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The Breakfast Club

INTERVIEW: Nicole Paultre Bell Talks 'Aftershock' Film, Remembering & Honoring Sean Bell, Motherhood + More

The Breakfast Club

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Comedy

4.414.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human. Hold on. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The breakfast club. Are you all finished or y'all's done? Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Salomey and the guy. We are the breakfast club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. We have Nicole Bell. Welcome. Good morning. How you feeling this morning?

0:22.8

I'm feeling great.

0:23.8

Glad to be here.

0:24.6

Absolutely. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. We have Nicole Bell. Welcome.

0:21.0

Good morning.

0:21.8

How you feeling this morning?

0:22.8

I'm feeling great. Glad to be here.

0:24.4

Absolutely.

0:25.4

We got a new movie, Aftershock.

0:27.2

The Nicole P. Bell story, which is November 28th.

0:31.5

When you decided to tell this story through film,

0:34.3

what truth did you feel America still didn't understand about what happened

0:38.4

is Sean? I think America doesn't understand what the families really go through behind the scenes.

0:44.1

For me, I was 22 years old. Sean was only 23 when he was killed and we had two small daughters.

0:50.7

My daughters at the time were baby girls. So going through the years of fighting for justice, the levels of government, state trial,

1:02.0

federal investigation, departmental hearings, civil, and then reforms, fighting for reforms,

1:10.0

that takes a toll.

1:11.6

And as a 22-year-old young woman, surrounded by the nation who supported us,

1:16.6

my family, the community, it was, that's what really empowered me to move forward.

1:23.6

And what I think a lot of people need to understand is that many people want to tell their stories.

1:27.8

People want their stories heard. And we don't really know how, what outlet, but I'm blessed to get a chance to meet people like Manny and give us the opportunity to put this real life story now on screens for people to see and see what really happened behind the scenes.

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