I love my fans because y'alls tell me about the most amazing
people.
This is a letter that I received about someone
who is in my audience today.
"Dear Ellen, I want to tell you about the most
kind hearted person I know".
Everybody's like, oh, that's me.
"She's a true angel on earth.
She works full time for the city of Toronto.
In her spare time, she runs a program
that helps at risk youth.
Whether she's feeding the homeless
or helping families in need, she gives so much
to everyone she meets.
You'd never know this mom of two was struggling because she's
always so positive.
Ellen, you are her greatest inspiration.
Just saying hello would mean the world to her".
So, Kimya, hello.
Hi.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hi.
How are you?
I'm good.
Hi, Kimya.
How are you?
I'm OK.
Yeah?
OK, good.
You
Thought you were just here to enjoy the show?
I did think that.
At what point did you go like, that's me, that's me?
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
And then Toronto, yeah, probably.
Give away.
So, hi.
Hi.
OK.
Whoo.
So you're a fan of the show.
I'm a big fan of your show.
I'm a big fan of you.
Thank you.
How long have you been watching?
I have been watching probably since you
started having your own show.
When you were on Oprah.
And then you had the Ellen Show.
And the you started your talk show.
And I watched you on Ellen Tube with the kids.
Oh, wow.
You are a fan.
I am a fan.
I like it.
So you're a mom of two.
Tell me about your kids.
My daughter, [? Kaliah, ?] my older daughter, she's 13.
And she's awesome.
And then I have a younger daughter named Abigail.
She just turned 11.
She was actually fostered by my parents.
And I just love her so much I adopted her
from the foster care system in Toronto where I live.
Well, isn't she a lucky girl.
That's great.
All right.
So I love what you're doing for the community.
Tell everybody about the program.
OK, so my program's called Power Filled Youth.
And it's meant to empower children
that are in underserved communities or at risk
and let them know that their best self is enough.
Like, the things that you say all the time.
Just to be kind and help in their community.
And that they can achieve anything.
That's so important.
I keep saying it, that schools have
to have a course like that to teach
kids to believe in themselves and to have compassion
for others.
And that really needs to be taught.
So good for you.
All right, so what activities do you do with the kids?
We do community outreach.
So we do Bless the Homeless, where
we make food kits and care kits for the homeless people
in Toronto, where it's actually a lot colder than LA
in the winter.
We also do paint night with seniors at the local seniors
homes.
So we have a relationship with them and we go every month.
And next month we have Zion's Journey,
which is a walkathon to raise funds to get gifts
for children that are going to be
in the hospital for the holidays.
You're amazing.
All right, so--
Oh my god, um.
So and what's amazing is you do all these activities.
And everything you come up with, you pay for on your own.
This is all coming out of your pocket.
It is.
Even though you're not wealthy and just can do that,
you just do it because you want to help others.
Yes.
I just do it because I think that it's important
and it doesn't really exist that much
in my community or anywhere.
So I just do it and it happens with me.
I don't really have Ellen money, but I
have a kind of Ellen heart.
So I do the best that I can and it always seems to work out.
You're amazing.
Well, that's why I love getting letters from people telling me,
because if you weren't here, you know, only people around you
know what you're doing.
And I want to shine a light on you.
I want people watching this to say,
look what she's doing all by herself.
Look at if we all do this, just grassroots style, what
we can do.
What we can accomplish.
So I know you've applied to be a contestant on Game
of Games many, many times.
Many, many times.
All right, so what we're going to do
is, we're going to give you-- we're going to have you play
a game today and we'll see if you'll
win a prize, because that's what you want to do is win a prize.
I do.
All right, so we'll play a game and we'll see if you'll win.
OK.
All right, we'll be back.
OK.
We are back with Kimya.
And Kimya is going to play Hot Hands.
Hot Hands.
And your category is musicians.
OK, let's go.
All right.
Here's how it works.
You can name 15 musicians in 30 seconds.
OK.
All right, so it's going to go really, really fast.
But if you can name all 15 in 30 seconds,
you're going to win $5,000.
All right?
OK.
All right, get your Hot Hands ready.
OK.
Go.
Beyonce.
Britney Spears.
Taylor Swift.
Justin Timberlake.
Bruno Mars.
Madonna.
Lady Gaga.
Nicki Minaj.
Mariah Carey.
Adele.
Chance the Rapper.
Demi Lovato.
Yes!
[CROWD CHEERING]
That was great.
I told you I was [INAUDIBLE].
All right.
I know.
All right, so here's the thing.
You won $5,000 dollars, but I really like you a lot.
So I'm going round it up to $10,000 dollars.
Oh, god.
I'm winning in life.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're winning.
OK.
All right, I like you so much, that's not
enough because my friends at Shutterfly,
I told them about you and they said, we love her.
I said, I love her too.
And I said, what if we give her a brand new 2019 Honda Pilot?
And they said, OK.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh my god.
Yay!
We'll be right back.