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Retta: Tweet Yo' Self

Retta reflects on trading her career in chemistry for comedy, her "crazy" audition for Parks And Recreation, and what she loves about portraying a fully-realized character on Good Girls.
Host Ophira Eisenberg and Retta on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

A quick Instagram search for the hashtag yields more than 4.7 million photos of desserts, spa treatments and shopping sprees. This indulgent catchphrase was made popular eight years ago by the character Donna Meagle, on the NBC comedy — played by the mononymous actor, Retta. But long before she became synonymous with "Treat Yo' Self," Retta was living a very different lifestyle. "I was ," she told Ophira Eisenberg, host of NPR's at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

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