- I actually was a huge super fan
when you were on American Idol.
I still am a fan.
(applause)
- I did not know this.
- I know I'm not alone; it's the most obvious thing.
Everybody was obsessed with you and continues to be.
But I was supposed to go to the finale
and I had tickets and I was so excited
and I was working on that show 24
and I got a call time that went too late
and I missed it and I'm still devastated.
- We hate 24 for that; I'm just kidding.
I love 24; I'm just kidding.
- But yeah, so anyway - Oh man
- But now look it's like I make up for it.
- You didn't miss anything.
I just looked like a total boob and cried.
It was so dumb, I cried, and they wanted me to sing.
- I cried too; I watched I crying.
I was like, she won!
- I was literally, you know why I was crying so hard?
Yes, dreams were being made, but also I was like,
I never have to serve a drink to a drunk guy again.
(cheering)
- Victory.
- You left, doing The Talk, after 10 years
of doing The Talk, like how was it?
You just recently went back, how was it?
- It felt like home, you know,
when you go back to something you've been at for so long.
And I was so excited to go back and see everybody
and I actually felt more sad in a way leaving,
cause it went so fast.
Like I was just there for a couple hours.
In my mind, I had built up like,
I'm going back! I'm going back! I'm going back!
And then I was like, oh it's over.
- Oh my gosh, it must have been a trip, though.
That's a long time to be on a show,
like to create that family.
- It's a long time, it's a long time.
And I'll just keep finding excuses to go back.
(applause)
- I love the group though, it's a cool group of women.
- It's a nice group. - Yeah, I agree.
So what is it like filming The Conners now,
is it like 30 years
after it was on? - Yeah
- Cause I grew up with you.
I can't believe I'm sitting next to you.
Like I always get freaked out
(cheering)
because it's those people that were
constantly in your life like everyday.
Like those kind of stars that always
I get star struck with because I'm like,
wait, I was with you like everyday,
like when you grew up on TV, like I was growing up.
- Yeah I feel that with people.
You grow up with them and it feels so familiar.
- Not in a stalker way.
(laughing)
Like in a very safe way, yeah.
- It's incredible for me too to be with these people
that I've known my whole life
and have this history with and do these scenes together
that have so much built into them.
- It must be an amazing thing to be a part of something
that was so rare.
Like I feel like Rosanne, like Friends, MASH,
I think there's these shows that kind of stick out in time.
There's others I'm forgetting, but I just mean
that the cast is so perfect, the chemistry is so perfect.
Whatever goes into play, is just perfect.
And I love that like 30 years later
ya'll are doing it again.
And you're now in your second season, right?
(cheering)
- Yeah - It's amazing.
- It's lucky, it's like you can't,
you just never know when you put a group of people together
how it's going to work,
and part of it is luck that you have the chemistry
and the relationships, yeah.
- And just to be a kid in Hollywood
that must have been hard growing up on the show,
so it's good you had, it was like a family environment.
That's kinda cool that you had that.
- Yeah, very cool.
- So it's fun, you're doing it again.
You're doing second season,
and you're also executive producer, right?
- I am. - So you're acting,
you're executive producer, you're a mom.
Do you want another job, or?
(applause)
- It's funny because I left The Talk
so I would have a little more time
and then this morning I had a few hours
because I was coming here so my work day
got pushed later and I literally didn't know what to do.
I was like, I need another job.
- There's no call time, there's no schedule.
- Yeah. - I panic.
Like 'cause I'm so busy all the time.
I'm with you; it's like wait nobody is telling me
when to eat or like what to wear or, yeah.
- I function better when I have structure.
- But you have more time for your family though
now that you're not doing that and you're just
doing The Conners right now, right?
- I do and I get to pick up my kids sometimes
or take them to school.
- Do they come on set ever?
- They do come on set; they say they're coming to see me,
but I have a lot of evidence to the contrary.
(laughing)
So they'll come when I do The Conners
and they'll run around with all the other kids
and they say they're watching the show.
And then when I ask, they have like no idea
what the plot was. - Good.
- And then when I did The Talk,
they'd always say like, oh well what are
the giveaways today?
- What are the giveaways?
- And I was like, aren't you going to come see me?
They're like no, no, no we're coming to see you.
And then all of a sudden,
- But gimme your swag. - Right
Then I go into like one of my kid's rooms
and there's like a new TV and vacuum cleaner.
(laughing)
I'm like, you can't keep that.
- I mean points for getting it!
I mean that's, they're going to run a company.
- They like order it and everything and suddenly
there's like 14 blenders in my living room.
(laughing)
- That's awesome, my kids do that,
we all have kids at The Voice and there's like
a little compound there and they always say
they're coming for me but really they're coming
for the sugar, the catering, and the children.
They don't even care that I'm there.
- Food is a big, the food is a big attraction.
- God, what is it, yeah I'm sure it's the food.
- Well and my food at my house is like no fun, so.
- They don't like me either, weekends,
I give them weekends, they hate me.
I don't care; I'm like Ghost of Christmas Future.
You don't want to have to work.
I'm trying to help you! I'm trying to help you!