Keith Powers on Therapy, Growth & Ryan Destiny
Baby, this is Keke Palmer
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Keith Powers kicks it with Keke! In this catch-up between longtime friends, Keith opens up about his mental health journey, choosing sobriety, and how therapy helped him understand himself on a deeper level. He also shares the story behind proposing to Ryan Destiny after a relationship setback that tested their bond, and reflects on the wisdom he gained from working with the late James Van Der Beek on their new thriller The Gates.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, y'all, you've seen my next guest in The New Edition Story. |
| 0:04.0 | You felt his chemistry opposite Gabrielle Union in The Perfect Find, |
| 0:08.0 | a performance that earned him an NAACP Image Award, |
| 0:11.0 | and now he's stepping into darker territory with the new thriller The Gates. |
| 0:16.0 | But what makes him stand out isn't just the roles. |
| 0:19.0 | It's how intentional he is about his life, the clarity, |
| 0:23.1 | the way he moves with purpose and his love, his craft, and his commitment to stories |
| 0:27.6 | that resonate beyond the screen. Keith Powers is here y'all, and we're getting into all of it, |
| 0:33.4 | because baby, this is Kiki Palmer. |
| 0:35.6 | No matter what we're doing in the car, just chilling, Pumbo, Amazon music, sit back and listen. Life, love, sex, science, covering it all, especially the bad because money always involved. No matter what it is, we're going to make it make sense. Nothing else will do but kick it with the homies and kids. So grab you a drink and a snack you with joy and get into the vibe that only one is your |
| 0:55.0 | girls. |
| 0:56.0 | Baby, this, this is Kiki. |
| 0:59.0 | Baby, this is Kiki Palmer, yeah. |
| 1:04.0 | Please welcome Keith Powers. |
| 1:08.0 | Ooh! |
| 1:09.0 | Hey, Kiddh! Oh my gosh, I don't know know I didn't realize you put your hair. Yes, I be. What made you cut your hair look good though? I got tired of it. Dealing with it, getting it ready, all that coming. Yeah. Waking up and it's all matted down. I'm so glad that you here. It's like, I'm like's crazy. It took a minute. I know. I feel like |
| 1:28.8 | it's the right time to be here too. Anytime I see a show that I'm like, yo, I would love to be on that show. I'm like, it got to be the right time. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? You got a new movie coming out. A lot of good things going on. I can't wait to get into it with you. But first we're going get into these pre-show pull-up questions. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Excuse my handwriting. I feel like so many |
| 1:45.9 | people probably say that. It's actually better than you would have with you, but first we're going to get into these pre-show pull-up questions. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Excuse my handwriting. |
| 1:45.1 | I feel like so many people probably say that. |
| 1:46.7 | It's actually better than you would imagine. Like, I feel like mine looks like chicken scraps. That's me when I was trying. I'm trying very hard for it not to look crazy right there. So obviously I know your sign because we go way back. Like when we've been friends for, like, 10, I mean, since I was like 21. |
| 2:00.5 | I feel like I met you when I was like 22. |
| 2:01.7 | There's been a minute. |
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