“I literally recorded Momma, I Made It! on February 29th — God gave me an extra day,” Orji told Shadow and Act in a recent interview. “And March 13th, the world shut down…The first one came out in the middle of the Black Lives Matter movement and everything that was going on. So, it was just wild. And then people needed the levity, but then once the work kind of stopped, the work began because then it was the internal work that I had to do. When you don’t have the distraction of the outside work, you gotta figure you out.”

“I call it a grown folks comedy,” she added. “When I toured it, it gave people a moment to sit with themselves and the moment that they probably wouldn’t have had or weren’t even expecting to have, but I got a few DMs like ‘That ride home was real introspective.’”

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