Leslie Jones had three abortions when she was youthful.
The 56-year-old actress had her first termination when she was 18 and courting a person names Richard Brooks, who was 27 on the time, and she or he advised how their on-again, off-again romance lasted “too a few years” they usually didn’t use contraception, however she has no regrets about her choices.
She wrote in her new memoir Leslie F—— Jones: “All I felt was an urgency to not be pregnant. So, I had an abortion, and it was very arduous. I don’t need to say it was incorrect, as a result of to at the present time I might do the identical factor.”
Jones — whose mom by no means recovered after she suffered an enormous stroke when her daughter was younger — expressed her remorse that she simply “didn’t know any of that stuff” about stopping being pregnant.
She wrote: “My mother received sick early in my life and she or he wasn’t there to show me about [sex education].”
After present process three abortions, the previous “Saturday Evening Dwell” star realized: “This isn’t a contraception methodology.”
Jones credit Deliberate Parenthood, which gives intercourse training and knowledge, and reproductive well being care, for saving her life.
She stated: “I nonetheless give cash to them to at the present time. After I went to Deliberate Parenthood, I lastly realized forestall pregnancies and deal with myself. Thank God for these folks and what they do.”
The “Grocery store Sweep” host — who break up from Brooks in 2010 after he allegedly gave her an STD and received another person pregnant — defined her worry of giving delivery got here after her well being class was proven a video in ninth grade.
She advised Folks journal: “I keep in mind operating all the best way house and I seemed proper at my mother and stated, ‘I’ll by no means try this!’ ”
And Jones doesn’t remorse not having had a household of her personal.
She stated: “I didn’t get married and have youngsters, however I don’t know if that’s what I needed. I’ve all the time needed to deal with myself.”
