Mom, We Need A Break
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This Mother’s Day we tackle the complicated relationship some women of color have with their mothers. This episode’s Wise One is Kulap Vilaysack who shares lessons from her experience in mending her relationship with her Lao refugee mother.
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| 0:00.0 | A few weeks ago, I got to watch the documentary origin story. |
| 0:04.0 | It's about the complicated relationship between a daughter and her mother, |
| 0:07.5 | and the secrets and lies that both bind and break that sacred relationship. |
| 0:13.0 | Right from the start, this dock hits us with a punch in the gut. |
| 0:17.0 | The daughter takes us to her childhood |
| 0:19.0 | and into a room where her mother is fighting |
| 0:22.0 | with the man she has always known is her father. |
| 0:25.2 | In a huff she starts venting. He is wrong. I am right. I send up for him. Dad and I get along better. He yells less. |
| 0:37.0 | Red-faced and piss off, she says. Why are you defending him? He's not your real dad. |
| 0:46.3 | Imagine finding out the man you thought was your father |
| 0:49.8 | was actually not your real dad, |
| 0:51.6 | and that it was your mother who told you this in a moment of spite. |
| 0:56.2 | What do you do when the person who made you also breaks you? you. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm T'Anya Moseley, and that's the |
| 1:05.0 | the |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Tanya Mosley and that's the topic we're taking on on this episode of Truth Be Told. |
| 1:27.0 | Dear Truth Be Told, dear Truth Be Told told I need your help The story we just shared with you belongs to Kula Valaisoc. This lady is a force. |
| 1:36.0 | She's a Lao American actor, writer, producer, and comedian based here in Los Angeles. |
| 1:42.0 | But for all of her accomplishments for so long, |
| 1:45.4 | Kulop was broken. |
| 1:46.7 | It made me stop trusting. |
| 1:49.9 | Made me stop trusting my parents. I just felt like everybody lied to me. And because I couldn't |
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