April 24, 2026 • 27 mins
BIN News Anchor Amber Payton sat down with comedian, actress, and talk show host Sherri Shepherd for a candid conversation that felt less like an interview and more like two friends catching up. Sherri opened up about her Make It Make Sense comedy tour stop at Norfolk’s Harrison Opera House, what it really means to be funny over 50, and why she starts every episode of Sherri with a live standup set.
Plus, she reflects on earning her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, her four NAACP Image Award nominations, and stepping into one of the most sacred roles of her career: playing 9/11 survivor Genelle Guzman in the upcoming Lifetime film Angel in the Rubble, executive produced alongside Robin Roberts. And if that wasn’t enough, she’s also a published children’s book author.
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Plus, she reflects on earning her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, her four NAACP Image Award nominations, and stepping into one of the most sacred roles of her career: playing 9/11 survivor Genelle Guzman in the upcoming Lifetime film Angel in the Rubble, executive produced alongside Robin Roberts. And if that wasn’t enough, she’s also a published children’s book author.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So let's talk about your show tonight. I know you're
at Harrison Opera House. Yes, So for anyone in the
seven five seven who's on the fence, I don't know
why they would be, but just in case they are,
give them your best pitch why they should come out tonight.
You know what, if you just want to laugh, you
trying to figure out, oh, should I go see Michael?
Should I go see Sherry? What should I go see? Michael?
Gonna be at the theater the whole weekend, Sherry leaving tonight.
(00:24):
But you know what, not only is that, it's just
like I just if you just want to laugh, you
just want to forget about things and just laugh, then
come and see me because I'm gonna make you feel good.
And I'm talking about everything and everything in between of laughter.
And you know what's funny. There's not too much funny
going on right now. Right we need a good laugh.
We absolutely like in this day and age, we have
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to be able to do a woof saw and we
have to be able to sit back and laugh in order.
When they say laughter is good medicine for the soul,
it truly is not a cliche. You have to have
laughter so you can go back and face the day,
so you can find some positive stuff, so you can,
you know, look at somebody else making fun of things
and laugh, you know, and I love to laugh. I'm
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a person I like to make you laugh, but I
love to laugh. And try this exercise, even if you
just sit by yourself, just start laughing, don't stop, keep laughing.
Do it for two minutes. You will actually trick your
body into laughing like it has hurt something funny and
it feels so good, like you holding as summit, like
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oh that felt good. It probably relieved constipation too. You
do it for about fue minutes, you can feel it good.
You all be all cleared out. That's what laughter does.
I can only do that in the privacy of my
home because if I'm just sitting there and I just
start busting out laughing and nobody has said anything, nothing
has nothing has actually happened, but I'm just laughing, trying
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to make myself laugh real quick. I can only do
that in the comfort of my home by myself, because
in public and do that well, you know, sometimes you
just got to try and take a risk and do
something so extremely you know, off course off center. I
am a news anchor, and I feel like I would
then be the news. I wouldn't be the story amby
(02:09):
Renee Amber Peyton has lost it and sometimes we gotta
feel like we didn't just lost it in order to
get back, to get back to one girl. Okay with that,
I'm fully okay with that. So let's pivot a little
bit to Angel in the robble. I know you're playing
the last survivor pulled from ground zero twenty seven hours
she was buried. Janelle Gusmand was the last rescue at
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the nine to eleven, you know, at when the South
and the North tower fell. Her leg was crushed, her
arm was crushed. She had cement, you know, surrounding her head,
and she was buried alive for twenty seven hours. And
it's just literally it was really her faith in God,
in her relationship that developed with God. Because her colleagues
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had passed away. The stairs opened up and swallowed her colleagues,
so everybody died that she worked with. And you know
how she found this relationship with God. Somebody put their
hand through her air hole and said, my name is Paul.
Help is coming. When she would pass out, he say,
help us coming. Wake up, wake up. So when they
rescued her, she was like, well, did you get Paul?
Did you get Paul? Nobody was very able to find Paul.
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And she wrote this book called Angel in the Rubble
because she felt God sent someone to help her and
renewed her faith. So she's like a changed person. They
did she thought they were going to amputate her legs,
and it's just a really extraordinary story and one you know,
to honor the survivors and the victims of nine to eleven.
I'm so honored to be able to bring this to life.
(03:35):
And I'm going as soon as I finish my make
it make sense to her, I'm headed to Cape Town,
South Africa to start filming because nothing says Manhattan like
Cape Town, South Africa. This is true, but ye'ah, I'll
be out there for about five weeks filming. So tell
me how do you even begin to step into something
that heavy and do it justice? Like you know what
(03:59):
I'm saying. You just you have to pull from different elements.
Like when I talk to Janelle, the first thing she
wanted to know was are you a woman of faith?
And I said yes, I am, and she was like,
because that's important to me because you understand where I'm
coming from in this journey of not having faith in
getting to it. So it's like you pull from those
things you pull from. You know, she had a daughter
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in Trinidad, so you know, if you're buried alive, the
first thing. If you have children, the first thing you're
thinking is my child. Yes, you know, so it's that
kind of thing. If you are buried alive. For me,
it'd be a hysteria moment. You have cinderblocks surrounding your head,
your leg is crushed you, you're on your side, there's
nowhere to move. So there's so many different feelings. You're
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doing research on it. You're trying to figure out what
would your faith journey look like, because it ain't like
you could be like, praise hallelujah, nobody can hear you scream?
You ever thought about what if you were trapped alive
and nobody could hear you scream? You know how to
annual pain. So it's all of these things that you're
adding into it. Plus you know in person accounts of
Janelle and what she went through. You just you have
to layer it. Wow, I love the first question, are
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you a woman of faith? Yeah, girl, am I a
woman of faith in this journey of life just being
a woman, being a Black woman, you gotta have some
kind of faith. You gotta have something bigger than yourself.
Because we are a resilient people. But I think that
people look at us as Black women and go, you
so resilient. You can take it all. You can take
the pain, you can take the pressure you could t get.
You know, just reading about a woman who just died
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in childbirth, you know it's like more women Black women
die in childbirth at these hospitals because they don't think
anything is wrong with us when we complain, because we've
gotten so good at masking pain. And I believe black
when we tire, and you have to have a faith
to hold on to to know it's going to get better.
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But also that faith to say I'm hurting, I need help.
I don't know if I can make it today. And
you know, my faith is very important because when I
go through things, I got to be able to call girls.
I got to be able to call and cry and go.
