Claire Donald

And that's very, like, innocent.

Like, not like me, where I was trying to, like, ruin people's lives, people's families' lives.

We've got range.

It wasn't that, but, you know.

Yeah, well, Shonda very much had that energy, and she was constantly making up stories, and she would play in the pantry at home and take all the cans and, like, make

characters out of them and story arcs and then when her mom was like Shonda it's time to like do anything else she'd be like well who do I have to kill off now well you know there's always a fine line between a kid with like mental illness as a child versus being like a theater kid and I would really go back and forth between that line it is quite a fine line it is and so she she would spend most of her childhood reading and writing stories but she didn't really see herself as someone who belonged in Hollywood well first of all her family is so academic yeah and

And second, Hollywood wasn't designed for women like her.

Black, introverted, intellectual, and not interested in performing likability.

That is for sure.

That is for sure.

So she didn't really want to be famous, but she did know that she wanted control in her life.

And there's that Capricorn energy.

She was raised Catholic, went to a Catholic high school.

And while she was in high school, she volunteered as a volunteer at a hospital.

Oh.

Clock that T says.

Really?

Like for how long?

I think just like a couple months in high school.

That can leave an impression, can't it?