Amy Schumer makes the RARE move of posing with her mother Sandra at a NYC luncheon… years after she ‘forgave’ her for ‘destructive’ behavior

Amy Schumer made the rare move of posing with her mother Sandra Schumer.

The two appeared at Variety’s 2024 Power of Women luncheon in New York City on Thursday.

The actress, 42, wore a beautiful lavender dress that hugged her body and made her look slim. Her hair was pulled back as she wore purple-colored makeup to match her dress.

She was seen sitting next to her mother, who was dressed in all black and had her blonde hair down.

In 2022, Amy said she had a complicated relationship with her mother, which was hinted at during season one of Life & Beth.

While on the Making space with the Hoda Kotb podcast, she explained: ‘I certainly forgave her. And she’s a great-grandmother. We have a beautiful relationship, and [Life & Beth] is a lot about forgiveness and dealing with your old traumas. I think it’s just better for you, physically, mentally, all of it.”

Schumer explained what her mother had done.

“Well, she and my dad got divorced when I was 12 or 13,” she recalls. “They both started dating, and I think some of her behavior around that time was quite destructive to my sister and me.”

But she has empathy now.

“Now that I’m a mother, I can only imagine what it was like for her,” she told Hoda. “She was, you know, single mother, three kids, we had no money.

‘She is a speech therapist for the deaf. She has a second and third job. She’s just trying to keep it moving. And I really can’t judge her decisions because I don’t know what it’s like to go through that. So I found a real level of forgiveness and empathy with her.”

She gave an emotional speech at the Variety event.

She moved the audience as she talked about gun safety and the progress women have made while being honored at the star-studded celebrations.

Schumer received the Variety Power of Women Award, an honor presented to her by Sascha Seinfeld, the daughter of Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld and a staff writer on her show Life & Beth.

“I’m here representing Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action,” she began Variety.

Amy added, “If you really want to help, everytown.org is a great place to start. Ten years ago, Mayci Breaux and Jillian Johnson, two girls, went to see my movie Trainwreck and they were shot in the theater, and that’s what brought me to this work.

“What I’ve learned in my years at Everytown is that the gun lobby’s strategy is hopelessness and keeps us complacent and misleads us into believing that gun laws don’t make a difference. But instead, we need every person to use his or her voice. And you won’t believe this, but the most effective people have been mothers.

“And we need to vote out those who don’t, you know, who change gun laws,” she said.

“We’re the lucky ones in this tent… if you’re in this room, you already know that women are the strongest, smartest, most capable people around.”

“Some would even say… that women make good leaders… and that we have the wisdom of so many women before us,” she said.

Despite the inequalities women still face, Schumer said that “there is no doubt we are making progress.”

She told the story of a production assistant who was sexually harassed in the workplace, but did not remain silent about the behavior.

A crew member working on a project Schumer was working on was “sexually harassed by an actor on set,” the actress recalled.

“And we’ve all been there. We’ve all experienced it. And we felt ashamed and probably blamed ourselves, maybe we let this tear us apart,” she said.

Instead, Amy said the production assistant “said something right away.”

“She told the right people and did what she needed to do to feel safe and heal,” she said.

“And I called her to apologize and thank her for speaking out for the women who would come after her and whom she had saved. This isn’t perfect, but this is progress. And many of you here today, your work will help guide these women so that when the time comes, they’ll say, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry, but I’m not looking up, you son of a bitch.'”

For her moment in the spotlight, Amy dazzled in a lilac ruffled dress with a thigh-high slit and her hair beautifully combed back.