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Raven-Symoné is sharing a glimpse into her travel astir a decennary aft coming out.
As the Raven's Home star—who was precocious honored with the Icon Award astatine the 9th Annual Better Brothers Los Angeles Truth Awards—shared, opening up astir her idiosyncratic beingness successful 2013 came with its obstacles.
"There were a batch of challenges," Raven exclusively told E! News astatine the March 4 ceremony. "There was the crumbling of the partition that I had enactment up for truthful galore years. And I felt precise vulnerable, it was an absorbing coiled that was opened up successful public."
But astir a decennary later, Raven is inactive saying "oh, snap" astatine the idiosyncratic she's become. So overmuch truthful that the Cheetah Girls actress—who tied the knot with Miranda Maday in 2020—revealed she was really amazed by her latest honor.
"I was taken aback astatine archetypal like, ‘Oh, beatified snap, this is happening, okay?!'" she shared. "But besides honored and humbled and respect that there's truthful galore different radical that merit this. I'm decidedly humbled for taking it. My woman was blessed astir it, though!"
Referring to her wife's excitement implicit her icon status, Raven added, "She said it crossed the room. I was like, ‘Calm down, nary I'm not!'"
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Suffice to accidental that arsenic the icon she is, it makes each the much consciousness that she would person the cleanable proposal (and praise) for queer younker today.
"Y'all amended support going due to the fact that y'all are changing each kinds of conversations that I didn't adjacent cognize was possible!" she said. "But besides respect your elders astatine the aforesaid time."
And arsenic Raven—who has precocious added the title of director to her ever-growing resume—explained, though she's shadowing different directors now, she's hoping to construe her pridefulness wrong her ain enactment sometime successful the future.
"I privation to marque definite I'm creating contented that reflects the assemblage that we're a portion of," the 37-year-old noted. "Respectfully and with dignity."
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