Laverne Cox

No.

I'm sorry I'm laughing because it's crazy.

She hasn't read the book yet.

How would I describe it?

That's an interesting thing because the way I approached the book is I was like, this is what happened and this is how it made me feel.

But characterizing how my mother was to me, my mother was...

A disciplinarian.

She constantly corrected my grammar, and my brother's grammar, which I'm insanely grateful for now.

Insanely grateful for.

My biggest pet peeve is when people say less when they mean fewer.

Yeah.

Anyway, it's still great.

So my mother, she was critical of appearance and overly concerned about how she appeared to the world.

That was almost like a driving force to her, her not being embarrassed and people not talking badly about her.

And in small towns, people talk quite a bit.

She made it about her.

She made it about what people were saying about her and that people were talking about her and that I was a bad reflection of her.

And then this therapy thing, too, was like, who's going to pay for it?

There's no money.

So I was all of a sudden a problem.