The Waltons Michael Learned on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson - Part 2

What’re another 14 minutes and a little hysteria between friends? The anticipation of the marvelous Michael Learned makes the slightly bumpy start a small price to pay for her delightful self.

We picked up where we left off Monday and double-backed a little. Growing up on a farm, preparedness for Olivia Walton, paying back her childhood candy debt, her spy father, exhausted mother, being the oldest of 6 sisters, all but one with unusual names, boarding school, moving from dance to drama, meeting Peter Donat, initially riding his coattails, becoming the first lady of ACT Theatre, then divorce, The Waltons, and award-winning success. Missing her own kids, getting bored, leaving, then Nurse, another Emmy, complaining, regretting, back to the theatre, and eventually, TV. Second Acts, and her upcoming leading role on Ryan Murphy’s Jeffrey Dahmer series, tentatively titled, Monster.

We circled back to Michael’s memoir, which I shall continue to encourage her to pen… type, just write! There’s a lifetime of experiences, challenges, successes, bottoming out and then soaring, making errors and learning, a beautiful love story that’s surrounded her for 33 years following years of abuse, sobriety, and recovery, of which she is most humble.

Warm, open, accessible, amiable, and oh so loveable, I enjoyed every moment in this iconic mom’s most excellent company and will carry forth wanting more Michael!

Michael Learned on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson - Part 2

Wednesday, 5/18/22, 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET

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