The Masked Singer winner is calling out the foolish games she dealt with from male journalists in the ’90s.
Jewel’s rocky road to success is one of those stories that always seems heartwarming and inspiring.
“You think of my origin story, right?
Jewel.Duane Prokop/Getty Images
That is an absolute misrepresentation of what happened.”
The problem is, no one would ever listen.
“I was not even thinking I would be a musician.
Jewel wins ‘The Masked Singer’ season 6 as Queen of Hearts.Michael Becker/FOX
“It was an active defiance, it was an act of courage.
It cost me a lot, but it won me myself.
It won me my humanity.
I’m so proud of that decision.
I didn’t even have a dream.
It’s not what I was doing.”
The singer’s experiences with sexism extended beyond her workplace.
She recalled another time when a DJ introduced her with a reference to her chest.
Jewel, how are you?'
I said, ‘You must be the small-penis man I’ve heard so much about from South Carolina.’
Escorted out of the radio station.
Like, that was just life.
That’s what life was like.”
“I was so pissed,” she said.
“He was just a dick.
What an ass to show himself like that.
You’re bitter.”
But theMasked Singerwinner never stopped fighting, making sure her career stood the test of time.
But it meant, again, always putting the art first," Jewel said.
“It meant ‘hard wood grows slowly,’ meaning I wanted to be around for 60 years.
If you grow too quickly, that’s bad for a long-term arc.
There’s no shortcut to building something that hopefully lasts a long time.”
If I could go back in time I’d smack me in the head.
