Keke Palmer and Tierra Whack bonded over a secret pregnancy
Emmy-winning actress and best-selling author Keke Palmer was front stage at The Fitler Club.
Keke Palmer met Tierra Whack over a game of spades at Jackie Chan’s house in South Philly.
Trust me, the story gets even better.
They started arguing with Rihanna when Eddie Murphy showed up to diffuse the situation.
And if all this sounds too good to be true, that’s because, well, it is.
“All right, we play too much,” Palmer joked to the Fitler Club crowd. The newly published author stopped by on Thursday for an event presented by Harriett’s Bookshop and sponsored by the Fitler Club and the Inquirer. Whack interviewed Palmer about her new book, Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative.
The actress, singer, and KeyTV founder met Whack at Alicia Keys’ house back in 2023, bundled up in a puffer coat which she took off to reveal a baby bump. She was months away from giving birth to her son Leodis “Leo” Jackson.
Whack kept her lips sealed on the secret pregnancy, and the two multi-hyphenates built a special bond over the past two years. “I love you girl,” Palmer said as she walked over to hug the North Philly native. “I love you, too,” Whack said.
“I’m here, no payment or nothing,” Whack said to the crowd in the Fitler Club ballroom. “This is my girl.”
The two women discussed Palmer’s memoir which delves into her days as a child actor, and the lessons she’s learned on her journey to becoming an Emmy-winning entertainer, entrepreneur, and new mom.
“Kids bring perspective,” she said. “I have to make sure this baby is good, and then I have the rest of the day. It’s helping me understand what’s really important.”
Palmer and Whack spoke of their love-hate relationship with musicals and their fondness for 90s and early 2000s sitcoms like The Jamie Foxx Show and The Parkers. And like the rest of us, Palmer can’t get enough of the Apple TV+ thriller Severance. “It’s so good, I had to go back and watch season one,” she said.
By the end of the evning, Whack had seemingly found a name for her next project.Whack of All Trades.
“If that’s the next album, I need a feature,” Palmer said.