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30 Apr, 2014

Tavis Smiley interview

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Roberts discusses her career, her bout with cancer, and her new memoir, Everybody’s Got Something, in this interview for PBS.

And yes, when I was a little kid playing in Mississippi and somebody would hurt my feelings or something and I’d come in, and Mama said, “Oh, honey, everybody’s got something.” When I got older and the challenges became a little bit more than someone just picking on me, I remember in 2007 when I was diagnosed with cancer, and she sweetly said, “Honey, everybody’s got something.”  That’s what I tried to impart in this book, the life lessons that I learned, to help me get through my something and hopefully get people on the road to something better.

28 Apr, 2014

People cover

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robinRoberts appears on the cover of People to discuss her battle with cancer and how her loved ones helped her through it.

I was at my absolute lowest when my mother passed days before my transplant. I wanted to go away. I was done. But as my sister Sally-Ann told me, it takes courage to believe the best is yet to come. That is where I feel I am now.