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OK, besides me, our first guest is
one of the sexiest stars in Hollywood.
[LAUGHTER]
Please welcome back Antonio Banderas.
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Hi, Antonio.
Hello.
How are you?
Very well.
Excuse me, I am not David Beckham.
But--
[CHEERING]
Not bad, huh?
You gave me these a couple of years ago
and I never took them off ever since.
Really?
Wow.
It's a tribute to you-- an homage to you.
Well, I'll give you more pairs so you can change them
from one-- time to time.
Yeah, because my wife is not really happy about it actually.
Yeah.
You look fantastic.
You too.
You look fantastic.
And happy belated birthday.
Thank you very much.
When was it?
It was recently, right?
Very recently, yeah.
Yeah.
A couple of weeks ago, yeah.
Uh huh.
Now, and you and Melanie have your birthdays--
Portia and I are like four days apart.
Yours is one day apart, right?
One day, which is very economical actually.
Yeah.
Because we just change the party from 9:00 to 10:00.
But this year, because of the crisis,
we just keep it very low.
We just gave flowers to each other
and we just kept it there.
Now when you say crisis, I really
don't know what's going on.
I try not to pay attention to rumors and stuff
that's going on.
Yeah, well done actually.
Because I know that they're usually rumors.
But what do you mean by that?
What's going on?
Well--
Because there was a rumor that Melanie went to rehab.
No, it's not a rumor.
But let me explain to you.
OK, please.
I'm very thankful that you asked me that.
I wouldn't talk about this with everybody.
But I will talk to you about this.
It was said, actually, in some magazines that I
gave an ultimatum to my wife--
that I present the line of divorce
because she has been involved in addictions and blah, blah, blah
Melanie has been addicted--
Mhm.
--for many years.
And we always came out.
And we said it out loud.
It was OK.
We never were embarrassed of this situation.
But what happened, actually-- she was clean and sober
for six years.
She got a crash skiing in Aspen a year and a half ago.
So she went through three operations in her knee.
So she has to--
obligated to use narcotics.
Right.
In March, she came to me and she said,
I'm feeling a little bit weak in my determination for this.
So I just thought to go to rehabilitation by myself.
So the whole entire family is supporting her.
And I am supporting her.
And--
[CLAPPING]
--at this particular time, more than ever.
[CLAPPING]
Right.
I'm very proud of her, actually.
Yeah.
I am.
Well, and that is a dangerous thing when you have an injury.
And you all of a sudden are taking these pills.
And it's probably how a lot of people get addicted.
And so when you're prone to that anyway--
Absolutely.
That's really smart to go and keep that in check.
Absolutely.
And the whole family have been there.
We have been following some type of therapy
with other families.
There's a number of invisible heroes working
in AA all around the world.
Mhm.
And I just say to families, to don't get embarrassed,
to just confront this problem head on.
Mhm.
And don't hide from that.
Because there is a beautiful gift at the end of this tunnel.
Yeah.
And it's the person that you love back.
Yeah.
And that's what I am searching for.
And I'm very proud of my wife.
Yeah, you've been together a long time, huh?
15 years.
That's good.
That's amazing.
You're a cute couple.
Well thank you so much.
You're a very cute couple.
Now, see, this is when Twitter comes in handy.
Because when you have something like this that happens,
you just tweet out because it's coming straight from you--
straight from the source--
you tweet out, hey, this is--
Melanie is fine.
--and whatever.
Do you tweet?
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Neither--
[LAUGHTER]
Twitter.
Neither do I.
I'm going to confess you something.
Yeah.
I bought my first cell phone a week ago.
Look at this reaction from the people.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
What, what, what?
I actually admire that.
I didn't like to be gettable.
Yeah.
There are some spaces that I would
like to be just by myself without having to have a cell
phone going off all the time.
Right, right.
The guy who sold it to me got even emotional.
He started crying almost.
[LAUGHTER]
He couldn't believe that he was selling his cell--
I mean, my first cell phone.
Me-- you know it was like, oh, my god.
I've never seen anything like that.
He was very young, actually.
And what kind did you get?
I got an iPhone, actually.
An iPhone?
I am with it all the time.
It's so new and so beautiful.
[LAUGHTER]
I get in bed and I'm watching TV at night with my iPhone
over there just waiting to ring, because nobody
knows that I have a cell phone.
[LAUGHTER]
So nobody calls me.
[CLAPPING]
I'll call you.
Just kidding.
You'll call me?
Give me your number.
I'll give you my number.
All right well, we were going to start selling these anyway
at the Ellen Shop.
And you're getting our very first one
for your very first cell phone.
They have these little covers now that you can put on.
So now you have this for your iPhone.
I'm going to put it on.
And give me your number and I'll call you.
These, the boxers, and I'm with you all the time.