These are my rules at my funeral.
Listen up, you could cry but don't cry too much.
Don't make a fool of yourself.
Bertha is not invited, don't let her in, and
you better get drunk afterward, take a shot for me.
>> That is a wonderful woman, who has gone wonderfully viral on Tiktok.
92 year old grandma named Lillian Drewniak who has gone viral after posting
that particular Tiktok video, that has the rules for attending her funeral.
And I love that reporters actually followed up with her, to figure out
whether or not Bertha is a real person, and we'll get to that in just a second.
But first, let's get to know Lillian, okay?
Let's get to know who Lillian is as a person.
On Tiktok Lillian refers to herself as, Grandma Drewniak,
that's her last name of course, and has 4.1 million followers.
On March 30, the TikToker, who has five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren,
filmed herself in front of the text that read, rules at my funeral.
The video now has 31 million views and is one of her most viewed on the platform.
So again, people are super interested in whether or not Bertha is real,
she is and here's what we know about her according to Insider.
Droniak told Insider that Bertha is a real person whom she used to be friends with.
Insider was unable to independently verify the identity of
an individual with the name Bertha who was associated with her.
On April 19th, she also posted a follow up video explaining why she cut
Bertha out of her life, okay?
And here's the explanation.
>> I do not talk about people behind their backs.
I never gossip my entire life, and I don't want to start now, but
I will tell you one thing I cut Bertha out of my life for a long time.
She was not a good person, she was trying to talk to my husband, and
I didn't like that either because she's a troublemaker.
She tried to copy off whatever I wore, she had to wear it do,
now she knows I'm a celebrity and she gets jealous so that I stay away from her.
If she comes to my funeral, kick her out, I don't need her.
>> Can she be my mom?
Like I love you mom, my real mom, biological mom, you could stay too,
but like.
>> No, that's so awesome, she's like the greatest grandma.
>> You Bertha, stay away from her husband, bitch.
>> [LAUGH] Let's be more clear.
>> [LAUGH] >> I need hashtag Bertha trending, okay.
>> [LAUGH] >> Alright, now and by the way,
somebody's gonna let me know when this wonderful woman passed away,
because I will literally do a shot for her.
I'm not kidding, on that day we'll do a virtual funeral for her, and
I'll do shots.
>> No, we gotta pour one out for the homie.
>> Yeah, and you know what, I'll even do a shot for Bertha, okay?
>> No.
>> [LAUGH] Like I don't know despite Bertha whatever.
Okay, I love that.
She's like she's talking to my husband, she still cares at 92.
I love, My God, I love it so much.
The fire.
That's what I love that.
She's got that fire really resonates with me.
You know what I'm saying?
She's copying what I'm wearing and listen, I would look,
I would have the same feelings toward bertha right?
And I was totally reminded me of you actually, it would be a lifelong grudge.
I would never let it go.
And I also would not talk behind her back.
I would also make videos about, well, that's not behind her back.
It's very much right in front of everybody in front of her four million photos by
the way.
Do not actually try to find out whose birthday is, Leave the poor woman alone.
Okay.
But, but we're just having fun with it.
But she's gigantic.
$4.1 million.
You can have more after this.
Okay.
And they're calling people like her grand flu insiders.
That's hilarious.
But there's a few of them on Tiktok.
No. Yeah, that's right.
I haven't, I'm on Tiktok.
I'm not really interested in posting on Tiktok.
I do have one video on Tiktok that I posted when I was sky high.
So if you want to see it and there are a few comments where people are like, and
as high as a kite and I was and you'll see.
But anyway, putting that aside the reason why I have a Tiktok account is mostly
because I like to watch Tiktok videos, they're fantastic and my favorite
videos are the grand flu insiders because they're saucy, they're feisty.
They speak their minds.
Can I just say my favorite people on the planet, our elderly people in general.
Like I just have this soft spot for elderly people.
I always have, I always will but particularly grumpy or
feisty elderly people.
Yeah, that's your favorite thing.
