Vanessa Williams

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.