I got this boy who is autistic and I don't
know what I'm doing, and I'm about to I'm about
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to let go I'm about to be on the news.
I'm about to disboy right here and to have a
Kim Whitley or Nissy go drop drop the boy off
with me and take take a breathe of sherry. To
have your friends. You know, when I was going through
at the divorce, calling up a Tisha Campbell. These are
people I'm I'm naming that you know. Now I have
to say my girlfriend Vonda who work at CVS. But
you don't know her, but shout out to Vonda. And
(06:29):
I'm sorry. I told everybody where you work, but you know,
to have your your friends, uh, you know, be there
for you when they cancel my show. I was just
I was devastated. I called a Whoopie. I called her
Robin Roberts, I called up Oprah, I called up everybody, anybody.
I called them all because I was like, I don't
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know what I'm supposed to be doing. I called up
Tyler Perry. I was like, that was my label for
four seasons? What where am I? And they all talked
me off the roof in certain ways. But you need
you and all of that is faith. Yeah, you know, yeah,
And you know you mentioned how black women were so resilient. Yes,
people don't realize resilience. It's tiring sometimes. Absolutely, we're the
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whole phrase. You know, check on your strong friends, check
the ones that smile all the time. We're tired. We
are very tired. And so being a black woman is
a blessing. But it's also you know that resilience can
weigh on us. Sometimes it can't because we're so used
to doing everything and we're actually we're Mother Africa. We nurture,
you know, We're so strong, and we love hard and
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sometimes to our detriment because we sacrifice so much for everybody.
And like I said, we've gotten good at masking the pain.
We're taking care of new New we take care of Papa,
We're taking care of this one. We stop in our lives.
Were sacrificing and we do it and we we care
that Bible and we you know, and we have to stop.
And so this is why I love making people laugh.
(07:59):
This is why I love I'm on my show going, hey, family,
And if I could be silly and show you me
doing some dumb, some dumb ass exercise and make you
feel better, because you go, Sherry could be this silly
on a pogo stick, then I can go out and
be silly. I just want to inspire women to say,
you know, I see you. And in this season also
women are in my you know I turned fifty nine girl,
(08:20):
and yes, I know I look good? Yes I do
you do meling and being maling? Then then that's what
I love, yas to go around with the talent my
head like, whoope is trying to be Cindy Brady, No, ma'am.
I like being lakesha. I love my skin, I love
my nose. I love everything about myself and being a
black woman. And it's just like I want to inspire
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women in this season who are my age to go, No,
you have to be intentional about being seen and you
still got the best is yet to come. Don't give
up yet, don't you know? So what you know? Sometimes
people feel like not acknowledge, and I want to acknowledge
folks and say no, no, no, we here. Let me tell.
When I do my show, I always take a check
of who's there. Twenty year olds clap here, go to
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twenty year olds, and I go, that's the weakest, y'all.
Y'all got everything over it. By the time I get
to women fifty and sixty years old. If the freaks
of the weeks be standing up, knee's hurting, they throw
that cane. What I tell you the fifty to sixty
and up, they you think they was at the dog
Goe Club ready to live. And I tell the twenty
(09:26):
year olds, you see what you're supposed to sound like?
Come on now, twenty year olds, they slow clapping and
they got all the girl. They ain't got no energy.
They sitting here there, you know what, because they're beref
These young ones out here. They don't have an anchor.
They don't have an anchor to hold on too, which
is why we really have to help our young ones,
because they don't have the coping skills that we've had
(09:47):
to develop. And that's why I just I like people
to come to the comedy show because it's a lot
of comedy, it's a lot of tenderness, and it's a
lot of love. Oh. I love that this already feels
like it's like a good face, and I feel like
that's the vibe that you give off to people. It's
just you know where you're a girl's girl. When I
tell you, I'm scared of a woman who goes I
(10:09):
can't these women out hear they treachers. I don't be
friends with no women. That scares me, yes, because I
don't know how I would make it without women in
my life. I got women who boss eat niece Nash.
I got women who check me. I got women who
you know, hug me and let me cry, like I
don't know what I would do. And I love men,
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don't even get me wrong. I love y'all. I loved
y'all with everything I got. But them girlfriends they don't
ever leave, you know. And it's like, and I wouldn't
be where I am if it was not for my girlfriends.
They show up everything I have to do there there.
My last show on The Sherry Show is April thirtieth,
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and Nisi Nash will be right there with me, holding
my hand. And I know she's busy because she over
there with Kim Kardashian. Naw, she over there with Glynn clothes,
She over there with all these folks. You know. I said,
I don't know how you got tan for me, but
she said, friend, I'm gonna be there. I'm gonna be
there for you. She's flying in to be with me,
And that means the world to me to have my
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friend there holding my hand, and my other friend, Cynthia,
she's there, she's a vice president. She'd be speaking everywhere.
You know. Star Jones brought in thirty very powerful black
women the other day to come support me. I mean,
Susan Taylor from Essence, Vanessa, Belle Callaway, Sonny Austin was there.
I think all the aka's just came out. I'm not
even an aka. I don't even know how to spell AKA.
(11:32):
I don't know what, but they all came, thirty of
them just sit in me, lock Rock. You know who's
got a global foundation? This one who's the president of
the Stock Exchange. Black women who came to support me,
to show me, Sherry, we got you, we got your back.
Do you know? I could barely speak. I was what
there crying? I hey, family, black women, when I tell
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you we can change the world, Yes we can if
we just come together and start with the pettiness. It's like,
let's adore each other for the queens that we are. Yes,
you know, and I know that you mentioned Nissie quite
a few times. Oh I got it girl, thirty thirty
one years. I believe a friendship. Yeah, Kim Whodley is
thirty two. Oh yeah, she holds it over Nissi's head
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all the time. She got a year over Nisi. But
I know that Nissi and Tyler Perry, they showed up
for you when you got your Hollywood Walker Fame star. Well,
Nisi showed up. I didn't ask Nissi to speak for me.
She said she was going to. She said, I'm speaking
for you, and I said, well, you didn't ask me
to speak for you when you got your star. I
was there. She had subject the entertainer, she and Ryan
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Murphy speak for her. And I sat there and I
just I was there supporting my friend. And she said, no,
I'm going to speak, So she came through. Tyler. I
cried because he's so busy. You know, he writes twenty
nine shows in two days, so he was so busy.
But he flew his private plane in and he left
as soon as he as soon as we take our pictures.
