Family Secrets or Big Reveal? (with Kerry Washington)

Choice Words with Samantha Bee

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.3 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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When actress Kerry Washington’s parents told her a massive family secret five years ago, it shook her entire world. And despite being an extremely private person, Kerry decided to reveal this shocking information in her new memoir, “Thicker Than Water.” Sam and Kerry discuss how learning this truth helped Kerry truly know herself for the first time in her life and what made her want to share her story with the world. Plus, how Kerry feels about people’s inability to differentiate her from Olivia Pope and why Kerry was known as “the condom lady” in high school. Follow Kerry Washington @kerrywashington on Instagram and Twitter. Keep up with Samantha Bee @realsambee on Instagram and Twitter. And stay up to date with us @LemonadaMedia on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Apple Books has teamed up with Lemonada Media for an audiobook club. The October pick is "Thicker Than Water" by actress Kerry Washington. To get your copy of Kerry Washington's memoir, visit: http://apple.co/lemonadabooks For a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and every other Lemonada show, go to lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.3	To see that a lot is riding on where you were randomly born seems like a wild understatement.
1:02.5	In this country, it determines if your team Soda or Team Pop, what in-state University
1:08.3	of Access to and unfortunately what you are taught about sex.
1:11.5	Yes.
1:12.5	Of our Lord, 2023, there are no federal laws that lay out what or how sex that should
1:18.0	be taught.
1:19.0	It is entirely up to the states which is extremely unsexy.
1:25.2	You know what else is unsexy?
1:26.6	That in the U.S., you're more likely to receive sex ed that promotes abstinence than
1:31.4	is medically accurate, or that only 18 states require information about birth control be
1:37.0	shared, or that groups like Moms for Liberty are even now coming after the teaching of consent,
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