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...first week as co-host of the ABC talk show The View, Sherri Shepherd declared that she didn't believe in evolution. When co-host Whoopi Goldberg pressed her to say whether she thought the world was flat, Shepherd responded, "I don't know ... I've never thought about it." That flub and the ensuing media hysteria inspired her to write Permission Slips: Every Woman's Guide to Giving Herself a Break. The comedian, who also stars in the new Lifetime sitcom Sherri, dished to TIME about how the incident played out, why women are too hard on themselves...
...this kind of book - a sort of self-help memoir? It started with the fact that it was my very first week on The View and Barbara and Whoopi asked me if I thought the earth was round or flat. The response that came out was, "I don't know. I'm trying to take care of my son." I was really nervous. I was totally outside of my comfort zone, and I made a comment that I didn't mean to make. It was a brain fart. I did not know that people were going to hate...
...just being a regular working woman. Yes, I've worked on sitcoms, but I wasn't Star Jones, I wasn't a legal analyst, I wasn't a political pundit. I brought that everyday-woman point of view to it. I wasn't afraid to say I didn't know what stuff meant, and that's how I got through that. But I did set about learning about politics. I felt like Sarah Palin and I were definitely doing the speed-reading version of politics. But I was a Jehovah's Witness. That's how I grew up. Jehovah...
...think that will affect your friendships with those who are still practicing? Oh, yeah. They're gonna be mad! [Laughs.] I have one friend, she's one of my best friends still. She made me change her name in the book because she doesn't want them to know that she's still associating with...
...work, including telling them to give their husbands as much sex as possible, because that's something you think you did not do enough of in your marriage. Do you think you let men off a little easy? This is really a book aimed at women. I don't know if I let men off a little too easy or not. One thing I did say is to give yourself permission to put that teddy on and go be as freaky as you can be, and if you're single, put it up and go learn about...