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But the fact that he showed up for me meant
so much to me. The fact that you know my son,
that was my biggest joy. He is autistic, so he
doesn't like, he doesn't show his feelings. He doesn't like
a lot of crowds. He don't like a lot of noise.
He don't really like you touching them. But he came
through for me. He smiled no matter what. He shook
everybody's hand. He just like he knew what the assignment was.
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And I was just like, Okay, I think I'm a
good mother. I think I'm a good mother. But great.
I mean, all the comics were there, everybody. So was
it meant something to get that star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame? That was my journey of when I
was a struggling stand up. I got my star right
around the corner from my very first studio apartment. And
I used to walk back and forth on Sunset and Hollywood, struggling,
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no money, car repossessed on the bus, and I would
cry and look at the stars and go, man, Lord,
would it be possible for me to get one of
those things? Some dreams you don't tell people. I never
told anybody, but I would look at those stars and
now I say, oh my gosh, I hope somebody will
see my star right on our in Hollywood. And I
lived on Argyle in Franklin and say, wow, Sherry did it?
(14:05):
Then maybe I could do this too. And I'm right
across the street from n C Nash. We kiddy corner
from each other. Oh, y'all are just yes, so yes,
we're there. And so we made a pack to make
sure we clean each other star. And so whenever I
go by, I clean Easty Star. Got my own bottle
of windecks. It's all bleaned out. I cleaned Easty Star
and she going to me. I said, you clean my star,
sys And she said, Sherry, it was some men laying
on it. And I said, we'll leave it alone because
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they have all the men laying on top of me.
Leave him alone, girl, Let him lay on top of
me and feel good. Well, let's talk about another big
accomplishment that you had your NAACP nominations. Oh my gosh,
I have four nominations. Yes, I think we won for
the film Straw and I was up for Best Supporting
Actress Tiana and me, and I think Tianna got that one.
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I said, dang it. And I told her Tz, I said, girl,
you got the album. You got one battle after another?
Can you let me have one? Mama? But I'm glad.
It was just it was amazing. And my sister Jennifer
Hudson won for I don't know if she went talk show,
and then I had one for Best Talk Show Hosts.
But I knew I wasn't getting now because Don Lemmon
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went to prison. So I said, once I found out
Don Lemmon went to prison, I said, you know what,
he gonna get that one. Whenever you go to prison,
you gonna win something in my prison stent. I went
to jail like twenty years ago, so it don't count.
It don't count. But Don Lemon I even told him,
I said, you're gonna win. How do you do all
of this? Like you're just you? You have your talk show,
(15:33):
you have the comedy tour, you have, you're getting Hollywood
walking fame stars, you're winning in double ac or even
getting nominated for n Double ACP Awards. Yeah, how are
you managing? We just talked about black women being resilient? Yes,
how are you doing it? You have to first of all,
I love it, so it never seems like work. But
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because it doesn't seem like work, I work my I
overworked myself. But you have to be intentional about saying no.
And the Miss Oprah Winfrey told me that because my
first season of the Sherry show every weekend. I was
going out of town to, you know, say hi to
the affiliates, because the affiliates they play your show. And
if the affiliates say we're not going to play your show,
you are in a heck of a lot of trouble.
(16:15):
So I was going to meet the affiliates to show
them that, you know, you want to play me, maybe
if you want to play me twice on your network.
And I was losing time with Jeffrey and I called
her and I said, what am I supposed to do?
Because they expect me to do this? She said, share,
you have to train people how they're going to treat you.
And she said, because what Jeffrey's not going to want
to hear is I did all this for you. He
don't care. So you have to say no because once
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you say no, people will move in a chord. And
I was like, I could do that, Oprah, and she
was like, are you wasting my time? Are you wasting
my open on play? You wasted my time? And once
I started saying no, people move to to you know,
they it shifts so you can do what you want.
So you have you have to know your power. You
have to be intentional. I have to show down at
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a certain time. And I'm not twenty no more. You know,
in your twenties you can say until four in the morning,
go to club, come back home. No, at nine o'clock,
everything got to shut down. And I have to tell
people I'm shutting down. No, that doesn't work for me. No,
I can't do that. But shere it's a great opportunity.
Well I'm choosing not to. Yes. So you have to
be intentional about retaining your energy, retaining your power, because
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sometimes you can overwork yourself so much you don't have
the capacity to do those things that you're supposed to
do for other people. You don't have the capacity to
serve the way God actually wants you to serve, because
you've given so much and given and given, and you're
at zero. Your tank is empty. See I told I
was just telling someone this the other day. You're not
supposed to fill up your cup and then pour it
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into everyone else. You're supposed to keep your cup full
and then everyone else gets the overflow. That's right. That
you absolutely have to focus on ourselves first and just
know how to have that work life balance so that
you're not burnt out at the end of the day,
we can love what we do. You say the same
thing that I do. It never feels like work. Yeah,
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I do all things media, but I know when I'm
getting to my limit, and then I just say no. Yeah,
that's the thing you and you have to. And I
tell young women stand in front of the mirror and
practice saying no. No. That doesn't work for me. No,
I can't do that right now. You can always change
a no into a yes. It's harder to change a
yes into a no. And I just say, practice saying
(18:29):
no because it's a muscle. And practice if you got
to say no, I'm sorry, okay, but then practice just
say no with the period at the end. No. It
doesn't work for me. People looks at you funny, like
I can't believe you said that. Then they go, okay,
you said that. Now I gotta figure out a way. Okay,
Now I gotta figure out a way to pay my
own rent. Now I gotta figure out a way to,
you know, pay my own car payment because she ain't
coming through. It's no. And know that no is a
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full sentence. It's a full sentence. My auntie told me
one time. Girl, I say Auntie Tiny, I need ten
thousand dollars because I needed a car, and she said,
I'm might. I'm not giving you no ten thousand. I said, Auntie,
I know you got it. She said, I got it.
I'm not giving it to you. I'll never forget that
and didn't give me that money. I was mad, But
you know what, I went and worked a second job
and I got that money and I bought my own car.
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There you go. You know, people will get it done.
My last question to you is make it make sense? Yes,
what is going on that it's something that's not making sense,
So we name the comedy tour. Make it make sense
because it used to be the same used to be.
