[Minty smiles, her eyes soft with a deep, newfound respect for the woman sitting across from her. She looks at her notes, then back at Yvonne.]
Minty: "If you could go back to that 12th-grade version of Yvonne—the one who was currently addicted to the mystery and the unknown of Jervien—and you could give her just one piece of that self-care peace you have now, do you think she'd even listen? Or do you think she needed to go through that exhaustion to become the woman who sits here today, firing actresses for being too dramatic?"
[The audience chuckles softly at the callback, but they remain quiet, eager to hear Yvonne's thoughts on the necessity of that past struggle.]
Yvonne: "Let her be. I won't be the woman that I am now without the things that she's been through all those years of seeking love from other people instead of her own."
[The room goes so quiet they can hear the hum of the studio lights. It's a heavy, beautiful moment of self-forgiveness. Minty's expression softens completely; she looks at Yvonne not as an interviewer, but as someone who has just witnessed a person truly at peace with their past. A woman in the front row is seen dabbing her eyes with a tissue.]
Minty: [Her voice thick with emotion] "'Let her be.' That is so powerful, Yvonne. It's like you're giving that younger version of yourself permission to be messy, to be exhausted, and to be human. You're not trying to save her; you're honoring the path she walked to get you here. You had to look for love in all the wrong places to realize the right place was inside you all along."
[Minty takes a moment to compose herself, clearly moved by Yvonne's clarity.]