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## Video: Late-Night Highlight: So Rosario Dawson's Mom Shot Her With Pepper Spray

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_Published 2015-04-17. On 'Conan' Thursday, Rosario Dawson revealed her mom taught her how to use pepper spray by shooting her with it in the bathroom._


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## Transcript

Rosario Dawson grew up in New York City, so she's always been pretty street smart. The actress told Conan O'Brian Thursday, it's all because her mom taught he the basics at a very early age, and momma Dawson definitely used a pretty. Hands on approach when teaching her ten year old daughter and five year old son how to use pepper spray. We're like in this tiny little studio apartment, and she was like, well, let's to be clean, let's go in the bathroom. So now we go into this even smaller space. [ LAUGH ] And she's like so this is how you use pepper spray. Somehow. We're all like. Crying. [ CROSSTALK ] Yeah, we're with you there Conan.

that's one of the worst ideas we've ever heard. And considering high doses of pepper spray can cause serious respiratory, cardiac and neurologic problems. Rosario and her family are lucky. Effects were only temporary. But Rosario swears it was important lessons like that one that helped make her into the streetwise woman she is today. You have ten seconds to tell us what you're doing bringing cops to Old Town. And that's definitely translated over to her acting. She's played some badass characters in several films over the years. [ UNKNOWN ] anyone and her news role in the original series Daredevils is no exception.

You can see Rosario kicking ****, taking names on Net Flicks Now

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