“And I said, ‘Okay, yes, I’ll do it.’
Then I looked at the scripts and was like,oh my God.”
Her reaction wasn’t unwarranted.

Niecy Nash-Betts in ‘Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’.Netflix
She hears the fights and yells.
She smells the acrid odors of dead bodies.
Her calls to the police aren’t taken very seriously, despite her desperate pleas for help.

Nigel Gibbs as Jesse Jackson and Niecy Nash-Betts as Glenda Cleveland in ‘Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’.Netflix
How do her own experiences factor into whether she will even consider a project that includes victims of violence?
Those things always give me pause.
You know what I mean?
So those are two totally different things that you’re trying to play at the same time."