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Niecy Nash-Betts<\/a> didn’t need clothes to celebrate her Emmy win!<\/span><\/p>\n After <\/span>taking home her first Emmy<\/a> on Monday night, the 53-year-old actress got naked.\u00a0In a clip shared on Instagram, Nash-Betts talks to the camera live from a swimming pool with her statuette in hand.<\/span><\/p>\n “OK guys, as planned I am celebrating my Emmy win by going skinny dipping,” she tells the camera in the video shot from the shoulders up. Still in full hair and makeup glam, the <\/span>Reno 911<\/span><\/em> star shares that she and her wife, Jessica Betts, booked a hotel especially for the occasion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Betts finally arrives in frame and flashes a bottle of champagne and the actress says goodbye to her followers so she can “really get the party started.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ahead of capping off her evening, Nash-Betts spoke to ET, where she revealed her plans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “We’re gonna hit some parties but we ended up booking a hotel suite that has an indoor swimming pool, so we are going skinny dipping tonight, that’s the plan,” she told ET of the private after-party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Nash-Betts took home the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her work in <\/span>Dahmer –<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Monster: The Jeffery Dahmer Story<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The actress took the stage, where <\/span>she delivered one of the evening’s most memorable speeches<\/a>, thanking herself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “I want to thank me,” she said as the crowd roared in applause. “For believing in me and doing\u00a0what they said I could not do. And I want to say to myself in front\u00a0of all you beautiful people — go on, girl, with your bad self! You did that.”<\/span><\/p>\n While speaking to ET, Nash-Betts shared why she chose to do that in the moment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “Because you know a lot of times people don’t and that’s why it’s not called mama-esteem and us-esteem, them-esteem. It’s called self-esteem because don’t nobody got to believe it but you,” she said. “And I believed in myself because they were like, ‘That is not your lane.’ And I’m like. ‘Oh yes it is.'”<\/span><\/p>\n Amid the support from herself, her wife, and her mother, Nash-Betts’ best friend, Sherri Shepherd, took to Instagram to share a video of her celebrating her milestone win. In the clip, the talk show host reacts to her friend’s good news by screaming in the camera.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “My best friend WON an @televisionacad #Emmy!!!!!!! @niecynash1 you are in a special class now! Sooo proud of the little girl who stood at the foot of the bed to make her Momma laugh! Love you Friend\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f #niecynash,” she wrote alongside the clip.<\/span><\/p>\n Nash-Betts said prior to the big moment, Shepherd was texting her videos from the ceremony they attended together, which fell around the time Nash-Betts was going through her divorce.<\/span><\/p>\n “She was texting me videos from the last time we all came together,” Nash-Betts said. “I was going through my divorce and they were like, ‘You not going on the carpet by yourself, we gonna hold you up,’ and I didn’t win, but we had so much fun that night. I said, ‘I miss you guys.'”<\/span><\/p>\n Though she didn’t have her besties by her side, she had two very important people.<\/span><\/p>\n “I looked to my side and I saw JB, the greatest love of my life, and my mama,” she added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Also in support of her win was actress Storm Reid, who took home an Emmy for her guest spot on <\/span>The Last of Us<\/span><\/em>. The young star took to her Instagram to share a collage of her, Nash-Betts and fellow Black actresses Quinta Brunson and\u00a0Ayo Edebiri — who are all officially <\/span>Emmy winners<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Gabrielle Union also took to her Instagram Story to share a clip of Nash-Betts’ speech and a supportive caption.<\/span><\/p>\n “@niecynash, you already know,” she wrote alongside a series of emojis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “I feel so affirmed by my peer group,” Nash-Betts told ET of all the support she got in and out of the room. “I feel fully seen in the moment. I really do.”<\/span><\/p>\n The 75th\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Primetime Emmy Awards<\/a>,<\/span><\/i>\u00a0originally set to take place last September, was postponed due to the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. Hosted by Anthony Anderson at L.A. Live’s Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, the ceremony aired live Monday, Jan. 15 at 5 p.m. PT, 8 p.m. ET on Fox, and will be streamed Tuesday, Jan. 16 on Hulu. Keep checking\u00a0<\/span><\/i>ETonline.com<\/a><\/i>\u00a0for complete\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Emmys coverage<\/a><\/i>\u00a0and for the full winners’ list.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n