Tiffany Haddish is looking back on the time she spent in foster care. During a keynote conversation for the Variety Changemakers Summit, Haddish opened up about that time in her life and how it felt to be living day-to-day without a guarantee of the future. “When I was in foster care, I mean, I thought I was going to die there,” Haddish told the outlet. “I didn’t think I would make it to 18.
And when I made it to 18, I was like, ‘OK, I got to really think bigger.’ And I did think bigger, and I’m definitely where I thought I would be.
Well, it’s bigger than what I thought, but I feel the way that I was hoping I would feel, and that’s secure in my ability to provide for me.” Haddish is giving back to the very community she came from through her She Ready Foundation — which pairs foster kids with internship programs. “The Afterparty” actress said she “wanted to take away the feeling of feeling like garbage from kids.” “When I was a kid and I was moving around, all my stuff had to be in trash bags, and moving like that is not good for the self-esteem because it makes you feel like garbage that can easily be transported to here or there,” she added. “You start thinking of yourself as such, as garbage.
That was the worst feeling in the world personally, and I told myself, if I ever get any power, I’m going to try to make sure kids don’t feel like that.
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