i'm attorney gloria allred. >> i'm attorney gloria allred. >> gloria allred. >> groria allred. >> reporter: sending shutters down the spine of the very rich, very powerful men her clients are taking on. helping to usher in the me too movement. >> roman polanski. >> donald trump. >> harvey weinstein. >> it appears that bill cosby thinks he is far from finished. but he should know that we are also far from finished with him. >> you were voted most persistent in high school. >> i was. >> reporter: persistent is perhaps the perfect word to describe firebrand attorney gloria allred. >> women depend on me to be strong. >> reporter: her lifelong feminism now the subject o of a highly touted new netflix documentary, "seeing allred." you say early in the movie there's a war on women. >> there is a war on women. and it has real-life consequences. >> reporter: a lot of your critics say oh, she's so theatrical, she's looking for the spotlight. >> i do believe that women must have a voice in the court of public opinion. so i make no apologies about that whatsoever. >> reporter: she says she resorts to

. >> i'm attorney gloria allred. >> a fierce advocate for equal rights, attorney gloria allred opens the way for today's "me too" movement. >>> plus, burning up the ice. team usa's adam rippon dazzling at the olympics, becoming the first openly gay athlete to compete for america in the winter games. >> there's still sort of a taboo, that being gay means you are weaker. that is absolutely not the case.

persistent in high school. >> i was. >> perhaps no better words to describe firebrand attorney gloria allredeans to be a feminist. >> a feminist is simply a person who believes in legal, social, political and economic equality for women with men. so, all of us should be feminists because for me the opposite of a feminist is a bigot. >> reporter: in "seeing allred," the new netflix documentary, we see her using her dogged in your face style to take on deadbeat dads. >> not paying child support. >> reporter: o.j. simpson. bill cosby. >> we deserve to know if mr. cosby is a sexual predator. >> reporter: she represents 33 of his accusers as well as some who accuse president trump of sexual misconduct. every press conference she calls, packed. >> a lot of your critics say, oh, she's so theatrical. she is looking for the spotlight. she's a media hog. how do you respond? >> i do believe that women must have a voice in the court of public opinion and i'm dedicated to helping women be able to have that voice. so i make no apologies about that whatsoever because without a voice, they will never ever b

. >> attorney gloria allred found herself looking at a remarkable message.ping the two sisters deal with their new identity issues, and there it was. the ping of a message on her blackberry. >> when i looked at the e-mail, i just couldn't even believe it. i looked at it about three times. am i really seeing this? >> it was a woman claiming to be the biological mother of both pepper and renee. claiming to be the woman who, according to shirley and barbara, was a child abandoning drug addled prostitute, probably dead. could this woman really be their mother? hardly a claim allred could take on simple faith. >> i asked her to come in and see me the very next day, which she was very anxious and happy to do. i asked her to bring whatever evidence she had. >> in that meeting, the woman presented her evidence. >> she brought some photos that she had of pepper and renee when they were very little. >> she told allred she had been a waitress when the girls were little. brought a photo of that, too, and a picture of shirley and also a photo of a man she said was the gi