The Haunted Mansion actress also emphasized the importance of listening, learning, and acknowledging one’s own ignorance.
“This life is about love.
Being a parent is about love, and I love Ruby.
Ruby Guest and Jamie Lee Curtis.Mark Von Holden/Getty Images
Love her,” Curtis said.
“People have said, ‘You’re so great to accept her love.’
What are you talking about?
And my job is to say, ‘Welcome home.’
I will fight and defend her right to exist to anyone who claims that she doesn’t.”
And I, I wake up every day sober, saying, ‘I don’t know everything.’
I don’t know a lot.
There are a lot of things I don’t know about.
And there’s a lot of this that I need to learn.'"
Ruby previously opened up about her journey and coming out as trans inan interview with PEOPLEin 2021.
“Me coming out has nothing to do with my mom being famous,” she said.
I’m happy to be more visible if it helps others."
“I’m in support of my daughter Ruby,” she said.
“I’m having [the award] be a they/them.
I’m going to just call them ‘them.’
They/them, and they are doing great.”
“These laws are discriminatory, unjust, and anti-American.
Freedom of expression includes gender expression!
