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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
0:08.5 | Today, is it safe to visit the U.S.? |
0:12.0 | Oh my goodness. So I started off acting when I was in my early 20s. I was working in film and |
0:25.6 | television and then I owned... You were very successful, right? You know, I mean, I wouldn't say that, |
0:32.3 | but I was a working actress. So in that world, I guess you can say that's successful. |
0:41.1 | But then I actually transitioned. I used to own bars and nightclubs. |
0:45.9 | So I went from film and television to bars and nightclubs to completely transitioning my life into health and wellness. |
0:53.4 | And that's what I'm dedicated to now. |
0:56.2 | I spoke to Jasmine Mooney a couple of days ago from her home in Vancouver. She works for a |
1:00.8 | company selling fancy water infused with mushrooms, ketones, something called neutropics. Anyway, |
1:07.0 | it's based in L.A. and Jasmine used to commute back and forth from Canada all the time, |
1:12.0 | though not without visa hassles. |
1:14.6 | One of my letters from my employer was missing a proper letterhead, and that was why I originally |
1:21.5 | got denied. |
1:22.1 | Like, it was something so minor to the point where he's like, you can come back tomorrow. |
1:27.0 | I didn't think it was that big |
1:28.6 | of deal, but now I realize how big of deal it is. Once you get one denial, it stays on your record, |
1:35.4 | and that just snowballs into many problems down the line. Late last year, she even lost her right to |
1:42.7 | work in the US. |
1:52.3 | I ended up getting my visa revoked because one of the beverages that Holy Water has has hemp in it. |
2:00.3 | And they said that as a Canadian citizen, I couldn't work for a company that used hemp. |
2:06.1 | About a month ago, after Jasmine had spoken to her lawyer, got her paperwork in order, |
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