Michelle Williams gave an impassioned speech about a woman’s right to choose and the importance of voting upon winning an award at the 2020 Golden Globes.
The 39-year-old actress, who won for her role in the limited series “Fosse/Verdon,” began her speech by recognizing that “as women and as girls things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice…”
Williams — who has a 14-year-old daughter, Matilda, from her relationship with the late Heath Ledger — is expecting her first child with fiancé Thomas Kail, and the couple attended Sunday night’s awards show as their first public appearance together. During her speech, Williams alluded to her pregnancy.
“I wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose, to choose when to have my children and with whom,” Williams said. “When I felt supported … I know my choices might look different from yours but thank God or to whoever you pray to …”
She also addressed her fiancé and daughter by saying: “Tommy and Matilda, I can’t wait to come home to you.”
She concluded her speech by calling for women to get political.
“Women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest,” she said. “It’s what men have been doing for years.”
For behind-the-scenes details on the Golden Globes, listen to this episode of Page Six’s podcast, “We Hear“: