Shameless US | Fiona's Speech to Monica

"You are my mother too!!" Fucking perfect.

the fact frank sat down so quickly, really does show how heavily fiona has kept this family together. kinda wholesome in a weird way

it is INSANE Emmy Rossum didn't get nominated for an Emmy for her time on Shameless. Not even once.

i love that fiona supports all her siblings, regardless of their interests. even Carl's destructive tendencies, she finds good things in.

Sometimes parents leave, sometimes they stay, but a bad parent is a bad parent whether they leave or stay. And honestly sometimes when they leave, they are actually doing you a favor.

I love the silence that falls after "You were my mother too!" and all you hear is Liam's babble and whine, it almost felt like it added to Fioana's hurt cause that's her baby really and she was just a baby herself.

Fiona is one of the best and deepest characters in the show because of how well Emmy Rossum portrayed her.

Fiona listed off all of the kids accomplishments and didnt say anything about her own, because raising them was her only accomplishment. She didnt live for herself, but for them and when she tried to do things for herself, there was never a moment where anyone let her without making her out to be a bad person for it. They expected everything from her to the point where she couldnt expect anything for herself aoutside of them

Every one talking about fionas line but did u hear Monicas line talking to debbie and carl. “Im so sorry IF i hurt you.” No, you DID hurt them and that small difference is how i know she was full of shit the entire time. If you really wanna help, change, improve your relationships, you take responsibility

This scene is not just about how Fiona sacrificed a lot to raise her siblings. It Fiona's way of telling Monica that she didn’t feel like she was able to explore her own goals and dreams because she had to step in and be the adult when she was supposed to live. This is not just Fiona defending her family this is her showing how much resentment she has twords her mother and the hurt of always being the one falling on the sword to protect others including her own mother.

The way Frank IMMEDIATELY sits back down, aware of her suffering and never having done anything to relieve it. The way the kids don't really look Monica in the eye. The way they shrink away from their sister's praise and pride, not sure if they can accept it--if it's allowed with their parents around. The way that Carl and Debbie look at each other and speak in the silent language that siblings and close friends develop, and ultimatley come to an agreement to soothe their mother because they still love her, not because they forgive her--and the way that they both jerk away from her the moment that Fiona leaves, obviously upset with themselves for hurting their sister. This scene is immaculate.

"You were my mother too!" The way she teared up right after saying that wasn't adult Fiona...that was the little girl her parents abandoned making an appearance and saying what she needed to say at long last!

The fact that after Fiona said that her mom just said, “Maybe I will never make things right with you.” As if she had already given up on mending their relationship. It made me so mad for Fiona and I haven’t even watched the show. The mom didn’t even try to comfort her and proceeded to go to the younger kids. What a terrible parent!

The fact that Emmay rossum was being paid LESS than William Macy is shocking . She RAN the show and this proved it. Amazing

"Maybe I'll never be able to make things right with you, but there's still time with Liam." In other words, "I'm a terrible mother and you've suffered multiple traumas at my hands, but Liam is so young, I can take him back and pretend I was always a great mother. But to hell with the rest of you who are older, you all know way too much."

Y'all are talking about how she didn't apologize to Fiona and went straight to Debbie and Carl, but she didn't even register the older boys. That's what pisses me off. You can see Ian's hurt as he pretends to be mad in the background. And Lip. Lip didn't even expect anything else. He's given up. And that makes me so so hurt and so angry for both of them.

I’m a 33 year old man this scene gets to me deeply every time I’ve seen this episode. Even though it’s coming from Fiona as a daughters stand point but I felt this in my soul. I’m the oldest of 7 kids the youngest being 18 years old today. I was 14 years old watching over 6 of my siblings. We all didn’t turn out perfect but we all made it. My greatest achievement was watching all 6 graduate high school and the youngest with honors and is on his way to college.

“they did it all” she respected them bc she knew she might’ve raised them but they did it themselves and achieved what they wanted themselves to

This is super peripheral to the point but I absolutely love that Frank sits down when Fiona tells him "Shut up frank, this isn't about you." He's definitely afraid of his own daughter, as he should be.

To all the Fiona’s out there whose taking care of their siblings, I’m proud of you.

Why did emmy never get the recognition she deserved for this show…. She carried it in the acting department for YEARS… I see why she left the series after all that drama with the pay raises. It seems like no one behind the scenes understood her worth and how good she is

When she says "You were my mother too" you can tell, inside, she is still the little girl whose mom abandoned her. No matter how hard she tries to hold it together for the others, her pain hasn't eased.

“All kids deserve parents, but not all parents deserve kids” -Someone wise

Fiona was the backbone of this family, I always come back to this speech and her speaking to Frank about Monica… she did the best she could and was forced to grow up too fast too soon. Her character deserved so much more than what they gave her… and the actress did an Oscar worthy performance

one of the best confrontation scenes ever from a US TV Series. Emmy Rossum's acting here is phenomenal, made me cry all the time especially that "You were my mother too" part, she literally took over the part of being the mother of that household, and to add her father was a drunkard too to cope with sadness, and she dealt with that too as a young girl. what a cruel mother

This is why Fiona is my favorite character, she takes care of her siblings more than either of their parents ever did...this show seriously reminds me of my family it hits close to home every time

Fiona’s acting is insane in this scene..

The look on Monica's face when Fiona says "you were MY mother too!" makes me so mad, that look like "you're the oldest, it's your job to look after your siblings" look after, not raise. Not everyone is meant to be a parent, Monica and Frank are fantastic examples of that.

I love that when Fiona says the line "You are my mother too!" its very hard to discern whether she states "you are..." or "you were..." and I think that's just amazing! Its either Fiona recognizing that Monica is not her mother anymore or Fiona emphasizing that she is not meant to be in this role since Monica is also her mother love this scene so much

The saddest thing I always noticed when I first watched the series was how it shows Debbie and Carl slowly start not believing their parents anymore. When they were little they were so inclined to forgive and have their mommy again, but as they grow older they start to realize the truth of how unreliable she really is.

It says so much when the little kids pull away from their “mom” at the end. It’s like instinctively, they know that she’s not to be trusted. That Fiona is the one who has really been there.

the way that Fiona and her mom look at each other after Fiona said "you were my mother too" is so familiar to me , I've looked at my mother the same way. such a great display of emotions on her face

"You're my mother too!" Damn I feel the pain of the little girl inside of her begging to be loved by her mom. Mothers & their 1st born daughter's are a lesson in honoring & loving with no rules or expectations.

"you were my mother too!" I think some forget Fionna raised her siblings by herself. She needed someone to help her with her emotions, her period, growing up, feeling loved. She needed a mother. But she was abandoned before any of them.

Monica is proof that love isn't enough when it comes to family and parenting

i always felt like monica loved ian the most. when fiona says "ian was promoted in rotc" and monica sobbed/her face change, showed me that it moved her the most hearing about ian. idk i always just got those vibes!

How did Emmy not get an Emmy for this? It’s literally in her name.

This show deserved more Emmys than it got. Joan Cusack and William Macy have both won Emmys from the show but all the other actors deserve it too especially Emmy Rossum!

Fiona is the goat. None of her siblings could even comprehend what she sacrificed and went through for them. Emmy deserves aaalll the recognition especially for this scene. Makes me cry every time.

“SHUT UP FRANK” *sits his ass down quietly*

This is one of the rare British shows that America got right and actually made it a millions times better in many ways.

Fiona: "THIS ISNT ABOUT YOU FRANK" Frank: *sits down*

Frank loved Monica in spite of her many flaws and would defend her to the death. But the fact he sat down when Fiona told him to shut up shows the respect he has for her and that he actually knows she's right too.

"This is about what you didn't do. This is about what I did." Deep. Fiona sacrificed her childhood for her sibilings.

Best scene out of the entire series, the second best is when Fiona yelled at that trust fund baby girl who gave her laundry mat a bad review. Emmy MADE this show.

The first four seasons were elite rly miss the depth this show had but still thankful there were many episodes after for us to watch this family grow

