EMMA WATSON EXCLUSIVE: The Story She Has Not Shared Until Now

Emma, welcome to On Purpose. I'm so grateful that you're here and you know you've kind of been out of the public eye for a while now. Yes. And don't do that many interviews. I've watched the interviews you have done even before we planned to do this.

And I wanted to ask, from an intention point almost, why now, why today, why here? I think I mentioned, but I read your book because my my dear friend Nupa told me that I should. And every now and again I would see you come up on my feed. I don't spend much time on Instagram anymore, but when I did, I just felt like you were having a different conversation and It's not that I have stopped doing interviews because I want to hide myself away.

I think it's because I wanted to be able to have a certain type of conversation that I didn't seem able to find a space for. And so I called Nooper and said, I think I just reached out to Jay to see if he would let me come and do his podcast on Monday. And she was like, I've been waiting for this. I wondered when you would do this.

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