Hi, my friend.
Hi, my love.
How are you?
Good, how are you?
I'm good--
I miss you.
I miss you too.
It has been a long time.
We used to hang out, and then, for some reason,
you stopped wanting to hang out.
She's lying.
Don't laugh at that, because she's lying.
No, we're just both busy.
That's what it is
OK good, OK good.
But I just heard today that your daughter is now 14--
Can you believe that?
No I can't.
Do you still have that picture of you
and her when you came to my house so we--
so cute.
Sure I do.
No you don't.
No, but I remember babysitting for her, and helping you out.
I went to the house and helped you out.
And she was just a tiny little--
[CROWD AWWS]
I can't believe she's 14.
There you are--
I am helping with the diaper, I'm putting her to sleep.
Yes, oh it makes me want to cry because she's 14 now.
That's crazy.
And a girl.
And how is she?
[LAUGHING]
She's a lovely, lovely love.
She's got a big heart, she really does.
For all the things that--
she's so-- by the way, I told her
I was going to talk about today, and she of course
gave me a note.
She's very particular about what I say.
She also she has notes for me in general because she's a girl.
Right.
And I'm her mother, and nothing I do is good or funny.
Right.
But she's just 14.
What was the note?
What did she tell you?
The note was-- because I'm a very loving person to people
that I love, and I'm very touchy with the people that I love.
And your kid is one of those people.
So, if I go to touch her, just as she's talking to me.
Because I go, oh that's my daughter,
and I want to touch her.
And she's so cute, or move her hair, alright,
I'm going to just show you the exact reaction, OK?
So just go touch me in a loving way.
God!
Wow.
OK, so then I told her I was going to say that to you,
and she's like, first of, all that not funny.
And I go, OK, it's not that it's not funny, It's the truth.
It's what you do.
And she's like, I don't do that, And so this
is what she said she does.
OK, do it again.
No.
[LAUGHTER]
And that is true.
OK literally, if I just go to touch her face,
like a mother would, I go to touch your face
or give her a kiss, it's that reaction all the time.
Angelo can do that, or no?
No, no, same.
He can't touch, he can't touch.
Wow.
No, when she wants to give love, she gives love.
But it's just she doesn't want you touching her body, ever.
Or talking to her, apparently.
Uh, yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
But she gets away with this, Ellen,
because she is a beautiful person.
Like, we got a note home.
It actually wasn't even to us, it was to her from her school.
And the line started with, "I've noticed some behavior,"
and as a mother, you're like, oh, and it's about to go down.
And it went on to say that a teacher had
noticed that Sophia noticed a girl sitting
by herself at lunch.
And my daughter had taken a bunch of her friends
and went over to that little girl
and sat with them at lunchtime.
And I was like, I just started crying.
And I was like, that is the true person--
Yeah
--that she is.
Naturally sweet.
And so she gets away with this kind of behavior because--
Because of that, yeah.
And she'll take snails out of the way so God forbid,
a snail gets stepped on.
She's a very loving human being, so that's
why she gets away with all of it.
You know what would've been funny,
is if she went over to the little girl by herself
and touched her.
And the girl went, god!
Yes.
That would be--
And then she would--
She would learn her lesson.
Show her.
Exactly.
I saw a picture of the Eiffel Tower.
Does that mean you went to Paris?
Yes, I took my daughter to Paris and--
What a beautiful picture.
Isn't that gorgeous?
Uh huh.
And, so my dream was to go to the top of it
and do what people do when they go to these places.
And I got up to that middle part, not
the second middle part, I think the first middle part.
And I literally almost crapped in my pants.
And I said, I'm good.
I'm good at this point.
This was a lovely trip.
I'm going to go down and watch it and see it from the ground.
And so that's exactly what I did.
Why?
What were you scared of?
It's very high, it doesn't look high, it's a lie.
That picture is a lie.
You have to go up this death crate.
I don't know if you've ever been in it,
have you ever been in it?
They call it a death crate?
They don't-- I don't think that is the correct label.
But It seems really friendly as you get into the crate.
No I've never been up.
But are you scared of heights in general?
Yes.
OK.
There's a picture-- your mom is--
how's your mom doing?
She's hilarious.
She's everything.
You took her to the Chippendales review.
[CHEERING]
[APPLAUSE]
How did that go?
Because Tony Dovolani, who I danced with on Dancing
with the Stars was hosting it.
And so it was like, oh, that'll be a fun girl's trip.
To go to Chippendales.
Well we didn't get sued, that's the good news.
Because of my mother.
Yeah.
Cause she's a very handsy--
Yes.
--person.
I would imagine.
So she believes that she should touch people.
And she was grabbing a lot of crotches.
No.
Yeah.
No, really, crotches?
Yeah.
And these are lovely men.
They didn't sue us-- thank god-- but she just had this idea,
well they don't have their shirt on, why not.
[LAUGHTER]
And I said, if you've ever been to a strip club--
which I have--
there are rules.
You don't just touch people.
Yeah.
You don't grab them, right?
No, you just put the money right in the little pants.
And you keep your hands at your sides.
You don't do that.
You don't--
No.
You don't--
No.
You don't do that.
No.
OK, there are rules.
Right.
Well, it was her first time.
No.
[LAUGHTER]
No.
She had been before.
She had a great time.
I bet she did.
Yeah.
Your mom is hilarious, tell her I say hi.
I will.
Alright, let's talk about Second Act.
Yeah.
First of all, you and Jennifer-- because y'all are friends--
are great together.
Thank you.
That must be-- that's not work, that's fun.
It is fun, and you're right.
But sometimes, working with friends,
it's not always easy, right?
And sometimes when you have chemistry
with your significant other, it doesn't
mean that you will have chemistry on screen.
Right.
So I was really, really, really happy
when we did our first day of shooting,
and it was just very easy.
It felt like Leah and Jennifer.
So you slap her around in real life.
OK, what's funny about that is that the reason why
I love the idea of doing a movie with Jennifer
is because I was going to do a lot of things
that wasn't in the script.
And I was going to be able to just improv.
And so that scene, I just said, I'm
just going to do some stuff to Jennifer that I do in real life
to her.
Like I do that, who's the champ thing to her.
You know, before the AMA's.
I'm like, who's the champ?
And she's like, I'm the champ.
She just-- I do it anyway, even though she doesn't like it.
And so I did this.
I did, who's the champ?
And she's like I'm the champ.
So what you're seeing is her really--
like this is the way she really--
and then I started to slap her, and she cracked me right
across the face of the end.
And you'll see as she's walking away, I start to smile.
I started to smile right there because I
fell to the ground in laughter, ruined the tape.
Because she cracked me so hard.
It was so-- And I did that a lot in the movie.
I ruined a lot of tapes.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
I would do that, too.
You would?
Yeah.
OK, good.
I would have ruined a lot of tapes.
It makes me laugh when someone--
I know.
I keep cutting you off, sorry.
Yeah, it's too late.
Sorry.
Alright, we're going to take a break and--
This is like it is with acting with me.
I would just step on all your stuff and just--
Yeah, that's why we're not doing a movie together
Got it.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]