Jess Hilarious Gets Raw About Co-Parenting in New Book ‘Til Death Do We Parent | EUR ExclusiveWATCH
*Jess Hilarious has spent over a decade making audiences laugh — but her new book asks them to feel something deeper. In “‘Til Death Do We Parent: Raising My Kid with His Dad,” the Baltimore-born comedian, actress, and media personality pulls back the curtain on one of the most personal chapters of her life: becoming […] The post Jess Hilarious Gets Raw About Co-Parenting in New Book ‘Til Death Do We Parent | EUR ExclusiveWATCH appeared first on EURweb | Black News, Culture, Entertainment & More.
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*Jess Hilarious has spent over a decade making audiences laugh — but her new book asks them to feel something deeper.
In “‘Til Death Do We Parent: Raising My Kid with His Dad,” the Baltimore-born comedian, actress, and media personality pulls back the curtain on one of the most personal chapters of her life: becoming a mother at 20 and learning, through trial and real heartbreak, what it actually means to co-parent with grace.
The book, published by Black Privilege Publishing and arriving just in time for Mother’s Day 2026, draws on Jess’s own journey raising her 14-year-old son Ashton alongside his father, Rome. It includes candid perspectives from both parents — a rarity in co-parenting conversations that tend to center only one side.
Before “Wild ‘N Out,” before “The Breakfast Club,” and before sold-out arenas, there was a 19-year-old Jessica Robin Moore trying to figure out who she was. “My parents weren’t done raising me yet,” she says. “I was still living in their house.” What carried her through, she explains, was the foundation her mother had quietly been laying for years. “She had been training me for womanhood since way before I even started dating Jerome. She didn’t know that she was training me to be a mother, but she was.”
One of the book’s central arguments challenges the long-held belief that parents should stay together for the sake of their children. Jess is direct on the subject. “You should never force a relationship between you and your other co-parent just for the kids,” she says. “You get frustrated when you’re forcing something. You end up miserable when you’re forcing something.” She argues that children absorb far more than adults realize — not just what they witness, but the emotional residue adults carry out of conflict. “The energy that these kids absorb, they regurgitate it right back to us.”
Perhaps the most striking section of the book is one Jess admits she wrestled with including. In the early months after Ashton was born, she was broke, unsupported, and emotionally unraveling. Rome, she says, was out living his life while she was home alone with a newborn. “I took my son home, and I didn’t even want him,” she says plainly. Five or six months in, she had a breakdown — throwing diapers, shoes, clothes — before stopping to look at her baby.
“I look at him and I’m like, why would you choose me as your mother? Like, I don’t know what I’m doing.” What happened next stopped her cold. “He cracked a side smile,” she recalls, “like as if to say, girl, get yourself together, you doing too much.” She calls it the moment she fell in love with her son.
Jess says she was uncertain about putting that story in the book. “I didn’t want to make my son feel a certain way,” she admits. “I never want him to resent me for something that he read that I wrote.” But she stands behind the decision. “I know that moms all over can connect with that moment.”
Comedy, she says, has always been how she processes the harder parts of the journey. Her stand-up draws directly from life with Ashton. “That is my comic relief,” she says. “I choose to laugh and write comedy and that’s what makes everything easier.”
The relationship she and Rome have built over the years is also central to the book. Communication
, she says, was the first wall they had to break down. “Even the uncomfortable conversations, we gotta be willing to have them,” she explains. “It ain’t gonna kill us. It’s gonna make us stronger.” By the time Ashton was around three, she and Rome had become friends — a foundation she credits for the co-parenting dynamic they share today.
Her closing message is aimed at every parent who feels like they’re falling short. Jess has known real hardship — no lights, no running water, stealing candles from the Dollar General. She’s also known the other side. “It doesn’t matter how many TV screens y’all see me on,” she says. “I still don’t get it right every day.” The point, she insists, is that no mother’s path looks the same — and grace is not optional. It’s essential.
“‘Til Death Do We Parent” is on sale April 28. For more information, visit JessHilariousOfficial.com or follow her on Instagram.
Watch our conversation with Jess Hilarious below.
*This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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