Tyler Perry speaks about how his copes with the loss of his mother Maxine in an emotional conversation with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on this week’s episode of the “All There Is” podcast.

Tyler Perry shared that he is still grieving his mother Maxine Perry's death in 2009 during his speech at the Critics Choice Awards' Seventh Annual Celebration of Black Cinema and Television on Dec. 9,

Actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry shares with Anderson Cooper how he’s avoided his grief by pouring himself into work, and how he is now facing the trauma of his past and the pain of his mother’s absence.