March 26th, 1991. Geraldo Rivera’s namesake talk show hosts the recent academy award nominee as she candidly describes almost dying.
“So I was expected to die as a baby, and was in an incubator for a couple weeks…you do have to deal with some things that the average person doesn’t deal with.”
Ms. Kirkland starts with her own birth and outliving the odds. She goes on to claim that babies born via C-section have more stress in their lives as adults, than those derived from natural birth. Later at ten years old she suffered a head injury and was in a coma for five days. Drug use and tapping in to ‘the other side is discussed, a sceptic gets a question in from the audience.
Sally Kirkland Jr. passed away in 2025.
This day, Geraldo’s television history.