Shannon Sharp

You know, black people, boy, they frowned upon that.

Yeah.

And then even like my dad had just really given, you know, became a born again Christian and changed his life.

And he was like, yo, I can't have a baby.

Like everybody in the church looking bad.

I'm supposed to be a youth leader in the church and then I'm still outside.

Right.

It's funny because the story, you know, it varies now.

They want to be like, nah, that was your mama.

But I'm sure at that time where there's a teenage girl who's pregnant, everybody's like, yo, this is not a good idea.

Yeah, special, yeah.

Yeah, so I'm, you know, so grateful more than anything to both of my parents, but mainly my mother for saying...

I had a voice inside me and I listened to it.

In the video, it's dramatic because Tatiana Ali was playing my mom and I had her just run out of the clinic and open up and just see the light.

I don't think it was that dramatic.

But my mom says that voice spoke to her and she just had to get out of there and the rest is history.

So what was your relationship with your mom like?

Although, you know, she was 17, a teenager at the time, so basically a kid still herself and having a child.

So what was your relationship?

Because obviously you knew who your mom was, but your...