Trevor Noah knows a thing or two about resilience and strength. It’s a trait he learned from his mother, Patricia Noah, who was shot in the head and survived.
The South African host of ‘The Daily Show’ opens up to Carlos Watson about the hardships he endured on his way to success.
Noah was born to a black mother and a white father in South Africa during apartheid, when interracial relationships were illegal. In the interview, the host of The Daily Show opens up to Watson about his admiration for his fierce mother, who bravely defied the government—and shares how she shaped him into the man he is today.
He also opens up about his mother, Patricia, who escaped death not once, but twice. Watson and Noah discuss the abuse Patricia faced at the hands of her second husband, and her miraculous recovery from a gunshot to the head.
“It’s a really hard story to share but I grew up in a home where my mother remarried after my father so I had a step-father now and he was a man who suffered from his addiction to alcohol and he became very abusive and the abuse culminated in my mother being shot by him… in the head.”
But this fiercest of moms — Noah once told Oprah Winfrey that he was merely his mother’s “punk-ass sidekick” — also faced down a Black racist taxi driver who threatened her and her children. The cabbie threatened Patricia’s life because she had a mixed-race child with her (Noah), and thus had obviously been with a white man. He goes on to explain how Patricia and her boys had to throw themselves out of the moving vehicle to escape harm.
What a phenomenal interview… this incredible South African may be the host of America’s biggest daily comedy show but he is certainly flying our flag high!
Watch the full episode below:
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