Gavin Newsom: “She came from no wealth and she just hustled grit, hard…”

“I played into that type, so I recognized my own complicity. But look, my mom was 19 when she was pregnant with me. My dad left a few years later. She was on her own. She came from no wealth and she just hustled grit, hard work. And if there was a week I spent a year every few years with the Getty family, it was the rest of my life with my mom having not just …” (09:12–09:16)

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