Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn’t original sin. He’s born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don’t have the courage to do it.

Hayes reframes “tragedy” not as a moral stain (the Christian doctrine of original sin) but as an existential condition: the unavoidable demand that a person mature. Growing up here means accepting responsibility, loss, compromise, and the end of childhood’s protections—an inward, psychological passage rather than a mere biological one. Her final clause suggests that many evade this task through denial, dependency, or perpetual adolescence; the “courage” required is the willingness to face reality and shape a self under its constraints. The remark fits Hayes’s public persona as a reflective performer: it treats adulthood as a role that must be consciously assumed, not passively inherited.