Niecy Nash-Betts spoke backstage about her speech on the telecast in which she thanked herself for her success. She won for her role in “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.”
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00:00 I'm the only one who knows what it cost me.
00:03 I'm the only one who knows how many nights I cried because I couldn't be seen for a certain
00:10 type of role.
00:11 I'm the one who knows what it's like to go through divorce on camera and still have to
00:16 pull up and show out, and you still got to go home and you have children and a whole
00:20 life.
00:21 And so I'm proud of myself.
00:23 I'm proud that I did something that people said I could not do because I believed in
00:28 me.
00:29 And sometimes people don't believe in themselves.
00:31 And I hope my speech was a delicious invitation for people to do just that.
00:37 Believe in yourself and congratulate yourself.
00:41 Sometimes you got to encourage what?
00:42 Yourself.
00:43 And that's why it's not called mama esteem, them esteem, us esteem.
00:48 It's called self esteem because don't nobody got to believe it but you.
00:55 I was just surprised in general.
00:58 I don't know what to say.
01:00 I was.
01:01 I've been emotional the whole night.
01:03 It's been a very emotional.
01:04 Honestly, as soon as they started playing facts of life, I was emotional.
01:07 I don't know what's going on, but I've gotten to meet so many comedic heroes of mine tonight.
01:16 And I think I was surprised because I love Rachel Brosnahan and she did fantastic work
01:22 in the last season of Maisel.
01:23 Christina Applegate did incredible work in Dead to Me and I just really would have been
01:28 very satisfied seeing any of those women win.
01:32 Natasha, Natasha is one of my good friends.
01:34 And I don't know, I just wasn't prepared and I was really just enjoying the night and I
01:39 was enjoying just sitting there.
01:41 So I don't know.
01:42 I mean, the things that were like did so well tonight between like Succession, the Beef
01:46 and our show, I feel like these ideas about comedy and drama are a little bit outdated.
01:52 You know, we get bunched in, we get into comedy because we're a half hour, but I don't know.
01:57 We're all just trying to sort of reflect the mess of being human, which is deeply hilarious
02:03 and we're all suffering.
02:05 So, you know.