Except Brown had never seen the popular NBC series.
“I was like, what the hell?
he says, laughing.
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“I didn’t want to paint him as just the bad guy,” Brown explains.
Brown immediately gained custody of him, and eventually adopted Jason’s younger half-brother Christian.)
The big revelation in writing that book?
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And vice versa; he learned that he had an influence on me becoming a better man.”
When you look back on those couple of weeks, how do you summarize all of it?
KARAMO BROWN:The word that comes to mind for me is validation.
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I don’t just mean personal validation, I mean validation as a community.
If I don’t bring some tears, there goes an emotional component.
If Jonathan doesn’t bring the funny, there’s goes the humor.
You are a father yourself.
What did you and your son learn about each other as you wrote your new children’s book together?
And vice versa; he learned that he had an influence on me becoming a better man.
Why was it important for you two to open up about that?
So I would be a hypocrite to not show them the challenges I’ve been through in my life … Everything takes work and is a journey.
That’s why transparency in my podcast has been so important.
How does it define you?
People respond to those things, and I have to respond back.
And my response is the definition of who I am.
That’s all of us how you respond is the definition of who you are.
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