In Vance’s best-selling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” he wrote that his late grandmother, whom he called “Mamaw,” helped keep ...

He was grateful for his Mamaw’s steady presence even as she struggled to raise two grandchildren well into her 70s. That boy grew up to be Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance ...

The vice president, amid a national epidemic of substance abuse, touts Beverly Aikins’ recovery from debilitating addiction.

Vice President JD Vance has spoken and written about his mother's addiction struggles. On Monday, he led a White House ...

As he did in his memoir, Vance credits his grandmother “Mamaw,” with helping him overcome a harrowing childhood. “I had a guardian angel by my side. She was an old woman who could barely ...

(Photo by Justin Merriman) Aikins’s mother, Bonnie Vance, “Mamaw” to JD Vance, was profoundly influential in her grandson’s life and helped raise JD with the help of his older sister ...

Vance was born in Middletown, Ohio where his father left when he was young and his mother battled a drug addiction. Growing up, he spent a lot of time with his grandmother, who he called Mamaw.

Republicans have reacted positively to the speech delivered by Donald Trump's running mate JD Vance. In a primetime speech, the Ohio senator vowed to fight for working-class Americans that he ...

An instant bestseller, Hillbilly Elegy told the story of Vance’s turbulent childhood with a drug addicted mother and hard-working grandparents (“Mamaw and Papaw”) who were from Appalachia but raised ...

Vance spoke about his pride in his mother ... noting that his grandmother, "Mamaw," stepped in to fill the gap. "She raised me in part because my own mother struggled with addiction for a ...