Comedian and ‘Late Night’ host Seth Meyers gushed in a recent interview on โThe Howard Stern Showโ over his wife Alexi Asheโs ability to balance being a mother and delivering a commencement speech.
The human rights lawyer delivered a commencement speech to her high school alma mater, Albuquerque Academy, in New Mexico at the end of May. Though Ashe was originally meant to speak at the podium alone, mom duty called.
Meyers revealed that their 3-year old daughter, Addie, was crying in the audience while recovering from a cold. He added that Addie was in her โmom era,โ where she wanted comfort from Ashe over Meyers. As soon as Ashe saw her daughter, she made a move.
โThe minute she sees Alexi walk in and her cap and gown, sheโs like, reaching for her. And Alexi just says, โJust give her to me,โ Meyers recalls to Stern.
โShe takes my daughter, walks up on stage, sits her in a chair next to her,โ Meyers continued, adding that the 3-year-old immediately calmed down.
โShe just had this incredible balance of like, โIโm a professional woman, and now Iโm gonna speak to my experiences in the world.โ But also, you never can stop being a mom, and so my daughter is gonna sit here,โ Meyers said.
As for the speech itself, Meyers said it made it โone of the coolest daysโ of his life.
โShe was really funny, and she was really moving, and it was smart. And you could tell the kids were hanging on her every word.โ
Meyers shared pictures from the day on Instagram, commending Ashe once again.
“So proud to watch @alexi crush her commencement address while also putting on a motherhood clinic without missing a beat,” Meyers wrote.
“Our daughter was under the weather and not interested in being with anyone but her mom and instead of sending her home she let her join her on stage without ever losing her cool.”
In her speech, Ashe spoke about an experience she had in eighth grade at the academy, where she stood up against a group of bullies and created change for the victims, and its long-term impacts on her professional career as a lawyer.
โThat moment taught me the immense power and necessity of speaking up, and it helped put me on the path that Iโm still on today as a lawyer for victims of human trafficking,โ Ashe said as the crowd roared with an applause.
Ashe ended her speech with a powerful reminder for the graduates to bring to the real world.
โEach of you has the power to be that supportive community for someone else. Never underestimate how much that matters.โ
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