I haven't seen this show but this is fantastic dialogue writing. Fiona doesn't just praise her siblings, she reveals raising her siblings was her only accomplishment. It's why she said "I did a great job" and proceeded to express that. Her mother is very detached from her kids lives given she tells Fiona "I appreciate that, but I'm here now" as if Fiona was a paid nanny all these years and not her daughter. "You were my mother too" isn't just about expressing heartbreak. Fiona is giving her mom a chance here to be her mother now. She's telling her she needed her and even as a capable adult she'd still want her mom in her life, but her mom is too selfish to get there. She is unwilling to face hardships she caused with her own actions and choices by being there for her older children. This is shown when she approaches her youngest children. We see her two older boys in frame suddenly realize their mom didn't come for them. She didn't come back to be a mom. She came back to soothe her wounds. Having lived with addicts in my life, I imagine the mother is a "recovered" addict of some kind. I wager she relapsed sometime after this scene. She's not taking accountability so she hasn't fully recovered. Something important about addicts is you have to give the people in your life the chance to reject you. Not only for their sake but for your own. You have to own up to what you did but sometimes the relationship is over. That's okay. You can still grow and take your journey without them. You can still become a better person even if your old relationships are over. You have to be the one to ground yourself and hold yourself accountable, not put that on other people. There's a huge difference between shame and guilt. Shame is "I am wrong" and you can't live with shame. It breeds insecurities and causes you to harbor resentment toward yourself, make you feel less than, can lead to things like depression. It can cause narcissistic behavior bc narcissism is rooted in insecurity. You put on a performance to compensate for how you feel inside and it hurts those around you and yourself. Shame is an absence of inner peace and you become inconsolable until you can reconcile the shame within yourself. Shame is still rooted in ideology of pride. Just like hate is not the opposite of love, rather apathy is the opposite of love, shame and pride both boil down to selfishness and entitlement. Both are rooted in ideas of "I can never be better than this, this is how I am and people will have to deal with it or they dont love me enough, there's nothing I can do, I have no other choices" and whether or not you pretend to have confidence or ego with it, they are still both thoughts that apply to shame and pride. It's about you first, you at the center of everything, and everyone has to get on board or get out of the way. The above is addict psychology. Substance abuse is a symptom of being an addict, but you don't have to be a substance abuser to have addict personality traits. The best way to neutralize pride and shame is to be humble and grateful. Learn to appreciate what you have, understand you can't choose your feelings but you can choose your response to them, learn to take accountability for the result of your choices and own up to things even if they are an accident, and understand that no one can ever expect you to be perfect so you are allowed to be messy just also allow yourself to own up to being messy when you do make mistakes. That's how you grow and foster healthy relationships. This is not the same as having guilt. You can live with guilt and you should. Guilt is "I did something wrong" and that's okay. It acknowledges your role in the outcome of something and that in itself is empowering. You now know how to do things better and can make better choices and share that with others. You have control over how much of a victim you feel like now. Guilt that becomes consuming targets your identity and becomes shame, it's no longer about an action or choice but about who you are as a person and delves into hopelessness. But you're not hopeless. It's okay to have messed up and even messed up beyond repair. You have to understand sometimes apologies aren't enough and you cant fix everything. That's okay. In this scene, Fiona wants her mother to acknowledge what she did and didn't do. She's actually giving her mother a chance to learn to live with her guilt. Because guilt can be soothed but it never goes away completely. Trying to bury it turns into shame, turns into something we feel we have to hide from others lest we be seen as lesser than. But we all make bad choices. It's okay to own them and we should. It wont make things go back to how they were with Fiona and her mom, but this can give them a chance to move forward, to heal, and to decide if they want to navigate a new relationship with each other. Instead, her mother chooses shame by refusing to admit she was wrong and refusing to acknowledge the pain she inflicted on Fiona specifically. That's why Fiona walks out. I get the impression Fiona is an addict as well by how she turns her siblings against her mother at the end there. Cycles are hard to break, but that choice will ultimately be Fiona's as well to be better than how her mom raised her or rather didn't raise her to be.

this show always surprised me about the acting of the people not talking, the camera goes to them and wwithout words and barely any movement you feel the tension, pain, misery everything... magnificent

My favourite part about this will always be how Frank’s face fell & he sat down so obediently after Fi told him to “shut up, Frank!” 🫶🏻

SHUT UP FRANK she made us feel the strength behind those words and every other word she said in this scene

I've never wanted to give a TV character a hug more than when Fiona says "You were my mother too." I feel ya. I know what that hurt feels like.

"you were my mother too" When she breaks she reverts back to a child. I just wanna hug and tell her everything is ok

this made me cry, cause i felt her. You can see the expression on ian and lip's faces that they don't really want to stay with their mother

God the way she curls up after “you were my mom too”…god she really still is just a child at heart

She was amazing as Fiona. Such unbelievable passion in this scene

As the oldest sibling that basically had to help raise my brother and sister this hits pretty close to home.

Debbie and Carl seemed like very grown up kids, especially in this season. The family ran as a unit and they all played their part. Trauma, and the environment they grew up in had a big reason to do with why they where ahead of kids their age, why they seemed so much older. But in this episode, in this scene… they are just sad sacred little kids. Confused, and hurt. 🥺

"And Carl made something blow up for his science fair". Gets me every time...🤣😂

this scene was made so well great actors for sure.... you can feel the memories that it realy holds and touching in the heart for some of us who grew up in the same atmosphere with those kinds of parents

Fiona raised 5 goddamn kids and busted her ass providing for them while also dealing with her own personal life and putting out fires within her own family, AND giving them advice and supporting them when they all were going thru their own personal stuff. Fiona is a damn hero as far as I'm concerned. Even though its a show, there's people out there doing the same thing with bad circumstances, and they're doing their best, and then some, to make ends meet, and taking care of loved ones. And they're all heros.

