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Wanda Sykes Says Motherhood Encouraged Her To Come Out | Wanda Sykes discussed her coming out process with Rosie O’Donnell on OWN’s The Rosie Show last night, revealing how her desire to live her life and become a mother pushed her to publicly come out as a lesbian. “I just got married, and then it was the Prop 8 thing in California — and that just made me angry — and then also, we were planning on having a kid…you can’t make the kid feel like there is something wrong or there is shame in it. So definitely, that was a motivator to come out,” she said. Watch it:
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