Montel Williams
Montel Williams
Montel Brian Anthony Williamsis an African American television personality, radio talk show host, and actor. He is best known as host of the long-running The Montel Williams Show, and more recently as a spokesman for the Partnership for Prescription Assistance, Williams is also active with the nonprofit MS Foundation, which he founded after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999. Williams is also noted for his service in both the Marine Corps and the Navy, from which he was honorably...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth3 July 1956
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A beautiful thought for me is cutting the umbilical cord for my child. I can guarantee you that your emotional state will change.
The DEA raided the farm where we were able to get marijuana and they took it away. Everyone in the collaborative... WAMM... worked together to try to get the right blend of marijuana, but we were never able to reproduce it. So, unfortunately, Jeffrey's been in a residential facility for over a year now.
If everyone who graduated from high school was required to do some form public service, you would have enough people in the military.
I can take one to two tablets every four hours. It takes me 20 of these a days to knock down my pain. I can read in the PDR all the adverse effects of this drug. I'm not talking about drugs for other people. I'm talking about that woman is dying, I can barely walk. Why can't the federal government expand this program to include people like myself so that I don't have to worry about getting locked up?
I did 22 years in the military. I went through Paris Island. I'm a Marine. I will never not be one.
I carry my own food with me everywhere I go.
I don't believe in diets, and no one should.
The evening news was the first reality TV show, I would even say, and this is something people need to look at when they digest television.
I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world.
If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants.
The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.
If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.
Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.
"They've been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody's come up with a cure,"he says. "If you want to test on somebody, test on me."