Well, you look beautiful.
You look great.
I'm so happy to have you here to talk about this.
How are you feeling right this minute?
You know what?
I'm feeling really, really great.
And walking out to what your audience just gave me,
and being with you right here, and you opening your heart
and your show to me telling the story
just is so healing in and of itself.
Yeah, well I'm glad that you can be here to do that.
I have in case you need it.
Great.
You were diagnosed in April.
Did you think something was wrong?
Was it was it just a check up, or?
Yeah, well you know what?
Interesting, I'm very much like you.
I don't eat any meat, I don't smoke,
I barely drink-- well we're not the same there.
But--
I drink a lot.
Just kidding.
Anyway, and I've just no history of breast cancer in my family.
My mother is 89.
Absolutely nothing in the checking the boxes.
Nothing that would ever in any way.
But like most of us women, I'm really busy.
We're families and work and so much going on.
I went three years, Ellen--
I'm embarrassed to tell you--
without getting a mammogram.
And then finally went in, got the mammogram,
and three or four days later that dreaded phone call
came that said, we found breast cancer.
So they didn't find it right away with--
because they usually call you when after the mammogram,
and talk about it, and they go it looks good.
And then you go home.
But they a few days later they found it?
Yeah.
It was a different-- stage zero.
At that time.
And then you decided to do a double mastectomy.
Yes.
And they found more.
Yes.
It was stage zero, I was going to have no chemo,
and we were just going to do one breast.
And I elected to do a double mastectomy, just
for safety purposes.
And thank god I did, because when my--
I have an entire female team, and my two female surgeons
went in.
And everything was going so great.
They were like you know the breast tissue is healthy,
and the elasticity in the skin is really good.
And they were like, we're out of here for lunch probably.
Can have you know sushi and tequila later.
This will be great and the very last scoop
of breast tissue that they took out
was right near my chest wall, across from my heart,
and hidden under the dense breast tissue
was a 1.5 centimeter stage 3 tumor.
And I really thought about that, Ellen,
and it was like it was hidden under the breast
tissue near the heart.
And we wouldn't have found it unless we did that.
But I think a lot about how in life we
can hold bitterness, or hold resentment
or anger towards people.
And sometimes-- I'm not saying that.
But sometimes it can manifest in our bodies.
So my message right now is let it go.
Whatever you're holding on to, let it go.
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So you're in the middle of chemo now.
I'm in the middle of chemo right now.
And it's horrible when you are getting it.
And these are the days-- like it's a good day today.
Today is a great day.
But when you're getting it, it's tough.
It's-- yeah.
It's not so good.
It's brutal, and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
And I wanted to quit from the first one, till right now
today.
I just don't want to go through it.
But you have to, so.
How much more do you have.
I have one more, and I would love for you guys--
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Thank you.
One more.
And I would love your prayers on October 22
when I have my very last chemo.
October 22.
We will all be with you.
All right.
You're wearing a little hat.
What's the hat?
Well, you know what?
I just found out about this.
I didn't know, and maybe a lot of people in the audience,
I don't even know if you'll know this, Ellen.
But it's called a cold cap, and it
helps you to preserve your hair if you have the type of cancer
where you can do that.
So it freezes the hair follicles,
and it's basically like--
you have to change it every 20 minutes,
and you put this hat on that's freezing.
And it freezes the hair follicles, as I said.
And it prevents the chemo from going into burning the hair.
That's great.
But it changes every 20 minutes for eight hours.
Wow.
That's very cold on your head.
I know.
It's like a brain freeze literally for eight hours.
We have to take a break, but I have to say
I didn't know that you had been struggling with this,
and during the summer--
you were diagnosed in April.
Then you came to see me do stand up.
And I couldn't believe you came out
to see me when you were going through that.
And I just, it meant so much to me,
number one, that you came to see me.
And number two that you were going through that
when you came to see me.
So thank you for--
that was really sweet.
Well, you're my friend, and you've been so kind to me.
And I love you.
And laughter is the best medicine,
and what you provide to all these people
and everybody at home every day is laughter
truly is the best medicine.
And me being at an event for Ellen,
a very small event where she just did her stand up,
I laughed for an hour and a half straight.
And I want to tell you, no chemo, no pills no drugs,
can do what laughter can do for you.
All right so Kim Douglas is here with us,
and tell everybody what you meant to say?
Well I just wanted to say that when
you get a diagnosis like anything, anything,
your whole family is participatory in that.
And love comes to you from so many different places.
And it was my son's 21st birthday,
and I was just gotten out of chemo, and he had a party,
and all the guys got together these kind of kids
that had been in Los Angeles.
And you sometimes feel like they're young kids that
could care less.
And all the boys donated and brought together
$1,700 instead of giving him a gift for breast cancer
awareness.
That's amazing.
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And that's them, yeah.
Your son Hunter?
And my son Hunter, yep.
So all month long, Ulta Beauty is helping us raise money
for breast cancer research, and they
want to donate a check for $50,000 in your name.
And we have your son Hunter to give it to you.
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Honey!
I made it.
[INAUDIBLE]
Oh, honey.
Oh my god.
Here you go.
We'll be right back.