Hollywood legend Cicely Tyson recounts life, career in new memoir

96-year-old stage and screen icon Cicely Tyson opens up to Gayle King about her impressive career and personal life, which she wrote about in her new memoir, "Just As I Am."
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[@breslinhoward6992]

Can’t believe she gone. She was everybody black grandma

[@JessicaJaeBeauty]

Yessss!

[@JayeNovember]

Why bring up race smh

[@kevinpizano2931]

@@JayeNovember Stfu

[@malikastone]

@@JayeNovember there is nothing wrong with acknowledging that she was Black. She was a beautiful Black woman. An exquisite Black icon of a woman. May the Lord bless her soul and may this wonderful lady rest in peace 🙏🏾❤

[@trinitymommy]

I never considered her a grandma. No one can take that spot. She is a legend!! An amazing actress! She had a mystique that I think all women should have. RIP. I’m buying her book too. I actually like memoirs later in life, I’m always confused why a 20 or 30 something writes a memoir when they have soo much life to live.

[@gifted14sho]

After she spoke her whole truth...she was called to glory. R.I.P. to the beautiful and brilliant Cicely Tyson!

[@angeliaimeanttoloveyouharr8404]

Yessss👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@shadaviongrant7605]

I'm here after learning of her passing. Miss Tyson was a true legend of the sense and served her mission well. God rest her soul!!❤🙏❤🙏

[@thaliadunbar296]

34 people clearly don't know a Legend when they see one.

[@toddanthonyy]

...and it keeps going up...such a disgrace to a iconic legend. 😔

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

@@toddanthonyy 😂😂 yeah #75

[@JulianSteve]

The dislikes are from haters, dummies, or misinformed👌🏾😭

[@katinalong5158]

Don't give them the energy.

[@Drizzl1335]

Make that 103 people!

[@ivoted-5489]

I’ve admired her since I was very small. She is just an amazing woman.

[@stevecharles7384]

RIP our dear Queen. What a legendary and inspiring life

[@kenanpaints]

I literally watched this video 16 minutes after it was posted and now I just got the news of her passing. She truly did her best as she put it. An absolute legend she was. Rest in Heaven Cicely. ❤️

[@joveninparis7871]

Ive done my best . I hope we all can say that in our old age 🧡💛❤

[@cadillacdeville5828]

How she speaks and conducts herself is just 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@mrs.g2147]

I was so amazed with Cicely Tyson watching this interview. I can't believe she passed away days later. RIP my beautiful legend, you'll be sorely missed. 🙏💔😢

[@sharita7270]

I love this beautiful, eloquent, power filled, stunning Queen!!! Her work over the years has truly spoke volumes of greatness of her!!!

[@inspire136]

You have ALWAYS touched me Ms. Tyson. You will remain in my heart forever. You have always been a class act, a talented woman and I am so grateful to you for sharing your talent, your life, your amazing tenacity with all of us. Rest Easy beautiful lady.

[@micheleforte2653]

What a beautiful wonderful lady. She will be a legend and always remembered for her grace, talent and wisdom.

[@Mojofoe]

I can’t wait to read her memoir!

[@ruthwallace641]

I have enjoyed her performances throughout the years. THANK YOU Ms. Tyson for all you have done!!!! Rest in Power.

[@jamesinbaltimore5487]

Ms. Tyson was a national treasure. May she rest in peace.

[@Mmmkay10]

AN ICON! A LEGEND! A GIFTED ARTIST! RIP BEAUTIFUL CICELY TYSON!

[@ladyday554]

Wonderful. Just wonderful.

[@papadre70]

If they claim we not Human beings. Damn we age so well 96 and still Beautiful. 😀😀

[@wildoceanappaloosawomangay2535]

Another of the greats gone, not many left. I love and miss her just like most everyone. 🩸💔🙏

[@selwynjsilk5379]

Legends May Fall, but wouldn't be forgotten 💪...... play on player.

[@JazzyJexy]

Rest Well Ms.Tyson...thank you for sharing your beauty with us!

