WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE WITH ANDY COHEN — Episode 20157 — Pictured: (l-r) Kerry Washington, Anderson Cooper — (Photo by: Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images)
*Kerry Washington claims NBA icon Shaquille O’Neal once slid into her DMs.
During a recent appearance on “Watch What Happens Live,” host Andy Cohen asked the “Scandal” star “Who’s the most famous person to slide into your DMs, wanting to connect as a friend or otherwise?”
Washington replied, “Um, Shaq, Shaquille O’Neal. He’s a big Scandal fan. He’s always like, ‘I’ll do anything for Command.’”
According to Decider, Command is the title Washington’s character on the show used to refer to her father.
Anderson Cooper was also a guest on WWHL and confessed that Ricky Martin hit him up on social media. Watch the segment with Washington and Cooper below.
Washington has been opening up about her personal life lately as she promotes her new memoir “Thicker Than Water.” In it, she reveals her past battle with suicidal ideation, her eating disorder, and the moment she found out she was conceived through a sperm donor.
The actress also reveals in the book that she had an abortion when she was in her 20s.
“I struggled a lot in the beginning with whether or not to include my abortion story,” Washington tells People in a new interview. “At first I wasn’t really sure how it fit into this story of my life. But I started to feel like it was really important for me to share this.”
In an excerpt from the book via Time.com, Washington writes: “In my late 20s, I made the difficult and very private decision to have an abortion. About a decade later, I played a character that was the first woman to be shown undergoing an abortion procedure on network television. As women, it is our right to choose what happens to our bodies, our lives, and our futures. It is also up to us to decide when, how, and with whom we share our stories.”
She continued, “While, as an actor, I was proud to portray a woman exercising her right to choose, in real life I never talked about my own abortion publicly. My shame and embarrassment inspired a private silence that hid my personal truth and made me complicit in a culture of secrecy that shames women, our bodies, our choices, and our power.”
Washington added: “As I was writing my memoir, however, I realized how important it is to speak openly about experiences that have been kept in the dark, because when we do so we liberate ourselves and each other. The reality is that abortion is a very real and normal part of women’s lives. I share the story of my abortion procedure here because our right to make choices about our bodies and our lives is under attack both culturally and legislatively. This is my story. I am one of many. And we will not be silenced.”
READ MORE: Kerry Washington Drops Memoir, Reveals She’s Had an Abortion
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