Raven-Symoné is placing pen to paper to share her life story — her method.
“I’m writing a e-book. It’s a memoir,” Symoné, 39, teased throughout her Thursday, October 30, look on the “Sorry We’re Cyrus” podcast. “I’m writing a e-book, however I can’t offer you all the pieces. The s*** that we went by?”
Podcast host Tish Cyrus subsequently requested whether or not the previous Disney Channel star deliberate to “dish on” her total childhood fame and past.
“As greatest I can with out getting sued,” Symoné quipped. “ what I imply? And a few folks now are even speaking in regards to the decisions that occurred again then, however I can’t decide them as a result of that was the local weather wherein we lived. … Each single technology, it does get higher, [and] hopefully with our work and our consistency of advocating for one another, issues can transfer ahead.”
Symoné began appearing when she was 3 years outdated, touchdown the function of Olivia on The Cosby Present. Because the actress entered her teenage years, she headlined an eponymous sequence on the Disney Channel and a number of made-for-TV films for the community.
“I didn’t really feel secure [to talk about challenges],” Symoné recalled. “I felt even completely different from Miley [Cyrus, Tish’s daughter] and the opposite children as a result of I had already been on two reveals. I had already been on NBC and WB and, like, I knew what sitcoms have been and knew what celeb was.”
Many years after That’s So Raven ended, Symoné returned to the Mouse Home for a Raven’s Residence spinoff that ran for six seasons. Whereas enjoying the onscreen guardian, Symoné additionally made certain to mentor her younger costars between takes.
“[I was] in a position to assist mildew the subsequent technology,” she recalled. “I’m actually happy with the folks that got here on our present, [who] are succeeding in life and work. I’ll eternally stand by Issac Ryan Brown, Mykal-Michelle Harris, Felix [Avitia], Navia Robinson [and] all of the folks that graced our studio.”
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In response to Symoné, Raven’s Residence taught the younger actors “what the trade was about” and learn how to conduct themselves with full professionalism.
“It’s not about celeb, it’s not about who has probably the most strains,” she acknowledged. “It’s about the way you present as much as set on time, no cellular phone, no flip-flops [and] don’t speak again. There’s a job to do. It may be troublesome for some as a result of it’s a children’ community. I’m, like, ‘No, every episode is $3 million. Go sit down, be taught your strains.’”
Even earlier than Raven’s Residence, Symoné was conscious of her place as a task mannequin.
“I began That’s So Raven at 15, and I had been on two reveals earlier than and had two albums, so I knew that I used to be a task mannequin due to the messaging that was informed to me to be within the trade,” she mentioned. “But, it doesn’t dismiss the truth that there was a variety of stress as a result of I didn’t appear to be all the women that I used to be in the identical class with. I felt like they have been getting extra alternatives due to the way in which that I regarded. It was additionally, like, ‘I’m simply gonna go to work and do what I have to.’”
