You look fantastic.
And I love that dress.
That's great.
Oh, thanks.
And you're married now.
I am married now.
And how's that going?
It's going very well.
Yeah?
Yes.
Yeah.
It started a little rocky in the beginning.
But-- oop, there he is, there's my guy.
Yeah.
Now why was it rocky?
You know what?
I think-- well, several reasons.
Marriage is hard.
And we had never lived together before we got married.
I was sort of desperately clinging to my independence
just for a little longer.
I'm kind of obnoxious about how I like to live.
I am very specific about how I like
things, where I like things.
And then we started living together because we had to.
So you're neat and he's messy.
Yes.
That's what you're saying.
Yes.
And it's little things.
It's just the little things, but they can drive you bananas.
They can.
Like what little things?
Well, with him, the other day-- the poor guy,
I'm always just killing him-- but anyway, he's
wonderful most of the time.
But the other day in the master bathroom,
the trash can was full.
And I mean, we're both using it.
We both look at it every day and put our Kleenexes
in it and our trash in it.
And so what I don't understand is if you're looking at it
and I'm looking at it, why don't you
help and take it out sometimes?
Right.
Yes.
Because I do it 90% of the time.
Like, hey, throw me a bone.
Yeah, just 10%.
Take the trash out.
But it's so ridiculous, isn't it,
that that--it's such a cliche, but that is it.
It's those little things.
All right.
So let's get to the big announcement,
because I know what it is and I'm so excited for you.
Tell everybody what you came here to tell people.
I did.
It's so exciting for me to do this with you,
because I love you.
And this is such an important thing in our lives.
And obviously, our marriage is going well enough, because we
are adopting a baby from Korea.
[APPLAUSE AND CHEERING]
I know.
Thanks, guys.
Now, OK, so the baby is in Korea right now.
How old is the baby?
She's-- it's a little girl and she'll be 10 months at the end
of this month.
She was actually born the day before me
in November, which I thought was really serendipitous and just
kind of like a sign.
And then I realized just recently,
I basically forfeited my birthday
for the rest of my life.
Yeah.
Which is not cool.
Or hers to you.
So when did you meet her?
How long ago, and when did you start thinking about this?
We started talking about adoption
even before we were engaged.
Because it's really important to me,
it's been a big part of my life and my family.
My sister is Korean and my parents
adopted her back in the '70s.
And so I just always knew that that
was something I wanted to do.
And I made that really clear.
Because not everybody is down with that.
Not everybody thinks that, do you know what I mean?
Right.
And I just wanted to make sure that I was marrying a guy--
and to a guy who understood that that
was going to have to happen.
Right.
And so about a year ago is when we started going,
OK, let's start the process.
And the process is intense.
But it's different but it isn't.
Do you know what I mean?
It's just as intense, I'm sure, to have a baby biologically,
because you're going through the whole physical sort of thing
of it.
But this is--
With this, there's lots of--
I mean, I know a little bit about that.
There's a lot of questions they make you answer--
We had to fill out a pamphlet that
was about 40 pages, super, super detailed.
What kind of people we were, how we expected
to raise the baby, what kind of parenting ideas do we have,
how were we raised, what would we do the same
and what would we do differently?
And it was funny because--
I think everyone should fill that out.
I do too.
I think that every single person should fill that out.
I really do too.
These are very valid questions, you know?
[APPLAUSE]
Yeah.
It's a baby.
You should probably have some idea.
And it's funny, because you kind of
don't even, you think about some of these things,
you talk about some of these things
but you don't get really into the mix of it
until you're looking at these questions going, oh, my god,
we better answer these right.
Otherwise, they won't give us the baby.
Right.
And the baby is in Korea right now.
She is.
And when did you see her--
you met her, I assume.
We have not met her yet.
You haven't met her.
No, and that's partly why I'm here talking about this.
Did they send a picture?
Yes, they sent us a picture.
They told us that it was a little girl
and who she was and the information about, oh, god,
like six months ago.
And it was meant to take a long time.
This sort of thing can take years.
But her name is Nalee.
Well, I'm naming her after my mother
and my sister, Nancy Lee.
So we call her Nalee.
I just dropped that one.
Anyway, I'm sure that's fine.
Anyway, we have to meet her first.
We assume it's a Nalee.
But she has special needs.
She's a special needs baby.
And because of that, it all moved so much faster.
They wanted to get her to us as quickly as possible.
So she's coming real soon.
Really very soon.
Like real, real soon.
Which is why I wanted to tell everybody,
so you don't think I stole a Korean baby.
[LAUGHTER]
And that's why you're here, so that you can then
go have time to do that.
So we'll talk about if you're going there
or she's coming here or whatever.
We have to take a break.
And I have a gift for the baby too.
No, you don't.
Yes, I do.
Katherine Heigl, new mom-to-be is here.
And I was just saying during the commercial break,
that OCD thing is going to be challenging with a baby around.
Because when you want something right there,
it may not stay there for long.
No, I'll have to just like strap her arms down around her
and tape her.
Yeah.
I'm just kidding, come on.
Good think you filled that out already.
Exactly.
Yeah.
That's right.
Yeah.
And so are you going there to get her or is she coming here?
This was a whole sort of complicated thing.
Because I wanted to, I actually wanted
to go to Korea to get her.
And I wanted to bring my sister, because she's never been back
since she left 34 years ago.
And then she went and got pregnant so she
couldn't fly anymore.
And she was sort of like, ah, we'll do it next time.
I was like, but this was going to be
a big moment for all of us, OK.
And then it turned, the more we thought about it,
the more crazy it was to try to attempt it.
Because a week ago, I went rug shopping
and there were 50 paparazzi.
And I just thought, this will traumatize her.
And I don't want to traumatize her right out of the gate.
She will-- there's plenty of time for that.
Right.
So much time to mess her up.
Yeah.
Yeah, that is what is really sad about people
that are in the spotlight that have kids.
Because it's not fair to the child,
because they just are like, they have
no idea why that's happening.
And it's scary.
Getting chased.
It can be really intimidating.
And you can't see your feet in front of you
because it's so many flashes and that sort of thing.
And I just thought, it's one thing to take me on
and I made a choice, so I have to live with the consequences
of that choice.
But don't take my kid on.
Well, hopefully, they'll leave you alone.
But we got you a--
one thing we got you is Ellen onesie, so she can put that on.
Yay.
That's awesome.
And I'm glad you brought this up.
I was going to tell you about, the paparazzi
can be really, really relentless.
So what we got-- this is-- we modified--
A decoy baby.
We got-- well, you can do that too.
But we got this to put-- the baby can actually,
we actually put this together so that you can actually
put the baby hoodie on, and a wig,
and they'll never recognize her.
Yay.
[APPLAUSE]
Or you can use a decoy baby.
We'll just use her as a decoy.
Just use her.
She doesn't look very Korean, though.
No, not-- well, not right now.
But we can fix that.
All right.
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