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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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