Last week, our next guest announced
that she has battled COVID-19.
Please welcome my friend, Pink.
Hi, Pink.
Hi.
How are you?
We're doing all right.
We're doing OK this week.
I don't even know what day it is.
But this is a better week than the last previous ones have
been for our little household.
Jameson is two days now without a fever,
which is really a huge relief.
Wow.
OK, so tell me how long ago did--
because I was watching you post all these day 1, day 2,
quarantine.
And you were keeping busy.
What did you start feeling?
And was it you or Jameson first?
Or how did this happen with both of you getting sick?
And how did it start and when?
Yeah, so it started with Jameson actually.
And he's three, three-year-old's get sick all the time.
But he started with a fever March 14.
We've been quarantined since March 11.
Started with a fever for him.
And it would come and go.
And then he would have stomach pains and diarrhea and chest
pains and then a headache.
And then sore throat.
And it just was all over the place.
Every day was some new symptom.
And then his fever stayed.
It didn't go.
And then it started going up and up and up and up.
And at one point he was at 103.
And I'm calling my doctor, like, what do I do?
He's like, there's nothing to do.
He's three, we're not seeing this take three-year-old's out.
So just stay at home.
I'm like, OK.
Well, there's only so much Tylenol you want to give a kid.
So it was terrifying.
At one point, then I got sick, maybe March 16.
In hindsight, it all makes sense.
But when it's happening, it's such a weird experience
that you just don't put it together until after the fact,
or until days go by.
March 16 I didn't feel good, I was really tired.
I kind of had the chills a little bit.
I felt nauseous, but I never had a fever.
I never had what they tell you to look for.
Wow.
And then all of a sudden--
I've had asthma all my life.
And really, really bad asthma to the point
where sometimes I end up in the hospital.
But it's been years and years and--
maybe, if I'm 40, it's been probably 30 years since I
needed a nebulizer breathing treatment in the hospital
or anything like that.
And at a certain point, maybe around March 18,
March 19, March 20--
when his fever was staying and going up,
I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't breathe.
And I needed a nebulizer for the first time in 30 years.
And I have this inhaler that I use, a rescue inhaler.
And I couldn't function without it.
And that's when I started to get really scared.
Because of all the stuff, you can't help
but watch the news every day.
And I'm like, oh, my God--
wow, all the crazy stuff I did-- like this is it?
[AUDIO OUT] Like, this is the way it ends?
So we were able to get a test.
And I took that chance, and I tested myself.
We could get one test, so I tested myself.
It came back a week later, positive.
And I knew it.
I already knew it.
I knew that that's what it was going to say.
And then at one point, when he started throwing up and saying
that he had chest pains and that it hurt to breathe,
that's the point where you just kind of like--
OK, are we going to the hospital?
What are we doing right now?
(EMOTIONALLY) This is the scariest thing
I've ever, ever been through in my whole life.
So we were a couple of days, maybe,
out of trying to see if we needed to do something more.
But at this point, what can you do?
There's nothing you can do.
You ride it out.
And we started to get better.
And slowly, slowly, slowly-- his temperature stayed the longest.
But I started to feel better.
I stopped being nauseous.
I never had a fever.
And it really is just a roller coaster.
I had a sore throat.
First, I woke up and my sore throat
was on the right side of my throat.
Then it was on the left side of my throat the next day.
Then it was both sides the next day.
Then I couldn't breathe.
Then I was breathing fine, but I didn't feel--
there's no rhyme or reason to this.
And at one point, I was praying--
crying, praying-- and I realize how ridiculous I sounded.
Like, I thought they told us our kids were going to be OK.
We were told that our kids are going to be OK.
And I think when people started explaining
what this disease is, it was too early to be
able to name it completely and tell everybody
what to look for.
And I've talked to so many people that can't get tested.
Friends that are like, yeah, I think we were sick in February.
Like, oh, I think we had that.
I mean, I don't know.
I think testing is really, really important.
It's very controversial to people
that I was able to get my hands on a test.
I would say two things to that.
I would say you should be angry that I can get a test and you
can't.
But being angry at me is not going to help anything.
It's not going to solve the issue of the fact
that you can't get your hands on a test.
But you should be angry about that.
And we should work together to try and change that.
And number two, tell me anybody with a sick three-year-old,
that if they could get their hands on a test,
wouldn't take it.
And if they say that, I'm calling bullbull[BLEEP]..
So yes, the health care system is jacked.
The government is, in a way, failing us
by not being prepared.
But this is where we're at.
And thank God we're getting better.
And the first thing I wanted to do, whether I had it or not,
was how can I help?
Just like you, Ellen.
Everything you do is of service.
I mean, you make the world such a better place.
And so that's what the rest of us want to do.