It is what it is, but we don't know. We
can't make sense that it is what it is because
what is what it is? It's crazy. We're in a
(19:34):
crazy world and I don't know, Like in the season
of my life just being single and dating all of
these rules. There are more relationship people on TikTok and Instagram,
and they're all my pseudotherapists, especially on TikTok because they're
fifteen sixteen years old and they're free. So I follow
them and they say things like if a man contacts you,
(19:57):
you know you gotta wait twenty four to thirty six
before you answer him back because you don't want to
look thirsty. I'm gonna give you two reasons now, and
I'm gonna tell you why that's not gonna work, because
in this season, I'm not in my memory. I'm not
gonna remember who texted me or try to talk to
me thirty six hours ago. I will forget, so I
need to get back in touch. Secondly, it's gonna make
me look thirsty. I am thirsty. Do you know how
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long it has been since I've had a tall drop
of six foot four water? Maybe a little hot chocolate,
maybe a little vanilla smoothie, maybe a little green macha. Yes,
I'm thirsty, and I want to be honest about it.
So it's like all of these things I gotta play with.
If I want the soft life, I gotta learn how
to do. I don't even know what soft life means.
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I'm so used to working. If you see my feet
right now, you know what you're gonna say about my feet.
That's a hard working woman. That's what you're gonna say
about my feet. Sherry work hard, and I can feel
how hard she work. So it's like all of this stuff.
I gotta tell men, don't text me in the morning
because I don't know. I'm not well in the morning.
(20:58):
Somebody texted me w y D and I called him
back and I said, you don't know me well enough
to tell me to watch my draws. You don't know
me like that. Oh I did not know that. That
meant what you're doing? Well, you know I do about
the what you're doing now? The w y M? Well,
what does that mean? What? What? What? Who your ma'am? What? What?
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What were your time? What? What? I ca w what that?
What that means? It's too many anagrams at acronyms, a symonym, summon.
You know what I got to say to that? What
make it makes sense? Make it make sense? Just call
me on the phone. And this is another thing. Ladies,
stop on on these dates and you let this man
unload on you. You let this man unload on you while
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you walk in head and told you what his mama
didn't do, what his grandmama didn't do, why he in
therapy when he was married, what his wife did. You
ain't even had a ribby steak. You ain't he ain't
took you out to eat and you This is another
thing we try to show people that we you know,
we're listeners and if you just you know, if you
just you can see that I'm in your corner. And
then we do all of that, and then they go
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and get married to somebody else dating dumb boot camp
with us, and then they go get married to somebody else.
Stop it, my girlfriend calls the boot boot camp train
and be stop being that. I'm tired to be above
the builder. We're tired of being Bob the building. We're
not trying to build nobody. Choose that person and look
at and and and we got to get our nervous
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system regulated. That's the thing I'm tired of being in
these relationships. It's like it's up and down. Oh my god,
butterflies scare me, emotional whiplash. Don't you are not Butterflies
are not good. I've always said this, that is anxiety
that is making me feel anxiety. Gods, And that's the
way you got to look at it, because before it's like,
oh my gosh, just butterflies. Then you like, let me
(22:45):
tell us, because there was a I don't want to
I don't want to say his name. I'm trying to
figure out how to do stand up about him because
he's very well known. And he was trying to talk
to me, and he he asked me I met him
at the Apollo and he says, I want to ask
you four questions and and he said, are you married?
I said no, I'm breathing hard. I'm breathing hard because
he's very tall and built. He said, are you in love, queen?
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I said no, and he said perfect you a perfect queen.
When I tell you the butterflies, I was like, oh
my god. And he would call me and he'd be
doing wordplay, because that's he's a wordsmith, wordplay. I don't
know what he said. He said something like, I want
to build with you. What the hell does that mean?
You want to open up a franchise. I'm playing fitness.
(23:28):
What do you mean? And I can't breathe. And then
at the end of the conversation, after hour, he said,
let's plant and see what blooms. Red flag, Red flag,
red flag. Go. But this way you gotta have your girlfriends.
Because he would text me at nighttime the red flag.
When I always going to text at night, he texted
he said, Queen. I'm in the studio right now, but
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as soon as I get out, I'm gonna call you.
So I called Ken Whitley. I said, look, girl, Queen,
I ain't never been called queen. She said, girl. He
didn't test the six other women and said the same
thing because he aint got say nobody name. He's just
waiting for the first one. I called it. When I
tell that, girl, hurt my feelings. Kim, we almost ended
our friendship over that. She said, oh, you know what,
I never thought about that when people call you that,
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you know, And she said, Sherry, I'm telling you that
because I got a lot of testosterone. She said, I
got more testoster throwne and I got estrogen, And that
is true. Kim is a dude. And when she told me,
I said, wow, Kim, because he never says erry. He
always says queen. And Kat Williams says the joke. He said,
I call you all bees because I don't know your
name individually, you know, And I said, oh my gosh.
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And the last time he called girl, that's when I
had to That's when I blocked him, because you got
to you gotta sit in the practical and really look
at what's going on. A man will tell you how
it feels. It was about ten o'clock at night. They
had just canceled my show. I had COVID and when
he called, he was so busy telling me the blessings
that was happening to him. He couldn't even tell I
had coughed and pete on myself six times on that
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daygone phone call because I got called, and not once
did he say how you doing? What's going on with you?
And then I realized, you know what, not once it
even asks. He don't even know I got a child.
I know about all nineteen of his kids. Oh, he
didn't even ask when I got a child. And that's
why I was just like, you know what, sherry block
block And then when it starts to go, and you know,
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I really want to see you because I've been thinking
about you, I mean, traveling all over the world because
God been so good. It's eleven o'clock. I got COVID.
What ladies, when they show us who they are, hit
that block button. It's real quick, that's it. Just block
him real quick, and don't don't I'm block ever. You
know when prayer our prayer girl that's so hard. Sometimes
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what I pray it and God come through. I'll go God,
if this is not a line with your will for
my life, shut that door so tight that I can't
even open it with a bobby pin. Make that sucker
explode and give me the strength to keep walking. And
sometimes I have a tantrum. I'll be like I'll be
like a three year old. I don't want to say
that prayer yet. Lord, I need to have no fun
fur You're done, he answered, before you even finished sing
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in Jesus name Amen that doord and closed so fast
you like Dad. I ain't even took a cute picture
to say. The ladies, make it make sense, Make it
make sense. Sherry is at Harrison Opera House tonight. Thank
you so much for coming girl. They just got a
little taste. We love you too. Thank you again, thank
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you for the support. And can I say one more thing.
