“Master of Me” Author Keke Palmer  

Air Date: Friday, November 22^nd  

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Keke Palmer Emotionally Reveals She’s a Victor and not a Victim from Child Stardom

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Drew: All of a sudden you're in this family industry we're supposed to have the parent child dynamic but you're working your parents are there, you're being treated like an adult because you have adult responsibilities but you're still a child.

Keke: It's overwhelming. Something happens it overwhelms you and you don't know how to process it. That's when something is traumatizing, whether it's to the body or whether it's to the mind or the heart and when you become a celebrity child, when you make more money than your parents, it's traumatizing. When other people tell you that your parents are worthless because you're making all the money, it's traumatizing. Growing up in a small town where my parents made 40,000 dollars a year and then I'm making that a movie and people are judging my parents and these people gave up everything for me to be who I am today. It has taken so much for me to get to the point of saying, you don’t get to tell my story and you don't get to tell their story. The truth is my family drove 4 days and 3 nights to help their daughter pursue her dream, and she became a generational talent. I'm not a victim. I'm a victor.  That's the story. And so you know, that's the story you get to tell your own story and for so long people try to erase you, erase what it means to be you, what you went through, what it was for, your intentionality behind it, and that's why the cover of my book is this way. I'm not a damn puppet. I'm the master. I know what's going on. I'm not, I'm not an innocent bystander. I'm a part of this I'm engaged with this, you know.

Drew: And I will say what I humbly learned was that I wished I was enough for myself, I wished I had figured things out sooner. But boy is it my kids that changed everything and that's what it seems like for you and Leo.

Keke: My son.

Drew: Like that's where the healing begins.