Amy Schumer just embarked on her highly-anticipated comedy tour across the U.S., and the comedian opened up to the New Yorker about how it feels to be heading out on the road with a young son at home. Get the tissues ready!
“The thing that weighs on me is being away,” Schumer told the magazine on the morning she was leaving for her first tour stop.
Schumer has been candid in the past about everything from plastic surgery to and her hair-pulling disorder, and her honest account of being a working parent—albeit, a very famous one—will likely resonate with many.
“I’m anticipating how awful it’s going to be saying goodbye to [Gene, 3, her son with husband Chris Fischer], like, the third time I leave to go on the road,” she said. “When you hear them cry and reach for you, you just want to throw up.”
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In the interview, Amy talks about how her young son had fallen asleep on her while she lay on the couch the night before, which made the agony of leaving him that much worse.
“There are a limited number of nights where they’ll want to do this,” she said of her 60-show tour. “I’m going to miss sixty-five nights of putting him to bed. I mean, what is that worth? Am I crazy for doing this? But then it’s, like, I have the opportunity to go and make all this money.”
Amy, who will be traveling to both Massachusetts and Florida this week on the explicitly named tour, doesn’t think it’s healthy for her son to be on the road at this age. “Routine is good for them,” she said. Fischer and Gene will stay at their Brooklyn home for the rest of the tour with planned visits, a dynamic that her husband spoke about in the piece.
“With our life and her career and with Gene, it’s not really a conversation,” chef and restauranteur Fischer explained to the reporter. “She tells us what’s going on, and Gene and I, we’re happy and willing and able, so far, to adapt.”
Thank you for being so candid about the very real struggle for us working parents, Amy!
