own, taking a look back at when
they first began dating.
Set the record straight.
Were they or were they not the
said booty short?
>> The booty shorty?
I'll do you one better.
I went home to my mama and
daddy's house and I found the
shorts.
So what I want to do, I'm not
going to say nothing about them
booty shorts.
You're going to have me back on
this show and I'm going to have
on the booty shorts.
And we can decide --
>> If they were or were thought?
>> Yes.
We'll take a poll.
That's all I'm going to say.
>> Come on, come on.
But you guys, I mean, we have
talked about this on every red
you guys, it seems like you are
still having so much fun.
You are still -- even in many
ways still getting to know each
other in your relationship.
You've been together a very long
time.
But you still seem to be
unraveling new parts of each
other, is that true?
>> It's very true, yes,
actually, it is now that you say
it out loud, that's very true.
This is a whole new experience
for us.
You know, look.
I met sterling, we were 18 years
old, Stanford university.
So I've known him as a kid,
quite literally.
I've known him as a fledgling
actor.
I've known him as an actor in
grad school.
We went to grad school together.
I've known what it's like for
him to first start auditioning.
So I've seen all these different
incarnations.
And this is actually like a
surprise incarnation.
Because you know, you don't --
success in this business can
sometimes mean, I got a job.
I can pay my mortgage.
You know what I'm saying?
And this show going on for 15
years and that's success, right?
You know what I mean?
But this level of like success,
the people that he's worked
with, being on one of the best
shows, you know, on television,
not just now, but I'm convinced,
you heard it here first, "This
is us" is going to go down in
history.
When they do the best shows
ever --
>> Count them down.
>> The countdown, "This is us"
will definitely are one of them.
On it a historical show.
All of that.
To see all of that happening, I
get to see a whole new
incarnation of this man, as he
navigates everything.
Also what it means for us.
Now we have kids.
>> So two boys.
>> Two boys.
>> 13 years together?
Is that right?
How many years together?
>> Yeah, we've been married for
13 years.
I know.
He's the one who remembers the
dates and times.
I'm always like, I need him here
to tell me.
How long we been married?
>> You said when you went back
to work on this show, "First
wives club" on B.E.T., he
stepped up.
>> He did.
He had help.
Okay, let's not --
>> Hold on --
>> I love my husband but I don't
want to give anybody this idea
that he, you know, was taking
the kids to work with him, sit
in this trailer, daddy got to go
to work.
No, no, no.
We had help.
And thank god.
You noirm?
Our families are not necessarily
in a position -- both of us --
you know, he has a mom who is
dealing with some physical
challenges and I have a dad
who's -- we don't necessarily
have family that can pack and up
come and stay with U. You know.
We have -- importantly we had to
collect our family, put it that
way.
So we had people around him who
could hold it up.
Still, he's the one -- it's
funny, bedtime became -- I put
the kids to bed.
There's a bedtime.
I'm talking to sterling and I
hear all this stuff.
And he's like, well, this is how
we go to bed now.
I'm like, what do you mean?
They wrestle while he falls
asleep, then he wakes up in the
middle of the night and they've
fallen asleep.
I'm like, this is not how
bedtime is supposed to go.
He's like, they're not going to
hurt themselves if they fall out
of the bed, they'll just fall on
the carpet.
I'm like, this is not -- I was
like, what was the story?
Did they get a story?
Three little bears?
Just wrestle.
>> "First wives club" is one of
those stories that women, that
really everybody connected with
so much.
It's coming now to B.E.T. As a
series.
How is the story adapted from
the movie?
Or is it an homage other than
the name?
>> It is definitely an homage.
I think we take the spirit of
"First wives club" the movie and
give it a new home.
Completely different shades and
shutters and duvet covers and
all that stuff.
The spirit is still there.
You know what I mean?
If you're really a fan of the
movie, you'll recognize it.
>> Who did you say is your aunty
in law?
>> Goldie Hawn.
She is my aunty in law in show
business.
>> Is that right?
>> Oh yeah, for real, it's a
thing.
Looky look, it's a thing.
>> I love it.
I mean, who -- so then who of
the cast would you most liken
your character to?
>> My character is definitely
the Diane Keaton character,
definitely.
The spirit of Diane Keaton is
strong in my character, yes.
I channel -- you know the
channeling.
You know what it is to channel.
>> Y'all didn't see it.
The channelling is really
strong.
It's really strong.
>> When one has batwing dress
thing, that's what one has to
do, right?
>> You're killing it.
It looks good out here.
Give it up.