Vanessa Williams
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So again, I hate to bastardize and make this tiny.
But anyway, I resigned.
So yes, I resigned toward the end of my reign.
And so it was not only...
Not only was I labeled as a beauty queen, which negated talent and intellect, but a scandalized beauty queen.
So to start my career, which I wanted to be on Broadway, with that heavy baggage was a massive burden.
And it took me...
More than a massive burden.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It took me 10 years to get on Broadway to be... And through that, I became a recording artist and did television and films, but battled my way through...
I mean, I should have named the book, oh, I didn't know she could do that because it was always like, oh, I didn't know she could do that.
And it was like constantly breaking down assumptions and judgment, which makes you tough, makes you hard, and it's taken a while for me to kind of soften to be back to who I was before I became famous.
It wasn't legal.
I had a lawsuit and my parents were paying for it.
And I had a high powered lawyer.
And of course, that whole magazine had their high powered lawyer team.
And after a while, I was like, you know what?
I want to get on with my life.
And they just didn't care.
They don't care.