Actress Niecy Nash-Betts just gave us all a reminder in self-love. During her now famous Emmy award acceptance speech, Nash shared some powerful words with the audience.
After winning for Outstanding Performance in Netflix’s series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story as Glenda Cleveland, Nash first declared, “I’m a winner baby!”
“Thank you to the most high for this divine moment. Thank you Ryan Murphy for seeing me. Even Pierce, I love you. And Netflix, every single person who voted for me, thank you. And my better half (in reference to wife Jessica Betts) who picked me up when I was gutted from this work,” Nash continued.
In a moment we’re still all relishing from, Nash asks, “You know who I want to thank? Me! [audience laughter] I wanna thank me for believing in me, and doing what they said I could not do.”
“And I wanna say to myself in front of all you beautiful people: go on, girl, with your bad self. You did that, the actress adds. “And finally, I accept this award on behalf of every Black and brown woman who has gone unheard yet over-policed. Like Glenda Cleveland. Like Sandra Bland. Like Breonna Taylor. As an artist, my job is to speak truth to power, and baby, Imma do it til the day I die.”
Once backstage doing press interviews, Nash further explained, when a reporter asked, “I’m the only one who knows what it cost me. I’m the only one who knows how many nights I cried because I couldn’t be seen in or a certain type of role. I’m the one who went through divorce on camera and still have to pull up and show out and you still got to go home, and you have children and a whole life. So, I’m proud of myself.”
“I’m proud that I did something but people said I could not do because I believed in me. And sometimes people don’t believe in themselves and I hope my speech was a delicious invitation for people to just that. Believe in yourself. And congratulate yourself. Sometimes you have to encourage ‘what?,’ yourself. And that’s why it’s not called mama-esteem, them-esteem, us-esteem, it’s called self-esteem, cause don’t nobody got to believe it, but you.”
Congratulations Niecy Nash on your Emmy win! Outstanding performance indeed.
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