-old spoke candidly about sex in a thick German accent. But as soon as he met her for dinner near her home in New York, White said, he was certain she would be the "medicine" he needed to emerge from his depression.

    "Dr. Ruth coming into our lives - I just knew that type of energy would

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