John Legend: Beyond the Headlines of Miscarriage, Kanye West Fallout & the Hidden Cost of Stardom (E354)
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My mother was living in the street. She um started using drugs, self-medicating. She was out of our lives where he is now very sad and disappointing and pretty alien from the person I knew. I had this drive in me, this fire, this passion in me. Every aspect of my life had music in it.
The best way for them to get to know who I was was for me to sing. Coming up on high performance, John Legend, our very first egot guest. That's right. This is a guy with an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony all resting on one mantelpiece. In this powerful conversation, John opens up to me about being abandoned by his mother as a child, his slow and steady rise to stardom, and why he's still working to live up to the name Legend.
He shares the real story behind his decade long marriage to supermodel Chrissy Teagan, the secrets to making it work in the spotlight, and where he now stands with the man he says helped launch his career, Kanye West. This is a remarkable life lived with purpose. So let's get on and welcome John Legend to High Performance. Well, John, you've run An Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, one of only 19 people.
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