Guesting on “The View"in early 2020, Roberts shared her favorite thing about “GMA.”
“No two days have been the same,” she marveled.
This realization, she admitted, led her “to panic a little bit.”
“It’s the jewel assignment,” Roberts toldThe New York Times.
“I look at ‘SportsCenter’ and ‘Wide World’ as the premier sports programs ever.
I like to be able to do both.
How many people can say they hosted ‘Wide World’ and ‘SportsCenter’?”
Going to college on a tennis scholarship,Roberts' ultimate goalwas to one day play at Wimbledon.
“Well you know what?
I did get to Wimbledon.
I didn’t have a tennis racket in my hands, I had an ESPN microphone.
It still was every bit as gratifying.”
“I cried because it was a goal I had set for myself,” she remembered.
She returned a few weeks later, and was eventually declared cancer free.
Roberts once again took a leave of absence from the show, this time to receive a bone-marrow transplant.
Her sister, broadcaster Sally-Ann Roberts, was the donor.
“Good morning, America.”
“I’m a better, stronger, more complete person because of these trials and tribulations.”
In fact, the lesson she took from her dual health scares has been an overwhelmingly positive one.
“I now understand it really well,” she said of those words.
“I don’t want to plan,” she explained.
The question led Roberts to become emotional.
“I didn’t know if I could come back,” she replied, fighting back tears.
Goldberg had already declared herself a fan.
With that casual mention, Roberts wasofficially out of the closet.
“And I asked her,” Roberts revealed.
“I said, ‘I really want to say thank you.'”
Roberts explained, “I’m a huge Barbara Mandrell fan … title says it all.”
Parton, as always, was ready with some one-liners.
She also explained how her high profile in the LGBT community presented some complications.
“I’m a black gay woman, he’s a black gay man,” she explained.
It was a no-win situation for me.”
Speaking withCloser Weekly, Roberts shared the one life lesson she holds as the most important.
“Just don’t compare your despair,” she said.
I don’t think that you should compare because truly everybody’s got something."
That web link is Lifetime, which airs her “Robin Roberts Presents” series of movies.
In January 2020, the first of these movies aired.
As Roberts told the Herald, she covered the actual story extensively on “GMA.”
With those words serving as a constant reminder, Roberts’ moral compass was set.
“That was the Roberts creed.”
She is worth it, and deserves the hefty payday."
“Everybody’s got something,” she said.
“When people go through a trauma, we all instantly have a connection,” she said.
Experiencing her own trauma, added Roberts, led her to discover the depth of her own resilience.
“I don’t feel there’s anything I cannot weather,” she added.
“I have this inner strength I didn’t know existed …
It’s just freeing to feel that way.”
Roberts was reportedly furious when she found out.
When Stephanopoulos found out what Roberts had said, he was allegedly “livid.”
“You spilled water on yourself?”
quipped DeGeneres in response.
“Oh yes, okay, I’ll go with that,” Roberts joked.
No, it was like cleanup on aisle one after I did the big interview."
She also told ET that she wanted to explain what exactly meditation entails.
“it’s possible for you to’t quiet your mind.
That’s not the intent,” she said.
