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Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson began working for Maggie and Alex Murdaugh as a housekeeper in 2007

In her new memoir about her life with the family, she writes about how kindly the family always treated her

She says she and Maggie's friendship deepened when people began shunning her after son Paul's 2019 boat crash that claimed the life of Mallory Beach, 19

Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson likens her friendship with her late boss, Maggie Murdaugh, to a sweet-natured housewife and her maid portrayed in the 2011 Academy Award-winning movie, The Help .

In the movie, based on Kathryn Stockett's bestselling book of the same name, a Black housekeeper named Minnie (played by Octavia Spencer ) gets blackballed by her former employer and starts working for Celia, (played by Jessic

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