My show is going off the air. I'll be down
on April thirtieth, but there are two other shows with
black women, Jennifer Hudson and Tammern Hall. Please support these
women because I don't know when you're gonna see in
this administration again. Three black women who have their own
talk show. There will be in another time, but I
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don't know when you're gonna see it soon, so I'm
off the air. We do three different things, yes, but
please support these sisters and their endeavor to keep their
show on the air. Show show up black women the
way you showed up for me. I'm number one and
syndication with Black Back Women twenty five to fifty four.
I am number one and I'm number two in syndication
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behind Kelly and Mark. So show up for these ladies
because they're trying to use their platform for us too.
And there you have it. Well, Sherry, thank you for
stopping in, and thank you for listening. I'm Amber Payton
on the Black Information Network.
So let's talk about your show tonight. I know you're
at Harrison Opera House. Yes, So for anyone in the
seven five seven who's on the fence, I don't know
why they would be, but just in case they are,
give them your best pitch why they should come out tonight.
You know what, if you just want to laugh, you
trying to figure out, oh, should I go see Michael?
Should I go see Sherry? What should I go see? Michael?
Gonna be at the theater the whole weekend, Sherry leaving tonight.
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But you know what, not only is that, it's just
like I just if you just want to laugh, you
just want to forget about things and just laugh, then
come and see me because I'm gonna make you feel good.
And I'm talking about everything and everything in between of laughter.
And you know what's funny. There's not too much funny
going on right now. Right we need a good laugh.
We absolutely like in this day and age, we have
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to be able to do a woof saw and we
have to be able to sit back and laugh in order.
When they say laughter is good medicine for the soul,
it truly is not a cliche. You have to have
laughter so you can go back and face the day,
so you can find some positive stuff, so you can,
you know, look at somebody else making fun of things
and laugh, you know, and I love to laugh. I'm
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a person I like to make you laugh, but I
love to laugh. And try this exercise, even if you
just sit by yourself, just start laughing, don't stop, keep laughing.
Do it for two minutes. You will actually trick your
body into laughing like it has hurt something funny and
it feels so good, like you holding as summit, like
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oh that felt good. It probably relieved constipation too. You
do it for about fue minutes, you can feel it good.
You all be all cleared out. That's what laughter does.
I can only do that in the privacy of my
home because if I'm just sitting there and I just
start busting out laughing and nobody has said anything, nothing
has nothing has actually happened, but I'm just laughing, trying
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to make myself laugh real quick. I can only do
that in the comfort of my home by myself, because
in public and do that well, you know, sometimes you
just got to try and take a risk and do
something so extremely you know, off course off center. I
am a news anchor, and I feel like I would
then be the news. I wouldn't be the story amby
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Renee Amber Peyton has lost it and sometimes we gotta
feel like we didn't just lost it in order to
get back, to get back to one girl. Okay with that,
I'm fully okay with that. So let's pivot a little
bit to Angel in the robble. I know you're playing
the last survivor pulled from ground zero twenty seven hours
she was buried. Janelle Gusmand was the last rescue at
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the nine to eleven, you know, at when the South
and the North tower fell. Her leg was crushed, her
arm was crushed. She had cement, you know, surrounding her head,
and she was buried alive for twenty seven hours. And
it's just literally it was really her faith in God,
in her relationship that developed with God. Because her colleagues
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had passed away. The stairs opened up and swallowed her colleagues,
so everybody died that she worked with. And you know
how she found this relationship with God. Somebody put their
hand through her air hole and said, my name is Paul.
Help is coming. When she would pass out, he say,
help us coming. Wake up, wake up. So when they
rescued her, she was like, well, did you get Paul?
Did you get Paul? Nobody was very able to find Paul.
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And she wrote this book called Angel in the Rubble
because she felt God sent someone to help her and
renewed her faith. So she's like a changed person. They
did she thought they were going to amputate her legs,
and it's just a really extraordinary story and one you know,
to honor the survivors and the victims of nine to eleven.
I'm so honored to be able to bring this to life.
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And I'm going as soon as I finish my make
it make sense to her, I'm headed to Cape Town,
South Africa to start filming because nothing says Manhattan like
Cape Town, South Africa. This is true, but ye'ah, I'll
be out there for about five weeks filming. So tell
me how do you even begin to step into something
that heavy and do it justice? Like you know what
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I'm saying. You just you have to pull from different elements.
Like when I talk to Janelle, the first thing she
wanted to know was are you a woman of faith?
And I said yes, I am, and she was like,
because that's important to me because you understand where I'm
coming from in this journey of not having faith in
getting to it. So it's like you pull from those
things you pull from. You know, she had a daughter
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in Trinidad, so you know, if you're buried alive, the
first thing. If you have children, the first thing you're
thinking is my child. Yes, you know, so it's that
kind of thing. If you are buried alive. For me,
it'd be a hysteria moment. You have cinderblocks surrounding your head,
your leg is crushed you, you're on your side, there's
nowhere to move. So there's so many different feelings. You're
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doing research on it. You're trying to figure out what
would your faith journey look like, because it ain't like
you could be like, praise hallelujah, nobody can hear you scream?
You ever thought about what if you were trapped alive
and nobody could hear you scream? You know how to
annual pain. So it's all of these things that you're
adding into it. Plus you know in person accounts of
Janelle and what she went through. You just you have
to layer it. Wow, I love the first question, are
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you a woman of faith? Yeah, girl, am I a
woman of faith in this journey of life just being
a woman, being a Black woman, you gotta have some
kind of faith. You gotta have something bigger than yourself.
Because we are a resilient people. But I think that
people look at us as Black women and go, you
so resilient. You can take it all. You can take
the pain, you can take the pressure you could t get.
You know, just reading about a woman who just died
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in childbirth, you know it's like more women Black women
die in childbirth at these hospitals because they don't think
anything is wrong with us when we complain, because we've
gotten so good at masking pain. And I believe black
when we tire, and you have to have a faith
to hold on to to know it's going to get better.
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But also that faith to say I'm hurting, I need help.
I don't know if I can make it today. And
you know, my faith is very important because when I
go through things, I got to be able to call girls.
I got to be able to call and cry and go.
I got this boy who is autistic and I don't
know what I'm doing, and I'm about to I'm about
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to let go I'm about to be on the news.
I'm about to disboy right here and to have a
Kim Whitley or Nissy go drop drop the boy off
with me and take take a breathe of sherry. To
have your friends. You know, when I was going through
at the divorce, calling up a Tisha Campbell. These are
people I'm I'm naming that you know. Now I have
to say my girlfriend Vonda who work at CVS. But
you don't know her, but shout out to Vonda. And
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I'm sorry. I told everybody where you work, but you know,
to have your your friends, uh, you know, be there
for you when they cancel my show. I was just
I was devastated. I called a Whoopie. I called her
Robin Roberts, I called up Oprah, I called up everybody, anybody.
