Gabrielle Union dives head-on into motherhood, marriage, and epic dance battles while discussing her new book, You Got Anything Stronger?
is out this week, and it’s essentially the sequel to your collection of essays from 2017,How soon after writing the first—very candid, very personal—book did you know you wanted to do it all again?
I want to ask how your relationship with your fans has changed since that first book. You’ve written a lot about the weirdness of people coming up to you all the time and acting overly familiar with you. Are you getting even more of those encounters now that you officially have two extremely personal memoirs on the table?
You talked about going hard on therapy, but I’m curious if you have found ways to protect yourself, the writer, where you’re processing and sharing these experiences but not necessarilyYeah, no. Other than just telling my therapist that I may be calling at any time? And if she can make herself available after each stop? Last time I was trying to FaceTime with her as much as I could, and it just wasn’t enough. After each tour stop, on the plane or in the hotel, I’d just be sobbing.
The reality is that my life has a lot of joy. I’ve been very lucky to have a bomb-ass group of friends my whole life. So to not include some of our antics and adventures would be disingenuous to who I actually am. Yeah, I might have taken an ex-lax at the wrong fucking time and then drank dark liquor and got the fucking shits at a strip club, and yeah, I have also been inundated with thoughts of suicide. Those sides of me can all exist.tell a dirty joke.
Even as I’m talking to you and we’re swinging between the light and the dark within the same sentence, I have to admit I feel thrown. There’s usually not a lot of room for these extremes all in one conversation. I watch all the cheerleading reality shows and dance competitions. I don’t know if she’s a coach. In the original, Isis and Torrance go off to Berkeley and they cheer together, but they cut that scene. We’ve talked about them being coaches of rival squads, or being lifelong friends and then there’s some sort of fissure. But we haven’t found the exact take.to be anything just because we sent Isis to a U.C.
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