Rosario Dawson: My Mom Licked Me — That Was Her Punishment



We don't even quite know how to react to this. From T: the Times Magazine:

T: Did your parents encourage you to act?

Rosario: They encouraged me to be serious about the work. My family is a trip — they’re amazing, but they’re a case study unto themselves. My way of rebelling in life is to be conservative in my behavior because my mom is so radical. She’d go to P.T.A. meetings with a huge nose ring and I used to say, ‘Can't you just wear the stud when you come up to school?’

"My mom told me so much about sex at an early age that she scared me: I didn’t have sex until was 20. I got into trouble at school because one of my friends said 'Lesbians do it with straws.' I said, 'I can tell you how lesbians do it, and there are no straws involved!’ But I think all that talk of sex put me off. The first time I had it, I think it was in a head-to-toe rubber. I was terrified of getting pregnant. My mom was planning to get an abortion when she was pregnant with me. She was at the clinic waiting for her appointment and she felt me move in her stomach. I always tell her it was probably gas. I thank God for gas."

T: Was your mother a disciplinarian?

Rosario: My mom licked me — that was her punishment. If I was a little uppity or if I didn’t listen or if she wanted to get my attention, she'd lick the side of my face or under my armpit. My mom’s a six-foot-tall amazon and she'd say, ‘You came out of my vagina and I own every part of you,’ and she’d lick me like I was her wee pup and she was a lioness. It was humiliating and really intense. Very primal. It’s not spanking, but it definitely works."

What the--?!