Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 05.09.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Mother's Day, everybody. Happy Mother's Day, Carl, thank you,
and to all the mothers out there, that's happy Mother's Day.
We appreciate and love you.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
You know. Closing sad to say, there are people who
have mothers that they don't have a good relationship with,
and I want to employ you to change that. I
know a very famous guy, uh when I won my

(00:36):
first Image Award and I had thanked my mother, and
I think I said something to the fact that I
wish she was here. I remember saying something, and as
I walked off stage, this very famous guy said to me,
I wish I felt that way about my mama, but

(00:58):
I ain't spoke to her in ten years. And I
stopped and I said, bro, you need to fix that.
He said, no, you don't understand what happened. I said,
I may not, but you need to fix that. I
don't know what happens between a child and their mother

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where they don't speak. I've seen it happen up close before,
and it's alarming to me because there's a scripture that says,
honor thy mother and our father and that days on
this earth will be long. Also, I just don't understand

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how it gets to that point. But if it's gotten
to that point for whatever reason, let me say something
to you. You need to fix this because let me
explain something to you. Whatever mistake your mother has made,
whatever you think, you gotta remember, she's also not only
your mother. She is a human being, and human beings
make mistakes. They do it all the time. Nobody is

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exempt from that. But the fact that you've managed to
hold it for so long it will serve you no
good in the event of her demise. I know another
person who didn't have a relationship with their mother and
then their mother passed. And man, this boy right here,
he was crushed on so many levels. And I had

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told him, I said, man, you need to clean this
up for something happened. Nah. Man, it's cool the way
it is, But that will come a day when you
will lose this person who gave you life. And I'm
gonna tell you something. There will be no words for you,
that will be no comfort for you. There ain't nothing

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nobody can say to you. You're gonna wear this one
on me. You're gonna wear this one whether you want
to or not, because theres several of us on this
show have lost her and I'm telling you it is
a major, major loss. And I don't care if you've
been cool with her, hung out with her, love to

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cherish her, or you had disagreement with her. If I
was you, I would fix that because they are the
one person that brought you into this world and you
owe them for that. You just do. Now. I know
that's people that's gonna disagree with me, because social media
is just that way. You know. I get trolled all
the time of our comments I make. But I have

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the right to have my own opinion about something. What
I'm giving you is what I think and feel. What
I'm giving you is what I have seen happen repeatedly.
You have got to clean up this relationship with your
mom because she's vital, She's important. You know what. You're
probably old enough now to be able to say, you

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know what, I'm sorry, let's start over. You're probably old
enough now to say, you know what, I forgive you
for whatever happened. I don't want us to spend another
Mother's Day without communicating with another because one day we're
not gonna be here for each other. It's just an

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important relationship. And you got to remember something that I've
had to learn about forgiveness. Forgiveness is not for the
other person. It's for you, because every time you think
about her and what happened and what caused the rift,
or what you're blaming her for, it conjures up something

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in you. Bishop Jake said it best. He said, not
forgiving a person is like you drinking the poison, waiting
on them to die. That's really what it's like. I
had to forgive somebody this year who had done me
ohso wrong, and I had to forgive them this year.

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And you know what, I felt better after I did it.
And you know why, because now when I think of him,
it don't conjure up those thoughts because I've let it go. Naw,
You're not gonna get me again. I'm not gonna forget it,
but I have forgiven you for it. This is a

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time to make it right with somebody who gave you life.
This is the time to consider, just for a moment,
that this person that you are holding accountable for whatever happened,
is a member of the human race. And there is
none perfect, no, not one. Even my mother wasn't perfect,

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and I thought she was. I never saw my mother
do nothing wrong. I never heard my mama cuss nothing,
but I'm pretty sure my mother did something wrong. But
the thing I'm great about, the thing I'm grateful for,
is I honored her and my father until they left

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this world, and I honored them to this day. Because
you can't say nothing about Ilosville Harvey, not to me
and not to my brothers. You can't open your mouth
about it, and she been gone twenty eight years. Say
somebody and see what happened. In the words of all
the young people on site, on site, make it right

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with your mother. Happy Mother's Day. All the mother's out there,
and we all here owe all of you our life
and thank you for giving it to us. Those are
our closing remarks today. Hey, y'all talk to God Today'd
absolutely love to hear from you. Okay, you're prohibited.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
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