Mandy Moore

As somebody from St.

Louis, when Ferguson happened, like with Mike Brown, that was also just like,

this gut punch and I was doing a play in New York City at the time.

We wanted to go out and do a form of protest, but the stage manager was hesitant to let us do it.

But then we were like, we're the cast, so we're going to do what we need to do.

There is this thing that happens where you're like, okay, at a certain point, I need to take care of me.

And consistently responding to everybody else takes that away from you.

Yeah, of course.

And I had this conversation with Kay, and she's like, exactly.

And it's not something, because I remember seeing this in comments too.

when we get to it in episode 502, but people saying like, but Kate didn't do anything wrong.

I said, nope, she didn't.

Kate didn't do anything wrong.

She was doing the best that she knew how to, right?

And so you were talking about uniquely in a place where we could address this.

These difficult conversations that transpire in life, just because they're difficult doesn't mean that they are meant to be avoided, right?

And that we have two people, first of all, that we know unequivocally love each other.

And when love undergirds the conversation, regardless of how difficult that conversation is, you know at the end of the day, you're still my sister, I'm still your brother.

Nothing's going to change that.

And I feel like,