Vanessa Williams

I'm going to resign.

Wow.

Let's forget the lawsuit and let's move on.

Um, I was, uh, thank God I had a great team, but my, my parents and then, uh, loving friends that, um, believed in me obviously, and believed in my future.

And I just had to kind of like, you have no idea who you think you, you know, um,

And so it was like, I'm going to prove it to you.

And it was trying to be respected and taken seriously and, and to show my intelligence.

But also I want to have a normal life.

And I threw myself into, you know, I ended up,

And my publicist who came in to help me with the crisis ended up being my boyfriend, who ended up being my manager, who I ended up marrying and having three kids with.

So I kind of threw myself into this is going to be normal and I'm going to control my personal life.

So I had that as the escape from the reality.

But he was also very realistic because he was also attached to my career.

So he would be like, you know what?

Things aren't going to be this easy for you.

So he was the wise sage, but also not as optimistic as I was.

So I was like, I'm going to do it.

And he's like, got to be realistic.

So I guess it was a good balance because that always fueled my fire when people said, now watch me.

I love that.