Grab your tissue! In an recent interview with Robin Roberts on “Good Morning America,” Tyler Perry gushed about his son, Aman, and how the toddler has impacted his life over the last year. “Every cliche’ is true. Everything they say is real. This kid, he is my healer because I look at myself in his eyes,” said Perry, revealing that his 1-year old has helped him become the kind of father he’s always dreamed of being by providing him with emotional healing. Perry added, “And, everything that I’m finding about growing up and the things that went wrong in my life, I get an opportunity to do them right for him. So, he’s my healer.”
As you may recall, in 2009, the 46-year-old recounted the tormented relationship he had with the man he believed to be his father (in 2014, Perry discovered by way of a DNA test, that Emmitt Perry, Sr. was in fact, not his biological father) on his website, ahead of a pre-screening of the film Precious. “You … jacka–! You got book sense but you ain’t got no … common sense,” he quoted his father as saying. “I heard this every day of my childhood,” said Perry who went on to detail one instance where Perry Sr. gave him a bath in ammonia.
Perry confesses he’d always hoped to be the kind of father he wished he’d had, even long before Aman was ever conceived, “You know, the greatest gift I’m being given right now is the opportunity to give the little boy in me everything I never had, so that’s what I’m excited about–this beautiful human being that God has allowed to come into my life for me to get to know.”
Perry also addressed comments he recently made in an interview with New York Magazine, where he defended his shows and films against critics who say he negatively portrays African Americans.
“I was pretty taken back by it,” he said. “I think everybody has the right to tell their story no matter who you are no matter where you come from. There’s this section of our culture that decides who should and shouldn’t speak, and who has the right to tell their stories and who shouldn’t. I think everybody in this country should have the right to tell their story and be seen and represented in television fairly. I write about the people that I know. I write about the people I’ve seen growing up. These are human beings. Most of them don’t have PhD’s but their stories are still valuable and important.” Go ‘head, Tyler!
