Alexandra Pelosi announced her film "Pelosi in the House" based on her mother, Nancy Pelosi, out Tuesday on HBO Max.
Nancy Pelosi's daughter, Alexandra, told Anderson Cooper and expressed the aftermath of the Jan 6th attack on Capitol Hill when her mother was there.
Alexandra Pelosi said that 35 years ago, her mother asked her if she could run for office and that she gave her blessing. After the attack on her father, she looks back on it differently.
"She says, 'Mommy has a chance to run for Congress, but I won't do it unless I have your permission.' And I said, 'Mother get a life.' All right? What teenage girl doesn't want their mom out of the house? Go, right? So, there we are on the ICU and I say to her, 'if I had known 35 years later where this was going to end up, I never would have given you my blessing to run in the first place.'"
She added: "Now my father, coming out of all that he's been through, says to me, 'You can't say that. You have to say if you came to me today in this toxic social media environment, you would not give your permission. But you can't say the last 35 years of your life, I'm going to erase that because of this one incident.' So that's what we're wrestling with."
After the brutal hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband and Alexandra's father, Paul Pelosi, the family decided they are "done" and Nancy decided to step down from the House Democratic Leadership.
"Was this all worth it? For my family? What we went through? Was it worth it?" she told Anderson and Lemon. "Now, my parents would say yes, my father, after all he's been through, he would say yes. And my mother, of course, she would say, 'I'm proud of my wounds.' Because she's proud of the life that she's lived. But for the family, the families are the ones that pay the highest price for this kind of life."
-CNN
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