Katherine Heigl agonizes over how to inform black daughter about George Floyd
In an emotionally raw post, Katherine Heigl detailed her struggle with how to explain George Floyd's death to her children, specifically her black daughter.
"I’ve debated posting this. I don’t typically use my platform or social media to say much when it comes to the state of our country," she began.
"But I can’t sleep. And when I do I wake with a single thought in my head. How will I tell Adalaide?" Heigl, 41, wrote alongside a photo of the 8-year-old daughter she adopted with husband, singer-songwriter Josh Kelley.
The "Grey's Anatomy" alum makes note of her diverse family which includes 11-year-old daughter, Naleigh, whom she and Kelley adopted from South Korea and 3-year-old son Joshua.
She admitted how "naive" and "childish" she was to not realize the "abhorrent, evil despicable truth of racism."
"Hopelessness is seeping in," Heigl said. "Then I look at my daughters. My sister. My nephews and niece. George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. The hundreds, thousands, millions more we haven’t even heard about. I look and the fear turns to something else. The sorrow warms and then bursts into flames of rage."
In a separate post, the "Suits" actress condemned the officers involved in the brutal killing of Floyd and gave her opinion on what justice should look like.
"I want them to pay... I want it to be a painful, irrevocable consequence for their evil acts and behaviors and for those consequences to scare the s--- out of every other racist still clinging to their small, stupid minded hate," Heigl wrote.
"I want him to be an example of what happens to a racist in this country," she added. "All I know is that I want it to end. Today. Forever. Whatever it takes."