I called them all because I was like, I don't
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know what I'm supposed to be doing. I called up
Tyler Perry. I was like, that was my label for
four seasons? What where am I? And they all talked
me off the roof in certain ways. But you need
you and all of that is faith. Yeah, you know, yeah,
And you know you mentioned how black women were so resilient. Yes,
people don't realize resilience. It's tiring sometimes. Absolutely, we're the
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whole phrase. You know, check on your strong friends, check
the ones that smile all the time. We're tired. We
are very tired. And so being a black woman is
a blessing. But it's also you know that resilience can
weigh on us. Sometimes it can't because we're so used
to doing everything and we're actually we're Mother Africa. We nurture,
you know, We're so strong, and we love hard and
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sometimes to our detriment because we sacrifice so much for everybody.
And like I said, we've gotten good at masking the pain.
We're taking care of new New we take care of Papa,
We're taking care of this one. We stop in our lives.
Were sacrificing and we do it and we we care
that Bible and we you know, and we have to stop.
And so this is why I love making people laugh.
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This is why I love I'm on my show going, hey, family,
And if I could be silly and show you me
doing some dumb, some dumb ass exercise and make you
feel better, because you go, Sherry could be this silly
on a pogo stick, then I can go out and
be silly. I just want to inspire women to say,
you know, I see you. And in this season also
women are in my you know I turned fifty nine girl,
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and yes, I know I look good? Yes I do
you do meling and being maling? Then then that's what
I love, yas to go around with the talent my
head like, whoope is trying to be Cindy Brady, No, ma'am.
I like being lakesha. I love my skin, I love
my nose. I love everything about myself and being a
black woman. And it's just like I want to inspire
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women in this season who are my age to go, No,
you have to be intentional about being seen and you
still got the best is yet to come. Don't give
up yet, don't you know? So what you know? Sometimes
people feel like not acknowledge, and I want to acknowledge
folks and say no, no, no, we here. Let me tell.
When I do my show, I always take a check
of who's there. Twenty year olds clap here, go to
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twenty year olds, and I go, that's the weakest, y'all.
Y'all got everything over it. By the time I get
to women fifty and sixty years old. If the freaks
of the weeks be standing up, knee's hurting, they throw
that cane. What I tell you the fifty to sixty
and up, they you think they was at the dog
Goe Club ready to live. And I tell the twenty
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year olds, you see what you're supposed to sound like?
Come on now, twenty year olds, they slow clapping and
they got all the girl. They ain't got no energy.
They sitting here there, you know what, because they're beref
These young ones out here. They don't have an anchor.
They don't have an anchor to hold on too, which
is why we really have to help our young ones,
because they don't have the coping skills that we've had
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to develop. And that's why I just I like people
to come to the comedy show because it's a lot
of comedy, it's a lot of tenderness, and it's a
lot of love. Oh. I love that this already feels
like it's like a good face, and I feel like
that's the vibe that you give off to people. It's
just you know where you're a girl's girl. When I
tell you, I'm scared of a woman who goes I
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can't these women out hear they treachers. I don't be
friends with no women. That scares me, yes, because I
don't know how I would make it without women in
my life. I got women who boss eat niece Nash.
I got women who check me. I got women who
you know, hug me and let me cry, like I
don't know what I would do. And I love men,
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don't even get me wrong. I love y'all. I loved
y'all with everything I got. But them girlfriends they don't
ever leave, you know. And it's like, and I wouldn't
be where I am if it was not for my girlfriends.
They show up everything I have to do there there.
My last show on The Sherry Show is April thirtieth,
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and Nisi Nash will be right there with me, holding
my hand. And I know she's busy because she over
there with Kim Kardashian. Naw, she over there with Glynn clothes,
She over there with all these folks. You know. I said,
I don't know how you got tan for me, but
she said, friend, I'm gonna be there. I'm gonna be
there for you. She's flying in to be with me,
And that means the world to me to have my
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friend there holding my hand, and my other friend, Cynthia,
she's there, she's a vice president. She'd be speaking everywhere.
You know. Star Jones brought in thirty very powerful black
women the other day to come support me. I mean,
Susan Taylor from Essence, Vanessa, Belle Callaway, Sonny Austin was there.
I think all the aka's just came out. I'm not
even an aka. I don't even know how to spell AKA.
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I don't know what, but they all came, thirty of
them just sit in me, lock Rock. You know who's
got a global foundation? This one who's the president of
the Stock Exchange. Black women who came to support me,
to show me, Sherry, we got you, we got your back.
Do you know? I could barely speak. I was what
there crying? I hey, family, black women, when I tell
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you we can change the world, Yes we can if
we just come together and start with the pettiness. It's like,
let's adore each other for the queens that we are. Yes,
you know, and I know that you mentioned Nissie quite
a few times. Oh I got it girl, thirty thirty
one years. I believe a friendship. Yeah, Kim Whodley is
thirty two. Oh yeah, she holds it over Nissi's head
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all the time. She got a year over Nisi. But
I know that Nissi and Tyler Perry, they showed up
for you when you got your Hollywood Walker Fame star. Well,
Nisi showed up. I didn't ask Nissi to speak for me.
She said she was going to. She said, I'm speaking
for you, and I said, well, you didn't ask me
to speak for you when you got your star. I
was there. She had subject the entertainer, she and Ryan
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Murphy speak for her. And I sat there and I
just I was there supporting my friend. And she said, no,
I'm going to speak, So she came through. Tyler. I
cried because he's so busy. You know, he writes twenty
nine shows in two days, so he was so busy.
But he flew his private plane in and he left
as soon as he as soon as we take our pictures.
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But the fact that he showed up for me meant
so much to me. The fact that you know my son,
that was my biggest joy. He is autistic, so he
doesn't like, he doesn't show his feelings. He doesn't like
a lot of crowds. He don't like a lot of noise.
He don't really like you touching them. But he came
through for me. He smiled no matter what. He shook
everybody's hand. He just like he knew what the assignment was.
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And I was just like, Okay, I think I'm a
good mother. I think I'm a good mother. But great.