After this scene I vividly remember turning the tv off and going to bed. I never recovered from Fiona’s face once she said, “you were my mother too!” 💔

look how sweet Debbie was.... I miss that Debbie.

The fact that Monica is happy at the end but you can tell everyone else is heart broken.

Oh my god her acting is insane

Proably one of the best episodes of the series ... their was good ones but this was more about the family trying to be a family and towards the end it wasn't And you saw that fiona that took care of her siblings and was fed up ... great scene

I feel this. My mom and dad who I haven’t seen for 18 years of my life showed up to my doorstep one time because they wanted to make amends for abandoning my siblings and I on the streets at the age of 10. They thought they can just come back after everything they did to us. Well they are dead wrong. I did a better job then they ever did at taking care of my family.

Emmy is such a babe, even when she tries to look terrible she still looks good

Parents like this exist, I had one. My mom was obsessed with finding the right man, ended up having 6 kids by 5 different men and all of us were left with her abusive mother to raise, because it worked out so well the first time right? If only she loved herself more maybe she wouldn’t have had a major heart attack and died on the floor at 46.

Fiona humbled frank so hard

They did her dirty in the final season

the fact that the mother didn't even tried to atleast caress fiona's hair or give her a warm hug or calm her down by saying that she love her....I just find her mother so selfish....no matter how old the kids are or they are already teenagers taking care of everything especially fiona.....every one needs love specially from the parents side...❤

The audacity of Monica to start crying makes my blood BOILLLLLLL.

It's one thing to apologize and change as a person, but that doesnt mean people have to forgive you just because your related and that doesnt mean you have the right to do what she did. Unfortunately a lot of parents are too afraid to face that fact and they'll try to force kids to love them or put up with them out of selfishness of not being able to let go, and in most cases they arent changed and will end up still traumatizing the remainder of their childhood.

I just finished the last Shameless episode some minutes ago and I believe this is the saddest moment in the whole show. I had to revisit it for the nostalgia but also because it just sums up the complete feeling of misery a broken family can do to people and how the show can be a bit of a lesson on life. Absolutely stellar performance from everyone. I loved seeing everyone grow up in the show. It has its things but this is my favorite show I've ever seen.

Fiona was that family's true mother.

this show is the best show I've ever seen. every single thing about it. the cast is perfect. the plot is perfect. the characters are perfect. its just so incredible

I love the immediate "yeah good call" from Frank when Fiona tells him to shut up. lmfao

"And Carl made something BLOW UP for his science fair!!!" Ahahahahaha😂😂😂

She CARRIED this show !!!!!

The way monica was trying to make herself look better by causing even more damage. Telling the younger ones she wanted to be their mom even though she knew damn well, she wasn't going to be, likewise with her just repeating Frank's words of "I'm here now" even though her whole/only point of being there was taking liam and leaving the rest of them. (Also honorable mention but I like that fiona gave most of the credit to everyone's accomplishments to them and not herself)

Emmy is a phenomenal actress. That scene came from somewhere deep.

As the oldest this is REAL, Monica was her mother too

Fiona Is The Head of that Family has always Been

In Debbie’s face you could tell she was devastated when Fiona left.

Liam is so cute.. he’s saying “I DONT I DONT KNOW”🥺

Damn the writing for the first couple seasons were the best.

The way Debbie and Carl pulled away when Fiona left is very telling! They only trusted Monica when Fiona was there to protect them xxx

"You were my mother too" 😢😢😢😢 Fiona QUEEN ❤❤❤

Fiona sat Frank’s ass DOWN 😭😭😭😭

0:49 You can tell Ian is her favorite, since day 1

God this hits so close to home with me and this scene made me cry 🥺

Monica had no right to even show up… Debbie and Carl’s reactions were perfect and Fiona’s acting was incredible

THAT RIGHT THERE IS SOME ACTING BOYS AND GIRLS...PROPS TO EMMY ROSSUM

early shameless was just immaculate

this is relatable and i hate that but not at the same time

This scene is everything. It’s heartbreaking and empowering the way she stands up for those kids when the parents were MIA This is what true deep to the core pain looks and she lets us feel that sting.

I was expecting the “SHE WAS NEVER FCKNG HERE!! I was NINE. I was in fourth grade, dragging your ahh passed out in from the yard so you wouldn’t freeze to death” etc.. part

And when Fiona left she said “I did it all Frank”

Can’t believe Emmy didn’t get an Emmy nomination for the show

I didn't even watch the show but just this scene and I'm already crying!!!! Acting is top notch definitely gonna watch this piece😩🔥🔥❤️