Death, Sex & Money - Gabrielle Union Completes Herself
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The actor talks about having agency over her body, her relationships and her career, even as she lives with the trauma of sexual assault and infertility.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Anna. I want to let you know that in this episode, I talk with Gabrielle Union about her experience with sexual assault. |
| 0:07.0 | If that's not something you want to listen to right now, you might want to skip this one. |
| 0:11.1 | I really realized I put the shackles on myself, the shackles of fear, and it was choking me. |
| 0:18.7 | I was literally being snuffed out by my own fear. |
| 0:22.9 | And it just took someone suggesting that I had done that, |
| 0:26.9 | where I was like, huh. |
| 0:29.1 | It was one of my, huh, moments. |
| 0:30.8 | And I was like, take the shackles off. |
| 0:35.4 | Fuck, it worked. |
| 0:36.6 | And it was, that was just my beginning. |
| 0:42.7 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:47.4 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:53.1 | I need to talk about more than Anna Sale. |
| 1:03.1 | Actor Gabrielle Union celebrated her 50th birthday last fall |
| 1:07.4 | with a trip with family and friends to Africa. |
| 1:10.0 | There was a surprise birthday party in Cape Town. |
| 1:12.7 | It reminded me that shortly before her 45th birthday, we were on stage together in San Francisco, |
| 1:19.5 | celebrating the release of her first book of essays called We're Gonna Need More Wine. In it, |
| 1:26.1 | she describes breaking out in movies like Bring It On, |
| 1:29.1 | getting divorced in her mid-30s, and raising a family with her second husband, former NBA star Dwayne |
| 1:34.7 | Wade. Anne Gabrielle writes candidly about her struggle to get pregnant in her 40s, and about |
| 1:40.8 | being raped by a man who came into the Peleash shoe store where she was working when she was |
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