Cree Summer Opens Up About Being A Single Mother: ‘You Find What Sisterhood Is About’

Growing up, Cree had a great relationship with her parents, and she was a “daddy’s girl.” So, becoming a single mom was hard for her to deal with. “I just fell apart in front of my girls, too, and they got to see me. Because I have to tell you, that destruction was the best destruction of my life in retrospect,” she said. “I am a totally different person after that. Probably a couple of years ago, I would have said I was abandoned, but now I say I was really liberated. And my daughters got to see me hanging on by a mosquito [inaudible] right? And then they got to just see me soar.”

She added, “And I think now the greatest, biggest job as a mother is to be yourself.”

Another thing she found since she and her daughters’ father split is sisterhood. While she didn’t go into specifics about it, she did gush about having a sisterhood of women to help guide you through the changes.

“I often find when you go through a separation and you’re on your own as a single mother, boy, you sure find what sisterhood is about for real, right ‘cause your sisters come in, especially the ones that have been through it already,” she said. “They come in and they tell you that there is another side.”

Cree and her daughters formed a band called Mama and the Savages, and the actress shared how much she loves spending time with her girls. “The thing that I feared the most is the thing I love the most. I feared doing it on my own, and I love doing it on my own. Who would've known?”

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