“He definitely saw me after the show and knew how emotional I was,” Chelsea Devantez tells The Daily Beast of the domestic violence episode of “The Problem With Jon Stewart.”
’s former Apple TV+ show, has kept a pretty big secret for most of her career. But with her new memoir out this week,, Devantez decided it was time to pull back the curtain on her experience with domestic abuse—and what it was like to shepherd Stewart’s Emmy-nominated show while trying to cope with her trauma., as the writers’ room took on 2021’s domestic violence episode. “ definitely saw me after the show and knew how emotional I was.
That story, which Devantez refers to in her book as “The Big Scary Domestic Violence Thing,” is the focal point of “Statistically, if you grow up in a home that has abuse in it, you are way more like to get into an abusive relationship yourself,” Devantez writes, “Ever the rule follower, I leaped right into my probability.”
She also writes of the female friendship that buoyed her along the way, from her mother, to her godmother, to her closest friends, while also acknowledging how she’s seen “girlboss” feminism venture on the absurd throughout her career—particularly the notion that feminism means you have to like every woman. “You can still root for someone to have pay equality while thinking they are a girl-blocking asshole,” she remarks.was a monumental one.
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