One of the biggest highlights of the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards show on Monday evening (September 12) was when Sheryl Lee Ralph won her first-ever Emmy award for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Ralph took the stage to deliver an emotional, powerful acceptance speech, and country superstars Mickey Guyton and Maren Morris couldn’t help but applaud her.
Guyton and Morris each retweeted a nearly two-minute clip from the Emmy Awards show, shared by Huffington Post front page editor Philip Lewis. Lewis said, “Sheryl Lee Ralph blew the roof off the [Emmys] with this speech!,” and the country hitmakers couldn’t agree more.
“Won’t He do it?!” Guyton wrote in a celebratory retweet. Morris wrote in her own retweet: “Wow. Can we all have this confidence & conviction? Just sheer, powerful joy.”
Ralph stepped onto the stage, beginning with a powerful rendition of “Endangered Species” by Dianne Reeves, earning a standing ovation and huge applause. Then, she said: “To anyone who has ever, ever had a dream and thought your dream wasn't, wouldn't, couldn't come true, I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like. This is what striving looks like. And don't you ever, ever give up on you because if you get a Quinta Brunson in your corner, if you get a husband like mine in your corner, if you get children like mine in your corner, and if you've got friends like everybody who voted for me, cheered for me, loved me... thank you, thank you, thank you!”
Ralph won the award for her role as Barbara Howard in Abbott Elementary, a comedy series created by fellow Emmy Award winner Brunson. The show “follows a group of teachers brought together in one of the worst public schools in the country, simply because they love teaching.”
See Guyton’s and Morris’ retweets — and watch Ralph’s must-see acceptance speech — here:
Morris will be performing at the 2022 iHeartRadio Music Festival this September, and fans can tune in and watch live via an exclusive stream each night on September 23rd and 24th on The CW app and CWTV.com. The CW Network will also broadcast a two-night television special this October. Additionally, the festival will be broadcast live for fans via iHeartRadio stations throughout the country across more than 150 markets, and on the iHeartRadio app. Find available tickets.