[@shalesevaulx8702]

Wow never would have imagined this sudden death right after the mimour, or think that would be the last her last interview when we were watching

[@wildflower434]

Amazing amazing amazing woman. Thank you, Gail King for honoring Ms. Tyson last interview. So ironic, I been watching her interview and planning to buy her book. Only to leave Us a few days later. Even with those few days, openly to Know Ms. Tyson. It was an amazing honor. She was definitely greater than Meryl Streep. Played almost every characters I loved and was in my favorite movies. Definitely represented African Americans women history, heritage and herself. I loved her range, depth and heart of her character. As well her strength, courage and sadness. Ms. Tyson gravitate characters that hold these qualities. I will miss the actress and now discovering the person Ms. Cicely Tyson. It took until now, We are now discovering you. I am glad to know as a great actress. Our most greatest black actress. Our first classic trained great black actress. Our greatest black actress in history. Thank you to know you to see your work and your influence. To see many actress traveled in your shoes. Viola Davis, Regina King, Angela Bassett, octavia Spencer, Kerry Washington, and Phylica Rashad to name a few. The doors, are open wide and the glass is broken thanks because of you. But deserved to recognize as the original and be honored. Thank you, for being great, awesome, classical, dignified, beautiful and magnificent. As a woman and the greatness of Acting. Racism have never controlled you. Your greatness as an actress made you more superior than any racism, discrimination or bigotry. Ms. Tyson will excel into great whatever adversity is front of her. So There is no bitterness in not receiving her benefits. Only strength to push forward, to claim what is mine and this is who I am as a dark skinned, black woman. Thank you Ms. Tyson. RIP It was awesome to know you and your greatness. ❤️❤️❤️😢

[@tbaby121210]

WOW.... REST WELL QUEEN. YOU WILL BE GREATLY MISSED BUT MOST DEFINITELY NEVER FORGOTTEN. WE LOVE YOU❤❤❤❤❤

[@nomvulankoro2109]

I am sadden, she passes on. RIP Queen..... You gave us your BEST as you said.

[@Sharrosh1]

RIP! One of the great ones!

[@lesliemiles4053]

I adore her as well. Such an inspiration!

[@tnicoleUtube]

A QUEEN! Rest in beautiful peace~job well done

[@sharoncharles6693]

She’s a touch of class I will miss love u so much

[@OCRATHLETE]

A Trip To Bountiful::: What a wonderful contribution to the WORLD. A great interview also. Thank You Ms Tyson

[@LadyMul]

Rest in peace our dearest Queen. I’ve been checking on you and really believed you’d make it to 100. I look forward to reading your memoir ❤️🖤🙏🏾

[@themichael-legrand]

Video posted on January 26, 2021 and gone from this earth on January 28, 2021. Truly one incredible actress and an absolute legend. Rest In Power Cicely Tyson.

[@haendel8a]

wow this interview is outstanding. This woman deserved all success and so much more! What a life!

[@kamakauli]

This woman is a treasure ❤️

[@AR-oi4hg]

Would love a movie about her but I cant think of anyone on this planet that carries her energy or talent to play such a role.

[@wilsonbreige4908]

Such a beautiful soul

[@jeffsnow886]

Black excellence!! Held our hearts for years. RIP QUEEN.

[@Jojo-ru1rz]

She was a beautiful woman. Rest In Peace

[@judybriones7495]

She will be missed dearly ❤️🙏🏻

[@joshuaalexander6296]

RIP truly a legend.

[@zorieddie8946]

I’m buying her book ❤️God Bless Your Spirit 🥺

[@LRDSEKHMET]

WE LOVE YOU CICELY TYSON The incomparable actress vowed only to portray strong, positive and realistic images of Black women

[@SpringWashamTeacher]

Beautiful interview!!! She is amazing

[@user-mq3ts7lr9l]

She was so beautiful, until the end 💓

[@wardlewis35]

what a life!! my moms was born in 1920 passed in 2019 what these women must have seen in their life times, Whew!! she even met that reprobate that played trumpet, lol So proud to see Barack put that medal on her. she was, is, will always be,... priceless! a wonderfull woman!!! john coltrane is playing " upstairs" for her today. nobility, hers ,..what a generation

[@cstanton228]

R.I.P To the Legend 🕊🕊🕊

[@reginalddurley4162]

Cicely Was loved by everyone

[@duhcoffeedoll]

She Knew 💕

[@jennifernunya909]

I don't know what the afterlife is really like but this got me hoping and wishing that reincarnation is a real thing because this woman needs to come back to this earth. The strength, the kindness, the class, the wisdom, the beauty, the determination...we need more women like her. All little girls should be looking up to this icon. Rest in peace💔

[@zachhoran]

Two days later, Cicely Tyson was a contestant on the January 28, 2021 episode of Celebrity Bucket Kickers.

[@mimIsra1]

May her beautiful soul rest in peace

[@judykennedy5985]

Yes Payfan She was indeed our QUEEN !!

[@MrMarkymark005]

How long ago was this filmed? It is amazingly timely how she finished her memoir, along with this final interview so close to her going home. It's like she KNEW she had a final piece of art to complete with her memoir. She said, my work is done & my legacy shall live on. Rest In Power Miss Cicely Tyson. 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@keshaheffron4425]

Love her!

[@ddbears3686]

Legend..

[@laneyjackson5916]

My heart is broken 💔

[@stacilanaerandall]

Rest In Heaven QUEEN

[@sherryroberson9101]

I loved her. She was a beautiful human being and great actress and It was a terrible thing she went througj in what she told in her interview. she is a highly respected and admired lady and woman of God.

[@princellasartcraftsspiritu8082]

One little word of advice to Gayle, Don't ask then answer the question. Ask her then pause and give her a chance to answer. Love you Gayle. R.I.P Ms. Tyson .

[@keradangeroustalk]

Great interview

[@shelettabeverly3261]

Rest In Peace Queen!

[@marquishacorbett798]

It’s crazy how she just passed away, only a couple days after she published her memoir. I guess God figured she had a few more things to say about her life before she left. Thank you for almost 100 years Ms. Tyson. We will miss you truly ❤️

[@kimbramonroe7266]

Yes!!! My God.....❤️

[@shaqualynnventress2442]

I’m sitting here saying and thinking the same ish.. i literally just texted this to my gf 😩 it’s so upsetting man frfr

[@mlmc58]

Right!

[@llewis8812]

God allowed her to have her final words written before He called her home.

[@sarahb6163]

and she had an interview tomorrow on kelly and ryan

[@Jazmyn128]

Rest in peace queen!

[@jazzmanchgo]

"When an elder dies, a library burns to the ground." (West African proverb)

[@MRG09100]

OMG it's so wise and so beautiful. I'll be using it. Thank you for sharing!

[@diggy92hanna]

Luckily she shared many of books, proverbs and roles with us, so although the physical structure may be gone the knowledge it’s shared will live on forever.

[@stilesjohnson1745]

Wow

[@JAllen-tx3di]

Wow So true. Bless you for sharing

[@sandrawilson1413]

The Storyteller

[@peytonsplace17]

“When the time comes what do you want us to remember about you?” “I did my best!” 😭😭😭 We’ll miss you, our Queen 👸🏾

[@MsSexyred440]

That part got to me

[@AnastasiaBeaverhousn]

I had to pause it there.. The tears started!!💔

[@Earthy9025]

🌷 I agree!

[@clips8387]

Who’s here after her passing? 🙏

[@chancynya]

RIP to her. She has touched us ❤

[@sandrahunter5904]

My 💔 is broken

[@sandrahunter5904]

@Mason Ciccone: Shut up thang!

[@Marsh_Mel]

Me... in South Africa

[@tezntweet]

Omg. She was suppose to be on some talk show this week.

[@YourExcellency]

She is black royalty. She's a queen. I would love to see her play a black queen.

[@ijumaainjabulo5983]

So true.

[@blackberry4life482]

A queen and the G.O.A.T at the same time! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@1handsmoke565]

RIP 🙏🙏🙏 You will me missed Ms TYSON👑

[@nehsangbong7259]

She's gone now 😢

[@justinrhoden120]

So sad she just passed away😔R.I.H Black Beautiful Queen❤️❤️❤️

[@crystalgarcia7730]

This poor lady I feel so bad for women her age they are barely now talking about the sexual Harassment they received their whole life.

[@zxcccccc1]

Who would have listened and what would be done about it?

[@sunshinerobinson1123]

WOW 🥺 What a story. I just got her book.

[@nomvulankoro2109]

What a shame, the trauma she carried with get. It may have been the reason why her relationships failed, why she stayed with an abuse man.

[@kamrenmingo6288]

So sweet Mrs. Tyson rest in peace.💕💗💕🙏🙏🙏👰🤴👑

[@Morphedintoiat43]

@@nomvulankoro2109 Great point.

[@dhuluufiklihassan537]

So she died two days later, may her soul rest in eternal peace...she was an Icon

[@MrTron15]

She is truly a lady with poise. We really don't give her enough credit she has given the world so much to her acting in movies. And I am grateful to have seen her work in my lifetime.

[@lastdays3148]

👏🏾👏🏾🙋🏾‍♀️ Well said for the Legend Miss Cicely Tyson🌹

[@rosalindbryant4921]

Amen

[@LeonC0704]

She is SOOOO elegant

[@MrTron15]

@bakeem95 I literally watch this interview the other day and then she just passes away I'm so shocked and it was really unexpected but she did live a long life.

[@matefamily7883]

She is such an amazing and legendary actress and woman. Can’t wait to get her book.

