I’m too ashamed,’ but we just said, ‘Let’s keep it all in.’ I’m not proud of every moment in the doc by far, but if we’re gonna really do this, we’re gonna really do it...
“For some people, I hope it’s just interesting to see a documentation of a comedian forming a special and how I form my jokes.
And then for some people, it’s like an inside look into somebody being diagnosed with autism or a difficult pregnancy,†says Schumer, who revealed in 2019 that her husband had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
“I also think it just shows how strong women are and what we go through, like the pain and the discomfort and the shame that we’re supposed to feel about physical things we go through that we can’t help.
In a new campaign for Tampax, Schumer went out and asked people where they first learned about the menstrual cycle.
It’s the first in a series of videos meant to educate people about periods, to get them talking about something perfectly normal that somehow makes some squirm.
She would really complain about it, and she wasn’t ashamed, and so I wasn’t ashamed,†says Schumer, who suffers from endometriosis.
“I remember watching 90210 with my mom and asking if people could have sex with their clothes on,†Schumer says, “and she turned off the TV and turned to me and told me all about everything.