Kimberly Neronhobe had just started her dream job. She was working as an

addiction counselor in Salt Lake for the County Sheriff's Office.

Three days into working at the Sheriff's Department, I felt a pain in my

sight. The next week I was diagnosed with mesothelioma. It all happened so

fast. Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer almost always caused by one thing

asbestos. But Kimberly couldn't trace asbestos exposure to any of the places she

had lived or worked. The only explanation she testified to a Senate subcommittee

in February was baby powder. Baby powder sold by Johnson and Johnson.

Would she had used for years as a single mother on her seven children?

I had no idea I was exposing them and myself to the deadly asbestos in that

white plastic bottle that I associated with motherly love. But how would

asbestos have gotten into baby powder? The company may have known for decades

that it's baby powder sometimes contained asbestos which can cause cancer.

Separate investigations by Reuters and the New York Times in 2018 revealed

documents showing Johnson and Johnson worried for decades that small amounts of

asbestos lurked in its baby powder. That is because Talk, the main ingredient in

baby powder, is often found together with asbestos when mined in the earth. The

Talk can be contaminated with asbestos. When I learned that I could file a law

swoop and have it decided by a jury I saw pass forward for my family. But that

path has been cut short for Naron Ho and thousands of other people who make

the same claim that they also have cancer caused by J&J baby powder. I

learned that Johnson and Johnson filed for bankruptcy and that I would not

...