All right.
Our first guest is one of our favorites.
Please welcome the lovely, the wonderful, Kristen Bell.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
So I know how hard this is because I've gone through this.
But I know you just lost your dog a few days ago.
How are you doing?
I'm OK.
It was sudden, and obviously a really big bummer.
But we got to say goodbye.
Both of my girls got to say a nice, closing goodbye where
they held her and I didn't you take her to the vet
and not let them see her.
And she was 12--
she was 14, actually.
And I still-- all I take from it is how grateful
I am to have been able to spoil her like the queen she
was for the last two years.
So many people are like--
they think senior dogs maybe aren't the best fit for them.
And I know it's hard when something dies,
and people tend to think about that, like, oh it's
going to die.
And I'm like, newsflash, everything
is going to die at some point.
I just hope that if anyone fell in love with Barbara,
that they would open their hearts
and homes to senior dogs.
Because they are-- their proclivities and getting
to know them--
it's so wonderful.
I'll carry her forever in my heart.
Yeah.
And I hope people watching, listening to this
will be inspired by that.
I think that's great.
You're just-- you're wonderful.
You and Dax are so--
I love you both.
And I love that you're both so honest.
And Dax was recently honest about that he
strayed from sobriety.
Whoopsies.
Yes.
[LAUGHTER]
Because he was sober for how many years?
16.
Wow.
And how's he doing now?
He is actually doing really great.
I mean, look, everybody's up against their own demons.
Sometimes it's anxiety and depression.
Sometimes it's substance abuse.
And the thing I love most about Dax
is A, that he was able to tell me and tell us and say
we need a different plan.
Right?
We have a plan.
If he has to take medication for any reason,
I have to administer it.
But he was like, so we need a stronger plan.
I was faltering.
And I have to do some sort of emotional work
to figure out why I wanted to use again.
One of the main reasons I love him is that he's also
addicted to growth.
He's addicted to evolving.
And he was like, I don't want to risk this family and I did.
So let's put new things in place to make sure it doesn't happen,
again.
We're going back to therapy, and I just--
I love that he's addicted to growth.
And I will continue to stand by him because he's very, very
worth it.
[APPLAUSE]
You know what?
It's interesting.
You know, I always look for the lesson and everything
that comes into my life because I think that it does come
into your life for a reason.
And I think just even you've been married for so long--
people have a tendency to get kind of into a groove or a rut
or whatever.
But the fact that you're going to therapy now because of this,
it's just going to open up a whole new chapter
and a wonderful new--
100%.
Yeah.
He's healing-- because when you were here,
when you were able to be here with me, he had had one--
it was like, a dune buggy kind of accident.
Right?
Yeah.
He shattered his hand.
He's doing fine.
I mean, his shoulder was-- on the second accident,
his shoulder was-- they put a can opener
into his shoulder, Ellen.
I mean, it is--
I saw the pictures from the surgery.
There is a straight up can opener
holding his shoulder together.
His hands--
That's helpful.
--I guess are still hands, though I
will say he's net zero for knuckles
but they're in different places.
They're all scattywampus.
he lost a knuckle in the first accident,
and then it started poking out right there.
You can see on the video.
And then he lost another one and it came down a little bit.
So, I mean, he's got the right amount of knuckles.
They're just not in the right places.
[LAUGHTER]
Right.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to--
It's not bad.
I'm going to have to go to therapy
now, just after seeing that.
[LAUGHTER]
I'm so sorry.
That's what that's done to me.
Well, I'm happy that he's healing well.
I saw a picture this morning--
what's happening with your girls making their own breakfast?
I don't think it's going well, personally.
I'm trying so hard.
First of all, OK, I've been trying
to get them to make their own breakfast because one
of the things I've been doing in COVID
is sleeping in a little bit later.
Right?
Why not?
Yeah.
I know they're not going to use the stove.
They know the rules.
The problem is we haven't had enough discussion
about the colors on the plate.
They were like, but we have a red color.
I'm like, ketchup is not a vegetable.
[LAUGHTER]
And if you go back to the other one,
sadly at the other picture, one of those plates is not a plate.
It's a dog bowl lid.
I see that.
Look, we're working on it is the point.
But I'm not ready to give up sleeping in a half-an-hour
later than them.
And, really, they just need calories.
Right?
Yeah.
[APPLAUSE]
You'll show them.
Hey, Kristen, we have to take a break
and do some commercials here.
They're very, very entertaining ones,
so people will want to watch the commercials.
And then we'll continue the entertainment
after the commercials are over.
We'll be back.
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