Ex-Meta COO Sheryl Sandbergs assistant was asked to draft talking points while in labor, explosive memoir claims

A woman who formerly worked for Meta’s ex operating chief Sheryl Sandberg claims that she was tasked with drafting “talking points” for her boss while she was in labor with her first child.Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of an explosive memoir about her six-year tenure at the company that was then known as Facebook, wrote a scathing assessment of Sandberg, including a claim that her then-boss invited her to “come to bed” while clad in pajamas during a flight on a private jet.Wynn-Williams, who was director of public policy at Facebook, recalled giving birth to her firstborn in January 2014 in her new book titled “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.”“I get a message,” she wrote.“Sheryl’s about to unexpectedly go into a meeting with the president of Brazil at Davos and she wants talking points.”Wynn-Williams torched Sandberg’s hard-driving work ethos in light of her bestselling 2013 book “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,” which encourages women to be more ambitious in their career while asserting themselves in corporate boardrooms.“I’m in the delivery room, my feet in stirrups, in labor,” Wynn-Williams wrote.

“I put down my phone and reach for my laptop.I start drafting.”Her husband, Tom, who was nearby, was incredulous, according to the book.“What are you doing?” he asked.“Just getting Sheryl some talking points,” Wynn-Williams replied to her husband, according to the memoir.“Sarah, no,” her husband told her.

But Wynn-Williams persisted.“I continue typing,” she wrote.That’s when her husband “appeals to my doctor, a person he knows I deeply respect…”But Wynn-Williams insists on getting the job done despite being “between contractions,” telling her husband and the doctor: “Two more minutes.”According to Wynn-Williams, the doctor “reaches over and gently closes my laptop.”“She says, ‘It’s a very special thing to give birth to your first chil...