Sherri Shepherd Says Jail Was Her 'Classroom' Where She Really Learned

Sherri Shepherd knows where she truly learned about life.

The 55-year-old TV personality said that serving time in prison taught her “life lessons” and connected her with one very important person.

“Yeah, I went to jail for not paying my tickets. At the time I did not think being in jail was a good moment, but looking back I learned to pay all my bills,” Sherri said.

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“Jail, that was a classroom… it was a life lesson, and now I pay my bills on time,” Sherri told Page Six.

While in prison, Sherri met someone who helped her see something in her that she didn’t quite yet see herself.

“One of the girls in jail said, ‘Leave Sherri alone because she’s gonna be somebody and we are going to be here for the rest of our lives,’ literally that’s what she used to say,” Sherri said.

“Her name was Shelby and she came to both my weddings when I got out,” she continued. “But sometimes people see things in you that you don’t see yourself, and when she said those words, ‘Sherri is gonna be somebody,’ I never thought that for myself. So I just knew that something was going to happen.”

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