I mean, all the comics were there, everybody. So was
it meant something to get that star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame? That was my journey of when I
was a struggling stand up. I got my star right
around the corner from my very first studio apartment. And
I used to walk back and forth on Sunset and Hollywood, struggling,
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no money, car repossessed on the bus, and I would
cry and look at the stars and go, man, Lord,
would it be possible for me to get one of
those things? Some dreams you don't tell people. I never
told anybody, but I would look at those stars and
now I say, oh my gosh, I hope somebody will
see my star right on our in Hollywood. And I
lived on Argyle in Franklin and say, wow, Sherry did it?
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Then maybe I could do this too. And I'm right
across the street from n C Nash. We kiddy corner
from each other. Oh, y'all are just yes, so yes,
we're there. And so we made a pack to make
sure we clean each other star. And so whenever I
go by, I clean Easty Star. Got my own bottle
of windecks. It's all bleaned out. I cleaned Easty Star
and she going to me. I said, you clean my star,
sys And she said, Sherry, it was some men laying
on it. And I said, we'll leave it alone because
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they have all the men laying on top of me.
Leave him alone, girl, Let him lay on top of
me and feel good. Well, let's talk about another big
accomplishment that you had your NAACP nominations. Oh my gosh,
I have four nominations. Yes, I think we won for
the film Straw and I was up for Best Supporting
Actress Tiana and me, and I think Tianna got that one.
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I said, dang it. And I told her Tz, I said, girl,
you got the album. You got one battle after another?
Can you let me have one? Mama? But I'm glad.
It was just it was amazing. And my sister Jennifer
Hudson won for I don't know if she went talk show,
and then I had one for Best Talk Show Hosts.
But I knew I wasn't getting now because Don Lemmon
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went to prison. So I said, once I found out
Don Lemmon went to prison, I said, you know what,
he gonna get that one. Whenever you go to prison,
you gonna win something in my prison stent. I went
to jail like twenty years ago, so it don't count.
It don't count. But Don Lemon I even told him,
I said, you're gonna win. How do you do all
of this? Like you're just you? You have your talk show,
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you have the comedy tour, you have, you're getting Hollywood
walking fame stars, you're winning in double ac or even
getting nominated for n Double ACP Awards. Yeah, how are
you managing? We just talked about black women being resilient? Yes,
how are you doing it? You have to first of all,
I love it, so it never seems like work. But
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because it doesn't seem like work, I work my I
overworked myself. But you have to be intentional about saying no.
And the Miss Oprah Winfrey told me that because my
first season of the Sherry show every weekend. I was
going out of town to, you know, say hi to
the affiliates, because the affiliates they play your show. And
if the affiliates say we're not going to play your show,
you are in a heck of a lot of trouble.
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So I was going to meet the affiliates to show
them that, you know, you want to play me, maybe
if you want to play me twice on your network.
And I was losing time with Jeffrey and I called
her and I said, what am I supposed to do?
Because they expect me to do this? She said, share,
you have to train people how they're going to treat you.
And she said, because what Jeffrey's not going to want
to hear is I did all this for you. He
don't care. So you have to say no because once
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you say no, people will move in a chord. And
I was like, I could do that, Oprah, and she
was like, are you wasting my time? Are you wasting
my open on play? You wasted my time? And once
I started saying no, people move to to you know,
they it shifts so you can do what you want.
So you have you have to know your power. You
have to be intentional. I have to show down at
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a certain time. And I'm not twenty no more. You know,
in your twenties you can say until four in the morning,
go to club, come back home. No, at nine o'clock,
everything got to shut down. And I have to tell
people I'm shutting down. No, that doesn't work for me. No,
I can't do that. But shere it's a great opportunity.
Well I'm choosing not to. Yes. So you have to
be intentional about retaining your energy, retaining your power, because
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sometimes you can overwork yourself so much you don't have
the capacity to do those things that you're supposed to
do for other people. You don't have the capacity to
serve the way God actually wants you to serve, because
you've given so much and given and given, and you're
at zero. Your tank is empty. See I told I
was just telling someone this the other day. You're not
supposed to fill up your cup and then pour it
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into everyone else. You're supposed to keep your cup full
and then everyone else gets the overflow. That's right. That
you absolutely have to focus on ourselves first and just
know how to have that work life balance so that
you're not burnt out at the end of the day,
we can love what we do. You say the same
thing that I do. It never feels like work. Yeah,
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I do all things media, but I know when I'm
getting to my limit, and then I just say no. Yeah,
that's the thing you and you have to. And I
tell young women stand in front of the mirror and
practice saying no. No. That doesn't work for me. No,
I can't do that right now. You can always change
a no into a yes. It's harder to change a
yes into a no. And I just say, practice saying
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no because it's a muscle. And practice if you got
to say no, I'm sorry, okay, but then practice just
say no with the period at the end. No. It
doesn't work for me. People looks at you funny, like
I can't believe you said that. Then they go, okay,
you said that. Now I gotta figure out a way. Okay,
Now I gotta figure out a way to pay my
own rent. Now I gotta figure out a way to,
you know, pay my own car payment because she ain't
coming through. It's no. And know that no is a
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full sentence. It's a full sentence. My auntie told me
one time. Girl, I say Auntie Tiny, I need ten
thousand dollars because I needed a car, and she said,
I'm might. I'm not giving you no ten thousand. I said, Auntie,
I know you got it. She said, I got it.
I'm not giving it to you. I'll never forget that
and didn't give me that money. I was mad, But
you know what, I went and worked a second job
and I got that money and I bought my own car.
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There you go. You know, people will get it done.
My last question to you is make it make sense? Yes,
what is going on that it's something that's not making sense,
So we name the comedy tour. Make it make sense
because it used to be the same used to be.
It is what it is, but we don't know. We
can't make sense that it is what it is because
what is what it is? It's crazy. We're in a
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crazy world and I don't know, Like in the season
of my life just being single and dating all of
these rules. There are more relationship people on TikTok and Instagram,
and they're all my pseudotherapists, especially on TikTok because they're
fifteen sixteen years old and they're free. So I follow
them and they say things like if a man contacts you,
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you know you gotta wait twenty four to thirty six
before you answer him back because you don't want to
look thirsty. I'm gonna give you two reasons now, and
I'm gonna tell you why that's not gonna work, because
in this season, I'm not in my memory. I'm not
gonna remember who texted me or try to talk to
me thirty six hours ago. I will forget, so I
need to get back in touch. Secondly, it's gonna make
me look thirsty. I am thirsty. Do you know how
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long it has been since I've had a tall drop
of six foot four water? Maybe a little hot chocolate,
maybe a little vanilla smoothie, maybe a little green macha. Yes,
I'm thirsty, and I want to be honest about it.
