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Vanessa Williams

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
873 total appearances

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Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

The mechanics of death, getting, you know, death certificates, going through life insurance, all that stuff.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

And thank God I have my brother that has helped me.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

You know, we've been a duo just kind of tackling all of the business of death together.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

But also I've had an opportunity to grieve.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

And luckily in the show, I literally have to cry every night.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

And that's been kind of a trigger, like, oh, I can let it go tonight.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

Really?

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

And even when she was, you know, at the London Clinic and going through all the tests, and it took 25 days to figure out what was going on until she passed.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

Acute liver failure.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

And we don't know what triggered it.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

And, you know, we had the best liver specialist, Dr. Patrick Kennedy, who I love.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

So we...

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

We're trying to figure out how it happened.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

She was 85, so she could not have gotten... If she had gotten a liver transplant, that would have helped.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

But again, at 85, he said, there's no way we can actually get her on a list.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

Even if she...

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

survived the operation.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

Who knows whether she could survive it.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
VANESSA WILLIAMS: Being the First Black Miss America Changed My Life - But Came at a Cost

I hadn't seen her, so she apparently wasn't feeling well a couple of weeks prior, so we didn't know how bad it was.