Our next guest is an incredible nine-year-old cancer survivor
named Lilly, who we met last season.
She's actually sitting in our audience
right now with her mom, Trish.
Did you fall down?
Move down, move down.
You fell down?
Yeah.
What happened?
My friend accidentally tripped me, but accidents happen.
Oh no, it was an accident.
Yeah.
All right, well, you look very pretty.
I like your dress.
I like what you have on.
Thank you.
Thanks for being here.
How are you feeling?
I'm feeling great.
I just did my scans and they came back clear,
so I'm cancer free.
Yay!
[APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]
Yay!
That's fantastic news.
Any new 19s in your life?
Actually Ellen, it has been--
I swear, unless you saw it for yourself,
it's hard to believe that it happened.
So Lily started school, the fourth grade.
And she had to change schools the second day in,
and I was quite worried about it.
So that day she came home from her first day
with a water bottle with a big "19" on it and I'm like OK,
what's going on?
And she tells me that her student number-- they
do all the kids alphabetically.
Well, she's number 19.
And also I do a new sport.
It's soapbox derby racing.
Me and my dad worked so hard on it,
and I just had my first ever soapbox race.
And we had to do her car so we turned it over--
Yeah, it was a used one and we turned it over,
and we figured out that it was 19 years old.
Yes.
What?
Her car is 19 years old.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
That's so cra-- I mean that--
19 really is your number.
It is.
Our number.
So, you know how there's numbers on race cars like 73, 107?
Yeah.
Well my car number is 19.
Yeah, of course it is.
Of course it is.
And I can't believe you soapbox car race.
How did you get into that?
Well my dad found a soapbox car offer up.
And he asked me, hey, do you want to go
and we'll check it out?
And I'm like, yeah.
And we liked it, so we bought it,
and we just started working on it.
And it's-- the crazy part is that it was my first ever race.
I was 10 and 0.
That means I won 10 and lost none,
and I was the only person who was undefeated, so--
It's amazing.
Lily, [APPLAUSE] I have to say we touched on this last time.
I learned this from you, which I had no idea.
So childhood cancer research is the lowest-funded.
I mean, that's crazy to me for childhood cancer
to be the lowest-funded of all cancers.
Yes.
childhood cancer is the lowest-funded form of cancer
research here in the USA.
And what most people think is that it's because it's rare,
but here in the US it's the number-one killer of kids.
And we fight every single day to bring awareness and a change.
So we have started a petition with the White House
to change the national childhood cancer research amount.
Because we have seen firsthand what research really can do.
And we want to make sure that we can make sure
that change happens for children like Lilly
who, when September ends, and Childhood Cancer Awareness
Month ends, for kids like Lilly and the millions of others,
it doesn't end when the month ends.
The fight is for every single day.
Well, we'll put it up on our website.
It's Call To Action, but if you go to our website
you can learn how to get involved and help
bring awareness to that, because that's really important.
So season 19, here you are.
I said you were going to come back.
19 is important to you.
So I think it would be really fun for you all to come back
for my last week of season 19 so y'all are getting VIP tickets
for my last week.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
Oh!
Really?
All right?
Thank you!
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