During a recent episode of the Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch podcast, Maya Rudolph recalled how she once had a poignant dream about her late mother, Minnie Riperton.
Admitting that she doesn’t believe in the supernatural and is “afraid” of the idea of receiving a message from her late parent who passed away from breast cancer at the age of 31 in 1979, Maya explained seeing her mother in a dream when she was in the cast of Saturday Night Live between 2000 and 2007.
“I feel like someone’s protecting me, they’re like, ‘Stay away from my baby, don’t touch my baby.’ I’m so afraid, so afraid. And at this point, I’m like, ‘Why am I so afraid? What is there to be afraid of?'” “I’ve only had one instance that I’ve thought maybe could be it. I only had one dream when I was living in New York, when I was doing SNL, that I saw my mom at whatever was like the waystation between here and like heaven and it was an Ampm (U.S. convenience store), like a minimart. I can remember when I saw her in a dream. And I feel like once is not enough, like, ‘Let’s go Minnie, I want to see you, I want to talk to you, I want to ask you questions, I want to smell you, hug you,” said the 53-year old actress.
Elsewhere in the chat, Rudolph said that her friend Emily Spivey told her that Minnie has “visited” her over the years, adding:
“Emily and Scott (Philbrook, husband) feel like they’ve been visited by my mother, more or less… Minnie’s spirit is very much alive with my friends, and I’ve always felt an incredibly close connection with Emily Spivey to the point where I feel like we grew up together, but we didn’t. But we feel like a very strong connection, almost like an umbilical sisterly bond.”
Streaming on Apple TV, Maya is currently promoting the third season of comedy Loot.
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