Actress Chelsea Handler said her new Netflix documentary will be about exploring white privilege and she even wants President Trump to tune in.
The documentary, titled Hello Privilege, It’s Me Chelsea, is set to be released on Saturday and Handler said, “everyone should watch it. Especially you, Mr. President” on Thursday.
My new documentary premieres on @Netflix in 2 days. It’s called ‘Hello Privilege, It’s Me Chelsea.’ It’s about me, Chelsea, exploring white privilege. And yes, everyone should watch it. Especially you, Mr. President.
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) September 12, 2019
Netflix says the documentary will show Handler as she “travels around the country speaking with a wide range of people on the topic of race including fellow comedians Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish, and W. Kamau Bell, anti-racism writer and activist Tim Wise, a Republican women’s group in Orange County, CA, college students at an open mic night, and her former high school boyfriend in New Jersey.”
In the trailer, Handler can be heard saying she “clearly” is the beneficiary of white privilege and wants to learn to be “a better white person to people of color.” One example she uses in the trailer is how she was caught by the police with dime bags with her African American boyfriend and she was let go, while he was arrested.
Handler said she went to therapy after Trump won the presidential election in 2016, in part because his win brought up old emotions that were related to her brother’s death.
“I had to pay a psychiatrist to listen to me b—h about Donald Trump for about the first three weeks,” she said. “And then once when we got past that and got to the real stuff, I realized the parallel there was my world becoming unhinged when I was a little girl — my brother died when I was 9 years old.”