So it's like all of these things I gotta play with.
If I want the soft life, I gotta learn how
to do. I don't even know what soft life means.
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I'm so used to working. If you see my feet
right now, you know what you're gonna say about my feet.
That's a hard working woman. That's what you're gonna say
about my feet. Sherry work hard, and I can feel
how hard she work. So it's like all of this stuff.
I gotta tell men, don't text me in the morning
because I don't know. I'm not well in the morning.
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Somebody texted me w y D and I called him
back and I said, you don't know me well enough
to tell me to watch my draws. You don't know
me like that. Oh I did not know that. That
meant what you're doing? Well, you know I do about
the what you're doing now? The w y M? Well,
what does that mean? What? What? What? Who your ma'am? What? What?
(21:19):
What were your time? What? What? I ca w what that?
What that means? It's too many anagrams at acronyms, a symonym, summon.
You know what I got to say to that? What
make it makes sense? Make it make sense? Just call
me on the phone. And this is another thing. Ladies,
stop on on these dates and you let this man
unload on you. You let this man unload on you while
(21:40):
you walk in head and told you what his mama
didn't do, what his grandmama didn't do, why he in
therapy when he was married, what his wife did. You
ain't even had a ribby steak. You ain't he ain't
took you out to eat and you This is another
thing we try to show people that we you know,
we're listeners and if you just you know, if you
just you can see that I'm in your corner. And
then we do all of that, and then they go
(22:00):
and get married to somebody else dating dumb boot camp
with us, and then they go get married to somebody else.
Stop it, my girlfriend calls the boot boot camp train
and be stop being that. I'm tired to be above
the builder. We're tired of being Bob the building. We're
not trying to build nobody. Choose that person and look
at and and and we got to get our nervous
(22:22):
system regulated. That's the thing I'm tired of being in
these relationships. It's like it's up and down. Oh my god,
butterflies scare me, emotional whiplash. Don't you are not Butterflies
are not good. I've always said this, that is anxiety
that is making me feel anxiety. Gods, And that's the
way you got to look at it, because before it's like,
oh my gosh, just butterflies. Then you like, let me
(22:45):
tell us, because there was a I don't want to
I don't want to say his name. I'm trying to
figure out how to do stand up about him because
he's very well known. And he was trying to talk
to me, and he he asked me I met him
at the Apollo and he says, I want to ask
you four questions and and he said, are you married?
I said no, I'm breathing hard. I'm breathing hard because
he's very tall and built. He said, are you in love, queen?
(23:06):
I said no, and he said perfect you a perfect queen.
When I tell you the butterflies, I was like, oh
my god. And he would call me and he'd be
doing wordplay, because that's he's a wordsmith, wordplay. I don't
know what he said. He said something like, I want
to build with you. What the hell does that mean?
You want to open up a franchise. I'm playing fitness.
(23:28):
What do you mean? And I can't breathe. And then
at the end of the conversation, after hour, he said,
let's plant and see what blooms. Red flag, Red flag,
red flag. Go. But this way you gotta have your girlfriends.
Because he would text me at nighttime the red flag.
When I always going to text at night, he texted
he said, Queen. I'm in the studio right now, but
(23:50):
as soon as I get out, I'm gonna call you.
So I called Ken Whitley. I said, look, girl, Queen,
I ain't never been called queen. She said, girl. He
didn't test the six other women and said the same
thing because he aint got say nobody name. He's just
waiting for the first one. I called it. When I
tell that, girl, hurt my feelings. Kim, we almost ended
our friendship over that. She said, oh, you know what,
I never thought about that when people call you that,
(24:13):
you know, And she said, Sherry, I'm telling you that
because I got a lot of testosterone. She said, I
got more testoster throwne and I got estrogen, And that
is true. Kim is a dude. And when she told me,
I said, wow, Kim, because he never says erry. He
always says queen. And Kat Williams says the joke. He said,
I call you all bees because I don't know your
name individually, you know, And I said, oh my gosh.
(24:36):
And the last time he called girl, that's when I
had to That's when I blocked him, because you got
to you gotta sit in the practical and really look
at what's going on. A man will tell you how
it feels. It was about ten o'clock at night. They
had just canceled my show. I had COVID and when
he called, he was so busy telling me the blessings
that was happening to him. He couldn't even tell I
had coughed and pete on myself six times on that
(24:58):
daygone phone call because I got called, and not once
did he say how you doing? What's going on with you?
And then I realized, you know what, not once it
even asks. He don't even know I got a child.
I know about all nineteen of his kids. Oh, he
didn't even ask when I got a child. And that's
why I was just like, you know what, sherry block
block And then when it starts to go, and you know,
(25:18):
I really want to see you because I've been thinking
about you, I mean, traveling all over the world because
God been so good. It's eleven o'clock. I got COVID.
What ladies, when they show us who they are, hit
that block button. It's real quick, that's it. Just block
him real quick, and don't don't I'm block ever. You
know when prayer our prayer girl that's so hard. Sometimes
(25:39):
what I pray it and God come through. I'll go God,
if this is not a line with your will for
my life, shut that door so tight that I can't
even open it with a bobby pin. Make that sucker
explode and give me the strength to keep walking. And
sometimes I have a tantrum. I'll be like I'll be
like a three year old. I don't want to say
that prayer yet. Lord, I need to have no fun
fur You're done, he answered, before you even finished sing
(26:01):
in Jesus name Amen that doord and closed so fast
you like Dad. I ain't even took a cute picture
to say. The ladies, make it make sense, Make it
make sense. Sherry is at Harrison Opera House tonight. Thank
you so much for coming girl. They just got a
little taste. We love you too. Thank you again, thank
(26:22):
you for the support. And can I say one more thing.
My show is going off the air. I'll be down
on April thirtieth, but there are two other shows with
black women, Jennifer Hudson and Tammern Hall. Please support these
women because I don't know when you're gonna see in
this administration again. Three black women who have their own
talk show. There will be in another time, but I
(26:44):
don't know when you're gonna see it soon, so I'm
off the air. We do three different things, yes, but
please support these sisters and their endeavor to keep their
show on the air. Show show up black women the
way you showed up for me. I'm number one and
syndication with Black Back Women twenty five to fifty four.
I am number one and I'm number two in syndication
(27:05):
behind Kelly and Mark. So show up for these ladies
because they're trying to use their platform for us too.
And there you have it. Well, Sherry, thank you for
stopping in, and thank you for listening. I'm Amber Payton
on the Black Information Network.
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