[MUSIC FADES]
- Here you are!
- Aw!
Here we are.
- You were on my first season, and you've been in between,
and now you're on my last season.
- Aw, I'm so proud of you.
Look what you did.
- Look what we did!
- Look what you did.
- Look what both of us did.
Look what we accomplished.
We have known each other for a long time.
- Over 30 years.
- Yeah, crazy.
- A long time, yeah.
I remember when you were just a wee little thing.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, you always had this dream.
And I've just loved seeing you--
these last two decades-- really, really not just
doing it for you, but for all of us.
You've really brought us all in.
[APPLAUSE]
- Thank you, thank you.
Well, I used to follow you around and--
- No, literally.
She followed me around.
- I really did.
- Absolutely.
- I saw so--
I mean, I don't know how many concerts I've seen of yours.
But if you have not seen her in concert--
Yeah, that's me and you, and Rosie O'Donnell.
- Yeah!
[LAUGHS]
Yes, we had some-- that was back when we had time, remember?
We just don't have time anymore.
- Yeah, we used to hang out all the time.
- All the time.
- A whole big group of us.
KD Lang--
- It was crazy!
KD Lang, Rosie, you, I--
BOTH: Brad Pitt.
- Yeah.
- Oh, like, Benjamin Bratt, Megan Mullally, Dermot
and Catherine, and--
Oh, God so many just really fun, young, Hollywood folks.
- Yeah, back when we had time.
Yeah.
And then you were the brave one to come out
first so, good for you.
- You know--
[APPLAUSE]
- Rock stars-- us rock stars, we can away with a lot.
We--
- Yeah.
- And then you would--
every time we'd meet up after I came out--
you'd say, Yeah, yeah I'm going to do that one of these days.
I just need--
I'm working on it, I'm working on it.
- And I worked on it.
- You did!
And boy did you come out.
[APPLAUSE]
- Yeah, I did.
- Yeah, bam!
- Speaking of that, so this April--
it's so weird, that coinciding with the ending of this show,
is the 25th anniversary of my coming out
episode on my sitcom, which you were a part of.
And we have a clip of--
I think this is the very end of the show.
We have--
- It was the credits.
- Yeah, I think.
- It was really-- because the whole joke was the--
- Yeah, that I'd get certified.
- Here she is!
- OK!
Miss Morgan, I have just one question for you--
Are you gay?
- Yes, yes I am.
- And sign right there, and initial here, and initial here,
and sign here.
- Wow, I didn't know it was so complicated.
- Oh, congratulations!
[LAUGHTER]
- Susan!
- Thank you so much!
Fantastic.
[APPLAUSE]
- You have no idea, 25 years later--
I still get people going, where's my toaster?
Like I'm supposed to give toasters out
because they're gay.
- Yeah I know.
What do you remember about that, though?
- Oh my gosh, I just remember-- it was all hush-hush, for one.
It was like, you can't tell anybody.
You can't tell anybody.
And then going to the show, I remember-- one,
you gave me the most fabulous trailer to sit in--
but that everyone was there.
And it was such a huge--
I mean Oprah, Demi, everybody, everybody was involved in this.
Because it was a big cultural experience
that had never happened on television.
- Yeah.
- And it was just really cool to be a part of it.
- Yeah.
It was an electric feeling in that room, it was really great.
Hey, I want to talk about your new album.
And I can't wait for everybody to hear your new music,
because it's new music, but it's music you've--
and what does "no way out" mean?
- "One Way Out" means--
- "One Way Out," sorry.
- Well, "no way" it's--
- I still can't read, but I can talk.
[LAUGHING]
- "One Way Out" is the title track.
"You can scream and you can shout,
but there's only one way out."
And really what I'm talking about is,
you've got to go inside yourself.
You've got to really-- you can't fix it out there,
you've got to fix it in here.
You've got to work on yourself.
And that's the "one way out."
[APPLAUSE]
- Amen!
And we cannot let you go without talking about your CBD line.
- You know I went through cancer, 17 years cancer free.
And that set me on a health understanding.
I wanted to be around for my kids, for everything.
And part of that is more of a holistic, natural approach.
Now people have heard of CBD, they
don't understand a lot about it--
CBD is the hemp side of cannabis.
This does not have any THC, which
is what causes the psychotropic effects, the highness
and stuff.
This has all the other stuff from the plant,
which helps with sleep.
This comes from Santa Cruz, it is made from organic.
You can get it from Etheridgeorganics.com.
It's available in 38 states, you have
to check and make sure your state is OK with CBD.
It is fantastic.
I suggest you check it out for sleep, for pain, for anxiety.
We've got five different formulas,
Etheridgeorganics.com.
- All right.
All right.
We're going to take a break.
More with Melissa after this.
Your kids-- I cannot believe-- you were saying,
how old is Bailey now?
- Bailey is 24.
She's out now-- she graduated from Columbia, now
she's getting her Master's and at the London
School of Economics.
She's going to change the world.
She's really amazing.
- That's amazing.
I remember holding her as a tiny little baby.
And now you're on TikTok, and you have twins that are 15.
- I have two, they'll be 15 next month.
So I have 15-year-olds-- so feel sorry for me right now.
Yes.
No you really-- it's funny, because now I watch commercials
and I see, Oh baby, baby.
I'm like, you don't know.
That baby is going to grow up and be a teenager.
You have no idea what you're in for.
- Yes, somehow I had the foresight of knowing that.
- You I really did, I'm a little jealous.
Little bit jealous.
- I love babies so much.
I really do, I love babies.
But I do know they grow up.
- They absolutely do.
- And what do they feel about you being on TikTok?
- Oh, they don't care.
They don't care anything about me.
They are so-- no, serious.
It's like, look, I'm a big rock star!
They're like-- [SHRUGS] they have no--
They help me sometimes, with internet stuff
like, what should I do.
They'll help me, but seriously 14-15 is so--
and they should be.
They should be just totally focused on themselves.
And whether they can finish their math or not.
- Yeah well.
Do you help them with that?
Do you know anything about--
- Oh, God.
I stopped helping them with math in second grade.
- Yeah I wouldn't be able to help them at all.
- No way.
- And you're going on a cruise, another one.
You've done this before, right?
- Yeah, this is my fourth cruise.
It's the Melissa Etheridge Cruise, you can check it out.
MelissaEtheridgeCruise.com.
But it took me--
I was like, I am not doing a cruise.
That's not rock and roll.
No way, that's for--
no way, no way, no way--
I have so much fun.
And this year, of course the cruising is a little scary,
but they're requiring vaccinations,
and everyone that gets on the boat
is going to be tested before they get on the boat.
So it will be a safe place, because that's
the last thing they want.
- And where are you going?
- Jamaica and Grand Cayman Islands.
- Fantastic.
- Yeah, lots of great music.
We're going to have Nancy Wilson, of Heart
is going to be on.
And we're going to sing some Heart songs,
and it really has got great music.
- That's great.
- They hire a lot of just really, really great, mostly
female musicians.
- Oh fantastic.
- But everyone's welcome!
Men, women, everybody.
People always think it's a gay cruise, it's not.
- So you don't have to be gay to be on the cruise.
- No you don't, I promise.
- They don't check your papers.
- There's no test for that, no.
- All right.
Hey, Melissa is going to be back later
in the show to perform for us, It's a great song.
We'll be right back.