'Ever since her death, she sends me butterflies': Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn reveals how the mother she never knew stays close to her heart on 10th anniversary of her death

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Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn is speaking out about her famous mother in a rare interview to commemorate the 10th anniversary of her tragic death.

The precocious fifth grader is featured in an episode of ABC's 20/20 that is dedicated to Anna Nicole and will air on Friday night, appearing alongside her father Larry Birkhead.

Dannielynn does not say much about her mother in the interview, choosing instead to talk about her love of french fries and desire to visit Washington DC, but her father later reveals the unique relationship between mother and daughter. 

An emotional Birkhead at one point produces a poem that Dannielynn wrote about Anna Nicole that he asks host Deborah Roberts to read, explaining that he is too overcome to try and read it aloud himself.

'Ever since my mother's death, a friends of hers said she would send me pretty butterflies,' reads Dannielynn's poem, which is written on a colorful drawing of a butterfly resting on a flower.

'So butterflies chase me everywhere, and I let the butterflies come out of my pencil and fly on my paper with their wings of love.'

Anna Nicole passed away due to an overdose of prescription pills in February of 2007, when Dannielynn was just five months old.

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Rare interview: Dannielynn Birkhead, 10, is speaking about her mother Anna Nicole Smith in a new interview

Baby girl: Anna Nicole's only daughter was just five-months-old when the model and reality star died of a prescription drug overdose in 2007 (Anna Nicole and Dannielynn in November 2006)

Thoughts: She wrote a poem recently about her mother, saying: 'Ever since my mother's death, a friends of hers said she would send me pretty butterflies'

Birkhead also uses the interview to dispel some misconceptions about Anna Nicole's usage of prescription medication.

'There’s this big misconception that Anna was on street corners looking for heroin or crack … and she had a doctor treating her for pain,' says Birkhead said. 

'She has prescription medication … she had pain from her breast enhancement surgery, from her back … she had chronic pain … she had seizures.'

He then added though: 'Now, did she take it like she was supposed to? No.' 

Birkhead's worries about Anna Nicole's pill usage later increased when he learned that she was pregnant.

'I was concerned that she was - the medications that she was taking and what impact it would have on our child at the time,' he explained, noting that he found out that she was with child just like the rest of the world when she posted a video on her website.

Anna Nicole gave birth to Danielynn on September 7, 2006 in the Bahamas.

Three days later, her son Daniel died due to a lethal combination of two antidepressants and methadone.

The 20-year-old firstborn of Anna Nicole had flown down to meet his sister and was sleeping in his mother's hospital bed when he passed away.

Paying tribute: The fifth-grade student and her father Larry Birkhead (above) were interviewed for a 20/20 special set to air Friday night

Tragedy: Anna Nicole lays next to son Daniel while he holds Dannielynn two days after her birth on September 9, 2007. Daniel died the following day. 

Final resting place: Pall bearers take the casket carrying the body of Anna Nicole to Mount Horeb Cathedral for a funeral service in Nassau on March 2, close to a month after her death

Birkhead was not present for the birth, due to the fact that there were questions over who the father of the child was, but spoke to Anna Nicole on the phone after Daniel's death.

'She would have these conversations where she would start crying,' he said. 

'And she’d say something about Daniel, and she’d hang the phone up.'

He said that she later tried to crawl into Daniel's coffin at his funeral.

'I knew that Anna would be in no shape on her own after losing Daniel, as close as they were, to take care of my daughter,' said Birkhead.

The father however was reported to be Howard Stern, Anna Nicole's attorney and a familiar face to viewers of her reality show. 

Two weeks after Daniel's death the two were made domestic partners in a ceremony, but five months later Anna Nicole was dead.

She was just 39 at the time. 

Mirror image: A young Anna Nicole (above) looked just like daughter Dannielynn

Birkhead, who has said many times in the past that he believes Anna Nicole died of a broken heart, eventually won custody of Dannielynn, and since then has been raising her in Kentucky. 

And in a shocking twist, Birkhead has revealed that despite their heated legal battle and Stern are friends once again these days. 

The reunion between the two came Birkhead said when Stern learned he was not the father of Danielynn. 

'The minute after the paternity test was over ... he’s helping me change Dannielynn’s diaper, [showing me], "This is how you feed her,"… it’s been nonstop since then,' said Birkhead.

He and Danielynn now live in Kentucky away from the limelight, and Birkhead is making sure that his daughter will not follow in her mother's shoes.

'I've had companies call me since then and ask me for her to model. And the answer's no,' said Birkhead. 

'She doesn't show any interest in it. And some parents might say, "Oh my gosh, you know, Anna Nicole was her mom? This is the gravy train. Let's roll with this." You know? But it's nothing that she wants to do … she wants to be a kid.'

The single father also shared the advice he has given his daughter. 

'Excess is not always the best. Be careful who's around you … be good, be caring. Give back,' said Birkhead.

'You don't have to be a star to shoot for the stars.'