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sometimes a show reaches out and grabs you by the collar with its honesty. That's what happened.

After I watched the first episode of the new FX series Dying for Sex.

I knew immediately that I had to watch the rest of it alone.

I needed to sit with it, to cry without feeling self-conscious,

to laugh without an audience,

because the show is so intimate, so distinctly human.

Adapted from the Wondery podcast of the same name, and based on a true

story, dying for sex follows a woman named Molly, played by my guest today, Michelle Williams.

Molly leaves her marriage after a terminal breast cancer diagnosis and embarks on a sexual adventure.

But that doesn't even scratch the surface. Yes,

there is sex, sometimes kinky, a little awkward, often hilarious. But the show is really about

everything surrounding it. It's about what happens when the fear of dying outweighs the fear

of never having truly lived. It's about how trauma gets stored in the

female body. It's about reclaiming pleasure, even after we've been told that it doesn't belong to us.

In this scene that I'm about to play, Molly has just learned that her breast cancer has returned

and is now stage four. She begins meeting with a palliative care counselor

for support. I'm too young and it sucks, okay? I haven't done anything with my life. I actually

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