[@1handsmoke565]

💨💨Ms Tyson is reading another book in her next chapter of life. RIP you will be missed. 🙏🏿

[@rosiebrooks7685]

@@1handsmoke565 I'm so scared for real. I was talking to my mom the other day about her because they kept posting this interview about her and about her book. In my mind I said she must be about to die soon because they promoting a lot of her this week. Then today as I was getting of work her death popped on my phone. This really have did something to me.

[@1handsmoke565]

@@rosiebrooks7685 Same here I felt it especially at the end of the interview when she said “I’ve done my best” that response. ♣️

[@itsnowornever4812]

@@rosiebrooks7685 YES IT DID. LIFE COMES AND GO. 😧😢

[@tracymcnair1303]

RIP QUEEN

[@SenatiaA]

96? This great dame, she still look great. She is my favorite actress, a great American, and national treasure.

[@RaymondHng]

I first saw her in _The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman_ back in 1974 where her character is shown from ages 23 to 110.

[@londonbirdSE]

My God. A child calls his father “Daddy” and how shocking the minds of bigots.

[@edglebennett6312]

Isn't that rich? I think that's how most of them think about us.

[@KASalaam2U]

Some people are so willfully ignorant.

[@UncleDuTheWatchman]

Pure WILLFUL ignorance. What else was he supposed to call him?!!

[@timnel32able]

Our angel has got her wings. She will be missed, just saw this interview yesterday!

[@SuperBC1975]

So sorry to hear of her passing. Cicely Tyson was an icon and a trailblazer.

[@yaaaaaaaaayo9808]

It's so sad seeing this after hearing of her passing. She really was a wonderful person. She helped get the black acting community to how it is today. Rest in Peace, Cicely

[@nomvulankoro2109]

I have a tear in my eye ....All she wants her legacy to be 'She did her best'. What humility, that I will take with me as a lesson, a leaf from her tree of wisdom and strive for.

[@danitae999]

Beautifully said.

[@lower_than_furries9727]

Amen sister.

[@danteduruisseau6854]

No one ever mentions her role portraying Harriet Tubman in the movie, "A Woman Called Moses."

[@lalat5899]

Never about this. I’ll look it up

[@UncleDuTheWatchman]

Almost never! And I actually saw that one before I saw Jane Pittman because I was born after Jane Pittman came out so I didn't see it until the first time it ran on PBS years later.

[@thehopeofeden597]

Couldn’t leave us without us knowing her story. Rest In Peace, Queen Cicely! Thank You For All You’ve Done For Us!

[@ImaJiveTurkey]

Her catalog of work is insane. Her acting skills are immeasurable. She deserves much praise and adoration while she is still here...just like Betty White.

[@ebonyhurst8098]

wow she gone and you just said this a day ago

[@ImaJiveTurkey]

@@ebonyhurst8098 i know!! I'm so saddened by this one😔🙏🏾💔

[@jmjfanss]

And to a lesser extent marla gibbs.

[@ImaJiveTurkey]

@@jmjfanss I agree 100%.

[@Cruzan9]

She really was something. "I've done my best." Her best was more than good enough IMO. R.I.P.

[@validperccs8]

Who Else Came Back After Hearing About Her Death 😞❤️ ?

[@eprahs1]

Why do y'all ask such questions?

[@validperccs8]

@@eprahs1 This My First Time Doing This. Chill Tfk Out. & Because It Was A “Who’s With Me?” Typa Question. Anything Else ? You Act Like I Asked About How She Died Or Sumn. 🙄

[@lastdays3148]

@@validperccs8 ,I have🙋🏾‍♀️ After I posted a comment onto this Video. Prior towards her journeying on. The Elegant & Eloquent Miss Cicely Tyson would be truly missed🌹

[@GHGMUZIK]

“I done my best. That’s all...” - Cicely Tyson God replied: “Well done, good and faithful servant. You were faithful over a few things; I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your Lord.” -Matthew 25:21 Well done Cicely Tyson. See you in the Morning ❤️

[@whatistruth1155]

You don’t know what you talking about. A lot of you all are going to be disappointed.

[@therain1189]

@@whatistruth1155 Why are you on this video?

[@UncleDuTheWatchman]

@@whatistruth1155 If it isn't true then how would we be disappointed? We wouldn't even know that nothing happened...

[@UncleDuTheWatchman]

The Word of God

[@robertbrown8374]

Little did we know that that would probably be her last interview.

[@fvnaticbychoice]

in a way she probably had feelings of “finality” she was on this earth nearly a century, I know the intuition was strong.

