I wanna thank me.
For believing in me, and doing what they said I could not do.
Niecy Nash-Bettsis thanking a lot of people for her Emmy win including herself.
Niecy Nash-Betts at the Emmys.FOX
Im a winner, baby!
she said at the beginning of her acceptance speech.
Thank you to the most high for this divine moment.
Thank youRyan Murphyfor seeing me.Evan Peters, I love you.
Netflix, every single person who voted for me thank you.
And my better half who picked me up when I was gutted from this work, thank you.
Her most memorable thank-you came next.
And you know who I wanna thank?
I wanna thank me.
For believing in me, and doing what they said I could not do.
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Nash-Betts also took a moment to remember victims of police violence.
Mama, I won!
In the press room after receiving her trophy, Nash-Betts elaborated on why she thanked herself.
“I’m the only one who knows what it cost me,” she said.
And you still have to go home [because] you have children and a whole life.
So, I’m proud of myself.
I’m proud that I did something that people said I could not do because I believed in me.
Sometimes people don’t believe in themselves.
Sometimes you’ve got to take care of what?
It’s not called ‘them esteem,’ ‘us esteem.’
It’s called ‘self-esteem’ because don’t nobody got to believe it but you."
Nash-Betts had previously won a Daytime Emmy for her Outstanding Special Class Program forClean Housein 2010.