That's because you see yourself in them because I feel like I
can really truly be myself around them without being judged.
Like everyone else is like decorum, be civil, be polite.
Don't tell people what you really think if it's mean keep it to yourself.
But like grumpy elderly people are like, yeah let's talk.
Yeah, I mean look I said this on old school like now years and
years ago when I get to a certain age it's gonna be no holds barred.
You're not gonna be able to stop me?
Hell yeah, bertha.
Here I come.
Okay. All the birthdays in my life.
Okay, what do I got to lose?
I'm about to die.
What difference does it make?
Like short, what are you going to do exactly what we're gonna be all buttoned
up and like polite our whole lives.
That's not okay, you do that during your working years and then one day
if you're lucky enough to retire you get to be and it's gonna be awesome.
Yeah And and by the way, she agrees with me because she said she has light hearted
conversations about death on our platform, she said, quote,
it doesn't need to be scary or taboo.
It helps you to live a life better if you're not afraid.
I love this woman.
Yes, Absolutely.
There's only one thing I disagree with her on, Okay, I like the hot gas.
Why? So
she said she doesn't like gossips that she never gossip.
Don't believe she's gossiping in her video.
No, I don't believe that.
That's the one thing we're calling bs come on.
You got to be honest.
That's what we like about you.
Yeah, we'll go over there if we have some get some tea and scones going, we're like,
so tell me what you think about birth.
Yes.
My God, it would be so.
And by the way, the other thing is I love story time with elderly people,
like their lived experiences what they've experienced with like historic events.
Like they're amazing.
They're the most incredible people on the planet.
They're wise, they always give you good advice.
Yeah, I'll do random plug here of my dad's book because
he's got a million of those stories.
It's called the original young turk.
It's on shop t yT dot com and I'll tell you one of them now,
whenever my parents come over, I always go fishing for
stories about the old times and every time it's amazing.
So in the book, my dad is a million stories, he meets JFK's like four scum.
He's like, unbelievable.
All these different things that happened, right?
He does a revolution in Turkey.
But this one is the one that I've said on the air a couple of times.
He's really stuck with me.
He said that the best days for him when he was growing up.
So he had no electricity in his house growing up.
As a, as a farmer in a small town in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian
border.
He has to get up at around four in the morning.
He doesn't know because there's no clock because there's no electricity, right?
But well before the sun rises, because he's got to get done by the time it's
the afternoon, otherwise the son becomes unbearable.
So that I said so like, but did you have a happy childhood?
He said, yeah, I did, I did.
We were dirt poor, but we loved each other and we had family and
the family always took care of one another.
And, and but the best days were when my neighbor would let me borrow his donkey
because then I could put all the stuff on the donkey and otherwise it's exhausting.
You have to carry all of the equipment for the farming for miles because they have
a tiny piece of land, but it's like a really far and it's all separated out.
You know, it's not this big vast piece of land.
So he's got to carry all that stuff and kill him when he had a mule or
a donkey is like, yes, it's a donkey day.
Okay.
So people that are alive today have stories like that go talk to them,
you'll be amazed by it.
I mean we're so spoiled and we are, we are spoiled.
I'm holding back quite a bit after we did that biblical story about donkeys.
So so we're gonna stay away stay away from that.
Okay. That's what we're discussing now.
We do have one more video though from Lillian about bertha.
How could we miss that?
Let's watch bertha called me up and
she's mad because I told her I don't want to have nothing to do with her.
But then she, she got to find new friends.
That's all, let her find new friends.
Okay, this is how I, so I go underneath throwing
the button because the button was loose and
I made a little not ouch be my mom, I love her so
much hashtag b my mom Yeah, bertha's like, hey,
can you stop throwing me under the bus to millions of people and
she's like no do better find new friends.
Hashtag Bertha I mean she's so old.
She has a friend named bertha.
I know, I know man, super unfortunate names back in the day.
Yeah, but hey Lillian you do, you Lillian's a nicer name.
It is a beautiful name.
People are saying it