00:00We had just gotten married.
00:02I pretty much checked off every box in the world to say to her, leave me.
00:09She stood by me through it all.
00:13Samantha Gibson, my queen.
00:18Thank you so much, thank you, thank you.
00:22It's her birthday week, so I said we're going to switch it up.
00:26So she's prayed me out of my mess, and this was the first movie that I was able to book
00:33after everything that I had to deal with personally, so I came into this movie with a level of vulnerabilities
00:41that I probably couldn't even tap into right now if I wanted to.
00:45I'm going to be as real as I know to be.
00:48I can't say that I was on the receiving end of the beatdown and that some of it wasn't
00:55self-inflicted.
00:57I'm grown enough to be responsible for things that I said and did and contributed to my mess.
01:03We had just gotten married.
01:05I pretty much checked off every box in the world to say to her, leave me.
01:11She stood by me through it all.
01:14She wasn't married for seven years, ten years, and said, we're going through a storm, let's
01:18hawk it out.
01:20We had just been married for, what, a year, booby?
01:22So ultimately, what I will say to anybody who is in it, you may not have your traumas to
01:29play out on public display.
01:33Invite God in.
01:34God sometime needs permission to get in.
01:37There is no handsome, there is no relationship, there is no joke, there is no charm and no
01:42charisma, there is no resume that could have took me out of it.
01:46The Lord Jesus Christ gets all the credit for what he did.
01:52And I believe that sometimes we can become sacrificial lamb because God, sometime if you are embarrassed
02:00publicly and then God ends up turning it all around even more publicly, I've booked, I've
02:07now shot three movies in one year.
02:10Black and Blue was the first and I signed a three picture deal with Marvel Comics.
02:14We got the Teddy Pendergrass movie coming, directed by Lee Daniels.
02:19We got the Fast 9 movie that I just finished, got a double album coming, my third book is
02:24coming, talking about everything.
02:26The level of favor that's unapologetic that's happening on full display.
02:33And there's Essence readers, there's some people that felt the way, some people contributed
02:38to the mockery, but there's some real black women that know me characteristically, that help
02:44pray me out of my mess and I'm forever indebted.
