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Tyler Perry often revisits the traumatic journey that made him the renowned filmmaker, actor, and entertainment mogul that he is today.
After receiving the Paley Honors Award on Wednesday, The Six Triple Eight director, 55, delivered an emotional acceptance speech about his past.
According to People, Perry began by apologizing to press, as one reporter showed the filmmaker a childhood picture taken by his late mother, Willie Maxine Perry, which triggered his impassioned speech. He was onstage with Oprah Winfrey and Kerry Washington at the time.
“It’s been 15 years, almost to the day, that she passed, so this time of year is really, really difficult for me,” Perry said, referring to his mother’s death on Dec. 8, 2009. “When he showed me that picture, I want to apologize to you guys because I lost it. I couldn’t even finish the press line. But I’m here.”
The Paley Honors Award is presented to “individuals whose groundbreaking achievements in media have consistently set the bar for excellence,” according to the Paley Center.
In his speech, Perry went on to share that at 54 years old, he traveled to Arizona to undergo intensive therapy for the first time.
“I was able to really start to deal with something: the effects of trauma in my life,” the New Orleans native explained.
He then expressed having “suicidal” feelings as a child and that his “earliest memory” was “being very young [and visiting] jail, with my mother and my sisters behind bars.”
“I didn’t even know what this memory was until my aunt told me about my mother trying to leave my father,” Perry added. “And we were driving to California from Louisiana in her car, and it was in his name. So he reported the car stolen, and we all were arrested and sat in the jail, waiting for him to come.”
Perry detailed the abuse that he and his mother met at the hands of his stepfather, Emmitt Perry Sr., whom he recognizes as his father, although Perry’s mother revealed later in life that the two were not related. At another point, Perry spoke about being raped by his neighbor’s mother and how it shaped him to be “stagnant in my ability to fully love.”
Perry also recalled a middle school science teacher who “hated” him and seeing his hamster being killed by classmates, which he remembered in therapy.
“I saw myself walking home with this empty cage and realizing that no one asked me what happened or why the cage was empty. Not one person in my life,” he said.
“So I survived that and forgot all about it, growing up at a time where there was an AIDS pandemic,” Perry continued. “I would go to church every Sunday, and many of the men in my choir would be dead every Sunday.
“Or being stopped and frisked and slammed to the ground, just because I was Black and big, and the police were corrupt,” he added. “But I survived, and I’m here. So I think that’s enough to allow myself to be celebrated.”
By the end of his speech, Perry said that he’s now the “freest version” of himself. “I have turned toward all of that pain, threw my arms wide open, embraced every bit of it, stared the shame, went down in it, and took the power out of it so that I could heal,” he told the audience. “And I would challenge each and every one of you to do that, as well.”
The Six Triple Eight, Perry’s upcoming movie, will debut in theaters on Friday followed by its arrival on Netflix on Dec. 20.
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Tyler Perry often revisits the traumatic journey that made him the renowned filmmaker, actor, and entertainment mogul that he is today.
After receiving the Paley Honors Award on Wednesday, The Six Triple Eight director, 55, delivered an emotional acceptance speech about his past.
According to People, Perry began by apologizing to press, as one reporter showed the filmmaker a childhood picture taken by his late mother, Willie Maxine Perry, which triggered his impassioned speech. He was onstage with Oprah Winfrey and Kerry Washington at the time.
“It’s been 15 years, almost to the day, that she passed, so this time of year is really, really difficult for me,” Perry said, referring to his mother’s death on Dec. 8, 2009. “When he showed me that picture, I want to apologize to you guys because I lost it. I couldn’t even finish the press line. But I’m here.”
The Paley Honors Award is presented to “individuals whose groundbreaking achievements in media have consistently set the bar for excellence,” according to the Paley Center.
In his speech, Perry went on to share that at 54 years old, he traveled to Arizona to undergo intensive therapy for the first time.
“I was able to really start to deal with something: the effects of trauma in my life,” the New Orleans native explained.
He then expressed having “suicidal” feelings as a child and that his “earliest memory” was “being very young [and visiting] jail, with my mother and my sisters behind bars.”
“I didn’t even know what this memory was until my aunt told me about my mother trying to leave my father,” Perry added. “And we were driving to California from Louisiana in her car, and it was in his name. So he reported the car stolen, and we all were arrested and sat in the jail, waiting for him to come.”
Perry detailed the abuse that he and his mother met at the hands of his stepfather, Emmitt Perry Sr., whom he recognizes as his father, although Perry’s mother revealed later in life that the two were not related. At another point, Perry spoke about being raped by his neighbor’s mother and how it shaped him to be “stagnant in my ability to fully love.”
Perry also recalled a middle school science teacher who “hated” him and seeing his hamster being killed by classmates, which he remembered in therapy.
“I saw myself walking home with this empty cage and realizing that no one asked me what happened or why the cage was empty. Not one person in my life,” he said.
“So I survived that and forgot all about it, growing up at a time where there was an AIDS pandemic,” Perry continued. “I would go to church every Sunday, and many of the men in my choir would be dead every Sunday.
“Or being stopped and frisked and slammed to the ground, just because I was Black and big, and the police were corrupt,” he added. “But I survived, and I’m here. So I think that’s enough to allow myself to be celebrated.”
By the end of his speech, Perry said that he’s now the “freest version” of himself. “I have turned toward all of that pain, threw my arms wide open, embraced every bit of it, stared the shame, went down in it, and took the power out of it so that I could heal,” he told the audience. “And I would challenge each and every one of you to do that, as well.”
The Six Triple Eight, Perry’s upcoming movie, will debut in theaters on Friday followed by its arrival on Netflix on Dec. 20.
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