Sherri Shepherd explains why she did not begin voting till she joined “The View”

Sherri Shepherd says she didn't vote till becoming a member of The View — and that certainly one of her fellow cohosts was instrumental in serving to her notice the significance of performing that civic responsibility.

"I used to be a Jehovah's Witness, so I didn't begin voting till I received on The View," Shepherd shared on Tuesday's episode of The Jamie Kern Lima Show. The Emmy-nominated speak present host, comic, and actress defined that she was "not into politics," however "Barbara Walters mentioned one thing to me that made me do it."

When the late broadcast journalist and longtime cohost of the favored daytime speak present realized that her new cohost "didn't know something about politics," Shepherd mentioned Walters got here to her and easily prompt, "'Pricey, learn a guide.'"

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"All I knew was what the church taught me. That's what it was. I didn't assume for myself. I simply knew what the church had taught me or what I had realized once I was a Witness," Shepherd elaborated.

The 58-year-old Chicago native beforehand revealed in her first 12 months as a View cohost that 2008 can be "my first time I'll be voting as a result of I used to be in a faith the place we didn't vote." Members of the Christian denomination are inspired to "stay politically impartial for spiritual causes," in keeping with official Church doctrine, primarily based on interpretations of a number of Biblical passages, and the concept "by remaining impartial, we’re in a position to communicate freely to individuals of all political persuasions about the excellent news of God's Kingdom."

However Shepherd recalled that when Walters informed her to get herself educated, "What I noticed is typically we’ve got to get out of the place we reside, we’ve got to go journey the world, we’ve got to fulfill individuals which can be completely different from us. As a result of once you don't, that's the way you get prejudice and that's the way you get judgmental. While you don't meet individuals that aren’t such as you, once you meet individuals which can be completely different from you."

Shepherd credited the shift in her political perspective to Walters in addition to present cohosts Pleasure Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, recalling the previous telling her, "'Sherri, the second you open your mouth, half the world goes to hate you. So go by what you’re feeling and what you assume.'"

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The View offered the each day daytime house for Walters from 1997 to 2014. Shepherd joined the ABC program in 2007, ultimately leaving the identical 12 months as Walters, who died in 2002 on the age of 93.

You possibly can watch Shepherd's full interview on The Jamie Kern Lima Present above.

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