On Sunday afternoon, Michelle Obama hit the stage at the O2 in London for her latest stop on her Becoming: An Intimate Conversation with Michelle Obama tour.

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The 55-year-old former First Lady was noticeably looking super chic in a gold-fringe black top as she spoke with moderator Stephen Colbert.

While promoting her best-selling autobiography Becoming, Obama encouraged people to be “more skeptical about social media” and return to speaking to one another “face to face.”

She explained how she is “not emotionally able” to look at Twitter and the news since Trump’s presidency because “you can’t have a steady diet of fear and intimidation.”

“That’s what I would encourage people to do. Don’t read about your neighbors on Twitter, because somebody can talk into your ear about the person right next door to you and they can feed you lies and misperceptions,” she told the crowd of 15,000 fans who were packed in the arena.

“We need to get to know each other and not have our actions filtered by some third party that we don’t know what their agenda is,” she continued. “We don’t even know who is doing the tweeting. We have got to get off the phone and start talking to each other face to face. We can’t rely solely on this little intermediary to tell us about the world.”

While speaking with Colbert, Obama also discussed how it was for her to raise her two daughters, Sasha and Malia, in the White House, describing it as “just a little more extra.”

“Imagine the first time you invite Sasha Obama over for a play date,” she said, prompting laughter from the arena.

“I’m surprised my girls have any friends at all,” she joked.

She then went into how strict the security precautions that the Secret Service would take before her daughters were allowed to sleepover at a friends house, noting that sniffer dogs would have to be brought in and parents would be asked about any guns or drugs in the house.

“I would just have to tell parents — don’t lie. They’re not going to take ’em. They just need to know where they are,” she said.

“So imagine having that conversation and then you’re like ‘thank you for inviting Sasha over and by the way, there’s going to be a man sleeping outside of your door with a gun, can you let him come in and use the bathroom every now and then?”‘ she continued.

Becoming, which was was released late last year, sold more than 1.4 million copies during the first seven days of its release, making it become the biggest first-week sales of any book published in 2018. 

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