Renée Elise Goldsberry reflects on a difficult period in her life.
While appearing on Show Jennifer Hudson with her Girls5Eva The 53-year-old actress spoke with host Jennifer Hudson about how they both starred in the Purplewhich made Goldsberry recall a difficult experience she had during the performance.
“It was a nice thing for me, because Purpleyour production, it was literally exactly 10 years after I did it on Broadway,” Goldsberry tells Hudson. “And it was an emotional time for me, working Purplebecause I lost my baby while working Purple.”
“And I remember thinking when I was accepting the Tony and thanking God for the opportunity to be on that show and to be on this show and to have those kids,” Goldsberry continues, referring to her 2016 award for best actress in a motion picture. musical for Hamilton.
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Renée Elise Goldsberry on parenting: ‘My greatest wish for my children is that they fulfill their purpose’
“I looked out and saw the producers and all of you out there in the audience Purple again, and it felt like God was telling me, ‘Don’t ever forget what I can give you despite what you think you’ve lost,'” she says.
Goldsberry and husband Alexis Johnson had a son, Benjamin, in 2009. In 2014, the couple had a daughter, Brielle, through adoption.
In 2020, the star spoke with PEOPLE about her journey to motherhood, sharing what being a mother means to her.
“My greatest wish for my children is that they fulfill their purpose,” Goldsberry said. “I know that all children, especially mine, are here for a reason.”
“My journey to motherhood has been challenging to say the least and I always feel like I’m alive Slide door version of my life,” she shared with PEOPLE, saying she believes her kids “coming here means they should be here” before adding with a laugh, “I feel like it’s not my job to screw them up!”
She also said that if she could do anything, she would clone herself so that she would have more hands to deal with her two children.
“I want, mostly, to be able to have a job and work full time and also not have to leave my kids,” she said. “If there was a way for me to clone myself, to be at every parent-teacher conference and be there to put my kids to bed every night, and also star on Broadway, I would do that.”
While parenting can be a lot, Goldsberry said it’s the little moments with her kids that make it all worth it.
“My kids make me laugh every day — especially when they’re the earliest,” Goldsberry said, laughing. “My son said to me the other day: ‘Why are you being so dramatic?’ And I just thought, ‘Really? Do you know that word? And also, have you noticed how dramatic I am yet?’ That really made me laugh.”
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