Nancy Grace on the nature of the ‘true crime’ genre and how she became involved in this field | Variety & Rolling Stone Truth Seekers Summit
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00:00I don't see true crime as a genre.
00:05Maybe everybody else sees it as a genre.
00:09But this doesn't sound right either.
00:13I got into crime.
00:15I became a crime victim a long, long time ago
00:18when my fiance was murdered shortly before our wedding.
00:21And I was studying to be a Shakespearean English professor
00:26at college level, I hoped.
00:29And I dropped out of school.
00:31I couldn't eat.
00:32I couldn't think.
00:35It's hard for me to even actually describe what that was like.
00:41I didn't become a professor.
00:44I went back to school, ultimately, to go to law school.
00:48I had one recommendation.
00:51So don't say it can't be done.
00:53I grew up on a red dirt road,
00:55and my one recommendation to law school,
00:58not a senator, not a congressperson,
01:01is my Sunday school teacher.
01:04That was it.
01:05I don't know how I got in.
01:06I got in, though.
01:08So the genre is for crime victims or for people in there fighting.
01:16It's not a genre.
01:17It's real.
01:18These are real people that are going through real trauma.
01:23Yes, thank you.
01:25Yeah.