Kyla Pratt tackles mental illness within the African-American community in the new TV One original movie ‘The Secret She Kept.’ 

ReShonda Tate Billingsley is the brains behind the novel of the same name and joins Alton Glass and Rhonda F. Baraka to bring the dark tale to life on Sunday June 10th.

Press play to watch its trailer below…

Billingsley shares:

So often, we trivialize that someone is just ‘crazy’ and we don’t recognize that mental illness is real and relevant. I wanted to show not only was this something that deserved our attention, but that we shouldn’t be ashamed to seek help. If our bodies are sick, we get help. I wanted to de-stigmatize the shame that often keeps us from seeking treatment when our minds are sick.I am grateful The Secret She Kept has been turned into a movie. While the book did exceptionally well, the platform TV One provides will hopefully get more people talking about what so many people see as a dirty little secret.

Catch ‘Secret’ when it airs July 10th at 7 p.m on TV One.

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