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Erin Brockovich's famous settlement and the Julia Roberts-starring movie made her a household name — but back in Brockovich's actual home, it took a toll on her family, she and her daughter reveal in a new interview.

The story of Brockovich, now 60, is well-known Hollywood lore: she helped the residents of Hinkley, California win a $333 million groundwater contamination settlement with the energy company Pacific Gas & Electric, a journey that got the Oscar-winning movie treatment with help from Roberts in 2000.

But at home — where she was raising three children — Brockovich's time in the spotlight "had a big toll," she says in the upcoming ABC primetime special The Real Rebel: The Erin Brockovich Story, which chronicles her return to Hinkley for the first time in 10 years.

"I mean, I had to work. I wasn't making a fortune," she says in a clip shared exclusively wi