danniely dannielynn, anna nicole's legacy, entrusted to him. es she know how her mother >> the way i've told dannielynn in the past is that, your mom took some medicines and she might have not taken them correctly or the right way. and the doctors couldn't help her, and they tried. >> reporter: through her artwork dannielynn expresses a connection with the mother she's never known. the 10-year-old's words about her drawing brings her dad to tears. >> i'll let you read it, i can't read it. >> ever since my mother's death, a friend of hers said she would send me pretty but butterflies so butterflies chase me everywhere and i let the butterfly come out of my pencil and fly on my paper with its wings of the love. beautiful. so this is the way she thinks of her mother. being here with her through beautiful butterflies. >> it's her dealing with it her own way, her own pace. it takes a strong little girl to write something like that. >> reporter: for "nightline" i'm deborah roberts in louisville, >>> up next, shaquille o'neal and i have cookies on the