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Lovers and Friends with Shan Boodram

106: Kerry Washington: We Are as Sick as Our Secrets

Lovers and Friends with Shan Boodram

Lovers and Friends with Shan Boodram

Sexuality, Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness

55.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Kerry Washington, you read right. Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington. In support of the second season of her hit show UnPrisoned on Hulu Onyx Collective, Kerry stopped by Lovers and Friends to discuss what she learned from Paige, how learning that her biological father was a sperm donor changed her family for the better, therapy with her parents and husband, how real parents should get with their kids, her parenting philosophy and more. If you loved Kerry Washington in any of her classics, like Scandal or Django Unchained OR if you read her book Thicker Than Water, you will LOVE UnPrisoned and furthermore, this raw interview on the power and potential that comes when you heal the family by not being afraid to hurt or disappoint one another. Of course I couldn’t have Kerry Washington stop by and NOT talk about sex, reproductive rights and pole dancing - so expect that too :). ALSO relationship expert and UnPrisoned creator Tracy McMillan stops by to discuss the power of intuition.


Watch the trailer to UnPrisoned

https://youtu.be/HIn14DY9eFA?si=2VxtEkm6V6_UT3kx


Watch UnPrisoned

https://www.hulu.com/series/unprisoned-5b48cecb-15b5-4e06-b475-f2ac5a64bd24


Follow Kerry Washington

https://www.instagram.com/kerrywashington/?hl=en


Watch her YouTube Show Street You Grew Up On

https://youtu.be/Omh270yZLbU?si=Fof717hAfW9Fz8iA


Read her Memoir Thicker than Water

https://www.amazon.com/Thicker-than-Water-Kerry-Washington/dp/0316497398


Follow Tracy McMillan
https://www.instagram.com/tracymcmillan/


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

0:05.9

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized

0:10.2

tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

0:13.1

All right.

0:14.0

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

0:16.8

And don't get us started on Mel.

0:19.4

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

0:22.8

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat.

0:25.8

Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.

0:28.1

P and Dau Ferris, there is another way.

0:30.4

People were coming at you after your book came out,

0:32.6

thicker than water and being like,

0:33.6

oh, you're so brave, you're so brave.

0:35.8

Yeah, at first when people were saying you're so brave,

0:39.9

because of the old patterns that are so ingrained in me and my family of like we we keep a secret we don't we we don't air our dirty laundry right like when people would say you're brave, I thought they were throwing shade at me like,

0:56.0

you've done something you shouldn't have done. That's how it felt, like, oh you're so brave and that's not okay. And that's not what people were saying. I mean, there

1:06.2

may be somebody who feels that way. I'm sure, in fact, I know that there were people who

1:11.6

felt that I maybe shared too much, even though there may be dynamics at play

1:16.5

where other people feel shame because of my courage, that doesn't mean that I have to feel ashamed of my choice to be brave about my life

1:26.0

and taking control of my narrative.

1:30.3

You know what too? I'm from Toronto and it's an insult actually like a

1:35.0

Caribbean insult to be like wow guy you're brave like and to be brave means like

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