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Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Viola Davis’ Memoir Finding Me (with Mother-in-Law Vicki Lester)

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

Society & Culture, Arts, Books

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Chelsea is joined by her mother-in-law, Vicki Lester, who described this book "as eye-opening and life-changing as the bible!" Together, they recap and go deep into Viola’s incredible memoir, including her childhood poverty, the fighting spirit that has defined her life, and her bath-based marriage success story. This was previously a Patreon only episode — join the Patreon to be the first to get exclusive episodes like this one! Where to order Chelsea’s book: Bookshop.org Find other places to pre-order Follow Chelsea: Instagram @chelseadevantez Join the cookie community: Become a member of the Patreon *** Thank you to our sponsors: Tanteo Tequila - @tanteotequila Pattern Brands - @patternbrands Libro.fm - Click here to get 2 audiobooks for the price of 1 with your first month of membership using code TRASH.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, let me give you a few recaps, some highlights from the book tour, the podcast tour.

0:05.2

It was so wildly fun.

0:07.4

I'll start with New York City.

0:09.2

That is where the tour kicked off, where the book launch happened.

0:12.4

I did a show with John Stewart. It was

0:14.4

the stuff of dreams. I'm not gonna lie. There were I think 700 tickets sold and

0:20.1

it was so wonderful to be in New York City. I did a shoot for the book dress that I made of all my childhood journals.

0:25.9

I put that on my Instagram if you want to see it. And New York City was the only stop that Yasser and

0:31.2

needy quarantine dog could join me on because it's just too much

0:34.8

travel for our sweet little guys so we had to stay at like a super dog friendly

0:38.7

hotel and we found stay pineapple that is what the hotel is called. Stay Pineapple. It was so

0:46.2

cute and by far the most dog-friendly hotel I have ever stayed in. They had little signs that greeted what dogs were

0:54.0

staying at the hotel at that time and little pictures of them. They had dog treats,

0:58.5

dog bed, even just the signs that you put on your door letting you know that you don't need

1:03.7

cleaning service they would say like my owners out exploring give me some peace and

1:07.8

quiet like I'm snoozing so you just knew that your dog was safe there

1:11.9

also their beds they have this experience

1:14.8

called the Naked Experience, and I don't know how to explain it,

1:18.4

but they have these mattresses that are so plush

1:21.9

and wonderful, and then these two European comforters so each

1:25.8

person sleeping in the bed each gets their own comforter it was

1:29.4

incredible yester and I are looking up like how we could recreate it at home

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