[@1handsmoke565]

@@fvnaticbychoice So true..... Your statement was DEEP and REAL 👌🏿

[@MsSexyred440]

I think thats wht she released her memoir 2 days before her death like maybe she felt it was coming soon

[@soniaharrison1016]

It was an amazing interview, she looked wonderfull

[@ebonecook2947]

Kelly and Ryan was her last interview they played it this morning....

[@Nicole-London]

Listening to her speak, all i could do was smile. I felt like a sponge and she was running water.

[@janetruh7476]

What a beautiful interview, of such a magnificent woman. Bless you for sharing her story with us.

[@john.garcia240]

She just died

[@kaybrown2201]

"I've done my best" Yes you have Miss Tyson. Rest in peace queen.

[@elenalatici9568]

Such an extraordinary woman.

[@DavidRichardson95]

She was supposed to appear on _Kelly and Ryan_ tomorrow. This is so surreal. RIP.

[@anitadalton6188]

She did they taped it wensday and she died the next day...

[@DavidRichardson95]

@@anitadalton6188 Wow. I'm glad I set my DVR. Planning on getting her book too. It's about to be a best seller. RIP to the Queen.

[@itsnowornever4812]

@@DavidRichardson95 Man her memoir was SOLD OUT before she died and now always OUT OF STOCK and is the BEST SELLER on AMAZON. AMAZON also just released a face mask of Ms Tyson. She deserves it. 🙏🏿

[@DavidRichardson95]

@@itsnowornever4812 Well deserved. A fitting end to a beautiful life. I plan on getting a copy when they stock up.

[@africamcfadden6346]

She don’t look 96 but blessed 🖤

[@1handsmoke565]

She’s looking good now she has passed on to another life. RIP

[@itsnowornever4812]

YES SHE DOES. LETS BE HONEST HERE. SHE IS A QUEEN 👑

[@grannyty6588]

Her life is a ‘living’ testimony! She lived her purpose until the end and will leave a footprint for future generations! Her wisdom that was delivered in her roles is eternal. Just as she said she was more than an actor she was actually an activist! Rest In Power Queen Cicely Tyson👑👑

[@Karla_Marie]

I don't even know where to begin. She endured a lot. There is steel underneath that beauty.

[@bandygreen2456]

That family picture of them! Her mother looks so beautiful, I adore the fashion of that time

[@lastdays3148]

@1:25 Yes I had to paused the Video and take in all of that Elegance of their family. @1:30 wow Miss Cicely Tyson was and still is Elegantly Gorgeous. As a little girl, during the 1970s. I was captivated by her presence on the Screen🌹

[@samahj8567]

This was divinely orchestrated. The timing of her death, the book and the interview.

[@stilesjohnson1745]

Yup feel The same way.

[@Sherryqueenshevisions]

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[@sophiadavenport3959]

I never knew she had children this is fascinating.

[@anonymousgirl799]

@Lilth in Pisces I thought she only had step children, through Miles Davis. Who knew?

[@Eli-kq7qt]

That’s what I just wrote everything on the internet says she never had children. Not even that she gave one up. But in this interview sounds like she raised the child...

[@kikoko6035]

@@Eli-kq7qt yes i am wondering cause wikipedia says she never had children

[@kikoko6035]

Or maybe she keeps her life private

[@MsSexyred440]

Yep she kept her life private finally said something about her daughter in her memoir

[@wilsonjoe7992]

Rip Ms. Tyson, you’re indeed a legend . Well It’s a new year with bright and beautiful ideals , hope you’ll got a huge list for this 2021 . Coz last year was messed up due to many weren’t wise enough to consider investment . But the question, what will you achieve this year?

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[@lottietucker3082]

Grace personified.

[@mvn4514]

The true definition of Black girl magic. What a legend. What a queen. What a beauty. Good Black never cracks.

[@jasminejones255]

Yes yes I’m so happy this legend is getting her flowers while she’s still here ! She’s been thru so much and is so legendary 🌹🤍 may she continue to be blessed and highly favored ❤️🙏🏽

[@michaeld.williamsiii9026]

Amen that’s right Cicely will always be one of the greatest Reigning Queens!!! I’ll never forget discovering and hearing about her from my late, Grandmother.💜🙏🏾👑 #PhenomenalWomen

[@stoneywonder3234]

😔

[@michaeld.williamsiii9026]

@@stoneywonder3234 Just saw and heard the sad news so heartbreaking not long after seeing this interview she’s gone...😢💔🥀

[@debbiesutherland6890]

Oh Oh Oh Love My Lady Star Cicley Tyson Her acting fit. perfectly@@@