Vanessa Williams Remembers Johnny Carson's Snarky Joke About Her Becoming 1st Black Miss America: 'Wow' (Exclusive) How Vanessa Williams Went from Being 'Canceled' amid Miss America Scandal to ...

"To me it was this validation that it was safe to trust our intuition even when we can't explain it rationally." She still didn't start asking people to call her Vanessa or V. That didn't happen ...