Gabrielle Union Completes Herself
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Podcasts
4.6 • 7.6K 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 |
| 0:04.5 | about her experience with sexual assault. If that's not something you want to listen |
| 0:08.4 | to right now, you might want to skip this one. |
| 0:11.4 | I really realized I put the shackles on myself, the shackles of fear, and it was choking |
| 0:17.8 | me. I was literally being snuffed out by my own fear, and it just took someone suggesting |
| 0:25.5 | that I had done that, where I was like, huh, it was under my, huh, moments. And I was like, |
| 0:31.8 | take the shackles off. Fuck it worked. And that was just my beginning. |
| 0:43.1 | This is Death, Sex, and Money. The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:51.5 | And I need to talk about more than Anna's sale. |
| 1:03.2 | Actor Gabrielle Union celebrated her 50th birthday last fall with a trip with family and friends |
| 1:09.0 | to Africa. There was a surprise birthday party in Cape Town. It reminded me that shortly before |
| 1:14.8 | her 45th birthday, we were on stage together in San Francisco, celebrating the release of her first |
| 1:21.3 | book of essays called, We're Gonna Need More Wine. In it, she describes breaking out in movies |
| 1:27.9 | like Bring It On, Getting Divorced in Her Mid 30s, and raising a family with her second husband, |
| 1:33.1 | former NBA star Dwayne Wade. And Gabrielle writes candidly about her struggle to get pregnant |
| 1:38.8 | in her 40s, and about being raped by a man who came into the payless shoe store where she was |
| 1:44.3 | working when she was 19. A year after we spoke, Gabrielle and Dwayne welcomed a baby via |
| 1:51.1 | surrogate. And she's since written a second book called, You Got Anything Stronger. Right now, |
| 1:57.2 | you can see here in the A24 movie The Inspection, and in the third season of Truth Be Told on Apple TV, |
| 2:03.8 | that revolves around a true crime podcast plot. We love a podcast plot. |
| 2:09.2 | My conversation with Gabrielle back in 2017 was on stage at an event hosted by Inforum at the |
| 2:15.3 | Common Wealth Club. And as you'll hear right at the beginning, we were speaking in the days right |
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