In a wide-ranging interview, Leslie Jones gets super real and honest about her life. The comedian talks about the good, bad, and challenging moments that turned into life lessons and made her become the strong woman that she is today.
While reflecting on her teen/twenties, Jones talked about her decision not to have children early on. She revealed that she got pregnant multiple times and decided each time to have an abortion.
In an excerpt obtained by Page Six and PEOPLE, Jones wrote she became pregnant multiple times during her on-again, off-again relationship with a man named Richard Brooks. The first time she had an abortion was when she was 18 and Brooks was 27. During their Rocky relationship, the comedian had undergone three abortions by her mid-20s. After the last, she came to the realization that abortion “is not a birth control method.” The super bold entertainer went on to explain, “My mom got sick early in my life and she wasn’t there to teach me about [sex education],” Jones wrote while noting that her mother sadly suffered a massive stroke when she was young. As much as she wished she had been taught properly about pregnancy prevention, she eventually learned about safe sex practices thanks to the educational services offered by Planned Parenthood. She credits the origination for saving her life. “I still give money to them to this day,” Jones said about the non-profit in her memoir. “When I went to Planned Parenthood, I finally learned how to prevent pregnancies and take care of myself. Thank God for those people and what they do.”
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This is not the first time Jones has spoken on the topic of abortions. As we previously reported, in 2019 Alabama voted for the near-total ban on the procedure in an effort to overturn Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court ruling that allowed abortion nationwide in 1973.
During Saturday Night Live, Jones ripped into the abortion law. She said at the time, “You can’t control women because — I don’t know if y’all heard — but women are the same as humans.
When women have a choice, women have freedom,” Jones said about the wave of states passing measures to severely restrict abortion rights. “This really is a war on women.”
Jones’ books takes an even deeper dive into her life and detail her early stand-up days to the craziest behind-the-scenes antics on “Ghostbusters,” and more.
“Now, I’m gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a bitch is fifty-five and she’s smoked a ton of weed. But while bits might be a touch hazy, I can promise you the underlying truth is REAL,” Jones writes in the introduction of her new book.
“Leslie F*cking Jones” which is on Amazon and up for lee-order, is already a No. 1 bestseller.