-Our next guest is a Grammy-nominated singer
and singer/songwriter whose new show, "Conjuring Kesha,"
premieres Friday, July 8th on Discovery+.
Let's take a look.
-Energy, spirit, ghost, demon,
whatever is in here, how's it going?
I'm gonna do a ghost-box session.
Hopefully I can talk to a nice spirit through this thing.
You can talk into here.
You can use this to tell me your name.
-Please welcome to the show Kesha, everybody!
♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ]
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Welcome to the show, Kesha. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Thank you. -I am so excited.
One of my favorite thing about paranormal investigation shows
is the tiny flashlight.
And I'm so glad you have -- [ Laughter ]
-Mine's bedazzled. -Yeah, I could tell.
-Did you notice? -It's both a tiny flashlight
that I've grown accustomed to from these paranormal shows.
And with a real Kesha twist on it, which is it's bedazzled.
-It sparkled. [ Laughter ]
-You had a podcast about the paranormal.
-I did. Well, this story goes way back.
And again, I told him this earlier, I haven't been on
"Late Night" in like years. -Uh-huh.
-So we might ramble. -Okay.
-So if we do, we get her and we bring her back.
-Okay, gotcha. -Okay.
-Before I ask about your show, because you know,
it is Pride Month and you -- -Oh [bleep] -- Yeah.
Can I -- [ Laughter ]
-What do you mean, "Can I?"
If you can't, what are you going to do?
[ Laughter ] -Whoops.
-It's totally fine.
You performed at the legendary Stonewall Inn.
-Yes. -For Pride. Look at that.
[ Cheers and applause ]
I want to ask you, you and your dancers wore something,
and guess what the network said.
"We have to blur it out."
-I mean, that is making it seem way worse.
-I agree. I saw this photo earlier, and it was not --
It did not deserve to be blurred, but everybody decided.
-That's just beautiful butts.
-Yeah, it was beautiful butts.
-For Pride. -It was for Pride.
I'm assuming that your dancers were enthusiastic about
showing off their beautiful butts as well.
-Absolutely. Oh, we were in dance rehearsal, and I was like,
"Listen, my butthole is going to be out."
-Okay. -"So, if you would like to
and feel comfortable, I invite you to join me."
-Yes. [ Laughter ]
I will say, I always feel like, when I'm seeing a show,
I either want to see no buttholes or everybody's.
-All the buttholes. [ Laughter ]
-Yeah. -Options!
-Yeah. I just don't -- 'Cause if there's just one,
then the whole show, I'm just following that around.
-Right. [ Laughter ]
That would be very narcissistic of me to just be like,
"Only my butthole." [ Laughter ]
-Now on to the paranormal, so --
-[ Laughs ] Speaking of buttholes.
-Do ghosts have them?
-Listen, I --
[ Laughter ]
-No, like, when you become a ghost, do you keep the butthole?
-I can confirm -- You know what?
Actually, I might have to go back on that.
So I have, like, a whole thing. -Okay.
-I have a thing. Can I tell you the thing?
-Great. -Okay.
So I always loved the paranormal.
I've had weird experiences.
My whole life has been very weird.
And then during COVID, I was, like, having, like,
existential crisis after existential crisis
and just lots of anxiety, and one night I'm sitting in bed
and I was like, "Uh-oh.
Here we go." And --
[ Laughter ]
And I was like, "My -- My brain's breaking.
I feel it breaking. It's going. This is me.
I knew it was going to happen, but here it goes.
We're going crazy." -Okay.
-And then, like, I heard a voice, I saw a vision.
My cats brought me headphones.
It's a whole thing. [ Laughter ]
And, like, I understood what love was.
I saw the whole universe.
I pulled back. It was a microcosm of itself.
I got the -- got the picture, right?
-Yeah. Sure.
-So the next morning, I called my therapist
and I was like, "Girl, it happened."
[ Laughter ]
-Did your therapist say,
"Did the cats bring you the headphones?"
[ Laughter ]
-And I was like, "Yep."
And she was like, "Guess what. Congratulations."
And I was like, "What are you talking about?"
She's like, "This is a spiritual awakening."
And I was like, "Wait, what?"
[ Laughter ] And she was like this, "Yay!"
And I was like, "This is the point?
Like, this is what I've been working towards?
What? This is terrifying."
And she was like, "Yeah, welcome."
And I was like, "Okay." And so I decided to really,
like, lean into it. I started writing music about it.
And I called my brother. That was my next phone call.
And I was like, "Okay, my brain broke. We're leaning into it.
We're making a TV show about this
and we're going to go find some ghosts.
Let's look for some aliens and [bleep] it.
Let's get Bigfoot."
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I mean...
I'll tell you this. If I was a network executive
and that was your pitch, I'd be like,
"We want to do 50 seasons."
[ Laughter ]
-Honey, that's the goal.
-Now, you have guests. -Yes.
-You travel to sort of places that you think might be
inhabited by the spirits, the paranormal.
Are your guests -- These are sometimes people you know.
Are they enthusiastic about taking this journey with you?
-Yeah, so each episode is a journey
to its own special place. -Okay.
-So I call up my friends
and the really good ones are like, "Fine."
And so, like, the first episode
is Whitney Cummings is coming with me.
-She's great. -The best.
Such a good friend.
I took her to a haunted prison in the middle of
the Tennessee mountains,
and there was a demon.
[ Laughter ]
There was a demonologist.
She's upstairs, like, having this beautiful moment crying.
She believes that she's connected and is having
a full conversation with a trans ghost.
-Okay. -Which may be true.
-Sure. -Downstairs, the demonologist is
screaming, "Get her out of there!
It's a demon! It's a trick!"
And I'm sitting there being like,
"Um...I'm not going up there in case it is a demon."
[ Laughter ] "But, like, Whitney's crying
and having, like, a really beautiful, like, experience."
-Yeah. By the way -- -And I'm the host.
-Yeah. And as of two minutes ago, a friend.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
-You literally were like, "Whitney is the best.
Anyway, I took her to a prison.
She met a demon and I was like, 'Bye!'"
[ Laughter ]
I'm very excited that you have this show.
This makes me very happy. -Listen, it's like --
If nothing, it's very entertaining.
-Yeah. I mean, I also might want your therapist's number
because I feel like this is the one I want, where I'm like,
"I lost my mind," and she's like, "Monetize it!"
[ Laughter ]
This has been an absolute delight having you here.
Congratulations on your show. -Thank you.
-Please come back again. -Oh, I'm coming back.
-I feel like you barely -- I mean, if you haven't done
"Late Night" in a long time, I feel like, you know,
the break paid off. -Did I do good?
-You were fantastic. -Did I do okay, you guys?
-Give it up for Kesha, everybody.
[ Cheers and applause ] Wonderful!
"Conjuring Kesha" premieres Friday, July 8th on Discovery+.
We'll be right back with Patrick Radden Keefe.