Niecy Nash-Betts is still basking in the revelry of her Primetime Emmy Awards win with an extravagant delivery from Oprah Winfrey.
On Monday, the award-winning actress, 53, shared an Instagram video of a massive bouquet of roses that Winfrey, 70, sent her in honor of her Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie win. The bouquet, which features a bevy of pink roses and several bottles of champagne, was so big that it had to be carried into Nash-Betts’ home by four deliverymen.
Nash-Betts explains that she’s been away from home filming season 3 of Don’t Forget the Lyrics and was unable to celebrate her victory, so the delivery was a huge surprise to her. She reveals the card sent along with the bouquet, which reads, “Epic speech. Epic you. I wanna thank YOURSELF too!”
“THANK YOU @oprah 💋💋💋💋💋,” the musical memory competition show host captioned her post. “Never have I ever seen anything this beautiful‼️”
In the post’s comments, several of Nash-Betts’ famous friends marveled at the sheer size of the bouquet and congratulated her on her well-deserved win.
“Holy crap! Amazing!” actress and comedian Phoebe Robinson wrote.
“Baby, ain’t nothing like a gift from OPRAH. Enjoy my friend. You deserve it,” photographer Erick Robinson replied.
Quinta Brunson, who also received a similar batch of flowers from Winfrey for her historic Emmy win, commented with two hands raised emojis, cheering on the video’s content.
During the 75th Emmy Awards on Jan. 16, Nash-Betts delivered one of the night’s most memorable acceptance speecheswhere she thanked a slew of her loved ones, including herself, while accepting her first Primetime Emmy for her role as Glenda Cleveland in Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffery Dahmer Story.
She had previously been nominated three times, and when she finally scored the gold statuette, Nash-Betts capitalized on the moment with a heartfelt and emotional speech that included a shout-out to her mom, Margaret Ensley.
“I’m a winner, baby!” she exclaimed from the stage. “Thank you to the most high for this divine moment. Thank you, Ryan Murphy, for seeing me. Evan Peters, I love you. Netflix. Every single person who voted for me. Thank you, my better half, who picked me up when I was gutted from this work, thank you.”
“I want to thank me,” she said as the crowd roared in applause. “For believing in me and doing what they said I could not do. And I want to say to myself in front of all you beautiful people — go on, girl, with your bad self! You did that.”
After striking a pose, Nash-Betts then dedicated her first Primetime Emmy to “every Black and brown woman who have gone unheard, yet overpoliced, like Glenda Cleveland, like Sandra Bland, like Breonna Taylor.”
She added, “I’m going to do it until the day I die.”
Nash-Betts spoke to 360aprokoafter her big winand she shared why she thanked herself.
“Yeah because you know, a lot of times people don’t,” she said. “And that’s why it’s not called mama-esteem and us-esteem and them-esteem, it’s called self-esteem ’cause don’t nobody got to believe it but you. And I believed in myself, and it was like, ‘This is not your lane,’ and I’m like. ‘Oh yes it is, you won’t tell me — I tell you.'”
“I feel so affirmed, by my peer group because I feel fully seen in the moment,” she added.
