4.8 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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In an exclusive interview, the actress details the sex, drugs, abuse and toxic relationships that afflicted her adolescence and young adulthood as she was becoming a star. Plus, more revealing details from Mena's new memoir, The Great Peace.
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0:00.0 | Hey you guys, welcome to Justice It. I really appreciate you guys being here and listening another week. |
0:07.8 | Now, before we begin with our next guest, I want to warn you, before you listen, that some of the topics we may be discussing today could be triggering. |
0:15.8 | We talk about sexual abuse, assault, and drug use. It may be hard to hear for some, |
0:22.5 | but I promise you it's a powerful conversation. |
0:26.0 | Now without further ado, please welcome |
0:28.4 | my American beauty, Mina Savari. |
0:35.6 | Congratulations on this book. Thank you. First of our both, congratulations on having a baby. Thank you. |
0:38.3 | First of our most, congratulations on having a baby. |
0:40.3 | Thank you. |
0:41.3 | I made a human. |
0:42.3 | What has that been like for you? |
0:44.3 | Oh gosh, it's been everything. I'm still going through it. |
0:49.3 | I mean, he's only four months old. |
0:52.3 | Yeah. |
0:53.3 | It's so interesting because do you guys remember in the 90s in 2000, celebrities had to be like, |
0:58.0 | perfect. |
0:59.0 | Like you couldn't talk about mental illness, you couldn't talk about, you know, consent, you |
1:04.0 | couldn't talk about drug use, you know, and you always had to be on point because that's |
1:09.0 | what the people around you expect it. What's it feel like |
1:12.4 | that now you get to write, you know, the great piece and talk about all these things and help |
1:18.5 | other people cope? I mean, it's beautiful. It's incredibly liberating. I never expected any of that |
1:25.0 | to happen. If it does, you know, that's wonderful. I just felt so compelled to do it through experiencing all of that to happen if it does you know that's wonderful I just felt so |
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