Cyndi Lauper: ‘It's the most shocking election we've ever had'
The pop legend is sick and tired of playing politics
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Nicholas Fonseca
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Seven years ago, Cyndi Lauper worked with US presidential candidate Donald Trump as a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice.
Three years later, she released her best-selling, critically acclaimed memoir, in which she revealed she had been sexually abused in her youth.
So: exactly what does the politically minded singer and Tony-winning writer behind the hit musical Kinky Boots think of the upcoming US election?
“It’s the most shocking we’ve ever had,” Lauper tells WHO during a recent visit to Melbourne to kick off the Australian tour of Kinky Boots. “I think the season is way too long.
yndi Lauper attends the Kinky Boots after party on opening night in London
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"And I think that you should have to qualify to be the president. You can’t just, you know, have money. You have to have a plan and an education.”
Lauper sums up this year’s race with one succinct word: “Awful. But I don’t want to spend time talking about that.
"I’d rather talk about Kinky Boots. Because that makes people happy. And it makes me happy!” She laughs. “And then, I will feel better.”
For more of our interview with Cyndi Lauper, pick up the new issue of WHO at newsagents now.