Raven-Symoné is placing pen to paper to share her life story — her approach.
“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 whole childhood fame and past.
“As finest I can with out getting sued,” Symoné quipped. “You understand what I imply? And a few folks now are even speaking concerning the decisions that occurred again then, however I can’t decide them as a result of that was the local weather through which 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Symoné began performing when she was 3 years outdated, touchdown the position of Olivia on The Cosby Present.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 protected [to talk about challenges],” Symoné recalled. “I felt even totally 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 movie star 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 taking part in the onscreen mum or dad, Symoné additionally made certain to mentor her younger costars between takes.
“[I was] capable of assist mould the following technology,” she recalled. “I’m actually happy with the people who 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 people who graced our studio.”
Based on Symoné, Raven’s Residence taught the younger actors “what the trade was about” and find out how to conduct themselves with full professionalism.
“It’s not about movie star, it’s not about who has essentially the most strains,” she said. “It’s about the way you present as much as set on time, no cellphone, no flip-flops [and] don’t discuss 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, study your strains.’”
Even earlier than Raven’s Residence, Symoné was conscious of her place as a job 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 job mannequin due to the messaging that was advised to me to be within the trade,” she stated. “But, it doesn’t dismiss the truth that there was numerous strain as a result of I didn’t seem like the entire women that I used to be in the identical class with. I felt like they have been getting extra alternatives due to the best way that I appeared. It was additionally, like, ‘I’m simply gonna go to work and do what I must.’”
