“He said my name wrong, and I just sat there, like, I grew up my whole life in love with you,” Maya Rudolph said in an interview.
In a clip from the 2009 appearance, Letterman appears to pronounce her name with an"a" at the beginning. He later apologized during the appearance for flubbing her name.
Rudolph, perhaps best known for her seven seasons and subsequent guest appearances on “Saturday Night Live,” spoke to the outlet at the top of the interview about how she struggled with all of the public-facing aspects early in her career, all of which stunted her comedy. “It would always feel like someone was stealing my soul,” she said. “That’s where, over the years, I created a persona to protect myself.”“Believe me, I am not a Pollyanna who’s like, I smile all day, every day,” she explained. “I get stressed out, I get pissed off, but I learned I could make a choice for myself, and it’s liberating. Maybe people who’ve worked as long as I have make other choices and have nicer cars. I don’t know, but it’s so important for me to [try to] have that balance.
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