And that's a huge point in all this
is that every single person in the world right
now gets to be a superhero just by staying home,
just by washing their hands, by buying their elderly neighbors'
groceries if they shouldn't be at the store.
Calling a loved one and making them laugh,
donating masks, saying a prayer for a health care worker--
every single person is vulnerable
and will be impacted by this virus.
And shouldn't we figure out a way
to get together and make it better for each other
instead of fight each other?
I don't know.
These are all the thoughts I've had.
I've had a lot of time to think.
I am-- you know, you're my pal.
And when I heard that you were sick,
it made me so scared and so sad--
of course, anybody who gets sick.
But then there is this beauty that you get to speak to us.
And it's just like when everybody heard
that Tom and Rita got sick.
When we know somebody and there's a face to it,
somehow we listen more.
And you get to have this voice.
And you get to share with everybody, hey,
it happens to anybody.
And y'all had been isolated long before everybody even really
was told to stay in.
And I had asked you how you thought you got it,
and you have no idea.
And then Carey didn't get it.
Willow didn't get it.
Did you isolate--
Well, that the thing.
There's four of us--
yeah.
There's four of us living in this house.
Jameson gets it the worst.
He's three.
I get it second worst.
I have asthma.
I'm 40.
I'm fit as a fiddle.
And I don't really know what that means, but it's a saying.
And then Willow and Carey are walking around the house
like it's a normal day, no symptoms whatsoever.
So yeah, you're right.
It hits super-real.
And it's affecting not just people above 65 years old.
And the social distancing is helping.
It's working.
And we have to keep doing it.
Yeah.
All right, we're going to take a break.
And more with the amazing Pink, who--
I think you cut your own hair.
And I want to talk about it.
We'll be back.
OK, let's talk about-- everybody is
panicked about so many things.
But one of the most important things
that people are talking about is how do we cut our own hair?
So what did you--
I have a feeling you have cut your own hair before though.
I used to do my own hair.
But that was a long time ago.
I don't think I ever cut--
I mean, I've shaved my head many, many times.
But I don't think I've ever cut my own hair.
But I don't know.
I was drinking a lot.
And I was feeling really brave, and Carey
had clippers in the bathroom.
And come to think of it, I don't know
what those Clippers are for.
I don't know if I should have used them at all.
But in my head, I thought--
oh, well, it'll just taper nicely.
And then I figured out who I look like now.
Tell me I--
Who?
Have you seen Vikings?
No.
Oh.
There's this son that doesn't have the use of his legs.
I think that I look like him.
All right, well, now I'm going to watch the show just to see,
because he must be a handsome young man.
So you cut your own hair.
Carey cut his own hair.
How did his turn out?
His turned out great.
He looks like-- he looks great.
I think mine's getting there.
But I just didn't realize that I didn't have a guard on.
So it just went from this to just bald.
And so I thought oh, God.
Well, that's not the taper that I was looking for.
So I just took it all the way back and down on both sides.
So now I feel like I have--
I like it.
--a mullet, which who cares?
I did my nails today.
That's something.
You look lovely.
Now, is this your natural hair color or did you dye it darker?
This is my natural hair color--
Really?
--which was a shock to me.
Yes, I had no idea that this was what was
happening underneath it all.
Mine is pretty-- yeah.
When I had to--
I did a few bad color situations, which
I'm sure you can relate to.
Because the more you color your hair light,
light blonde, the more it falls out or off.
So I had to shave my hair completely last summer,
because it was so damaged.
Really?
And my hair-- yeah.
Last summer my hair was completely shaved.
And I was hoping it was gray, so that it
would look kind of light.
And I was just going to leave it.
But it's not.
It's just dark like that.
So that's what my hair's going to look like.
It was a shocker.
All right, we are back with my friend, Pink.
You did an amazing thing.
You donated a million dollars.
You did half a million dollars to a hospital in Philadelphia,
right?
Mm-hmm.
My mom worked there for 18 years.
And it's an inner city.
It's north Philly.
And they don't have a lot of resources or a lot of ways
to have donations like that.
So it's meant a lot to my mom and to a lot of her friends
that still work there.
Apparently they were playing my music and dancing around.
And that's really fun.
But yeah, I mean, we're all trying
to figure out ways to help.
And there's a lot more that needs to be done.
And I was on a call with some doctors
today that was really fascinating.
And her main point was that testing matters
for containment.
And elections matter for leadership.
And our health care workers are the real heroes,
and doctors and scientists.
And having access to health care matters.
And loving ourselves and each other
and taking care of our mental health matters.
And 10 years from now, we have an opportunity
that we could look back and change maybe started
because of this.
So that's what makes me hopeful.
Yep.
I think that that's what we have to have right now.
We have to have hope.
And as everyone says, this too shall pass.
And it will.
I love you.
Thank you for everything you're doing.
And I'll talk to you soon.
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