It is a great honor.
I am such a big fan of the rescue work that you do.
She is a hero, everybody.
Well--
You are.
I love animals.
I am very big into dog rescue.
Cat rescue, I have tried it.
It's not really for me.
OK.
I rescued a cat about a month ago.
I found it, brought it inside, gave it milk, food.
I actually put it on social media, found a home for it.
That's--
Yeah!
That's good.
You rescued it.
I did rescue it.
And then my neighbor knocked on my door and was like,
did you just put my cat on Instagram?
My god.
Stray cats are sometimes just people's cats--
Yes.
--that are just like--
Right.
--out, running errands--
Right.
--and stuff.
You didn't think to ask anyone in the neighborhood
if it was their cat first?
No, I wouldn't-- I can't talk to my neighbors,
because they're crazy cat people.
I see.
I understand.
But dog rescue, I can do.
Did you rescue a dog recently?
I have five dogs, five rescue dogs.
Three of them-- thank you--
I have found on the streets.
Oh, yes.
There they are.
Those are three-- my three pit bulls.
You found them on the street?
I found-- the two on the right, I found on the streets--
because they're all over LA.
I mean, they're everywhere.
And I feel nobody ever--
Do you have a train that goes through your backyard?
Is that-- is that a tr--
I live in Knott's Berry Farm.
Wow.
That's actually not my backyard--
OK.
--but I wish it was.
Oh, good.
All right.
So I end up finding dogs everywhere in LA.
There's a stray dog problem.
Yes.
I mean, they're all over the place.
Yes, especially pit bulls.
Especially pit bulls.
And about two weeks ago, I was at this huge intersection
in LA.
It's called Hollywood and Highland.
It's basically Times Square.
It's like 10 different lanes of traffic.
And I see a dog in the middle of the intersection,
and nobody's stopping.
Nobody's stopping, so I pull over.
I get out, of course, because I'm a hero.
And I have to, like, scream at people to stop driving.
Because they almost kill it.
Like, three times, people are driving past, so I get out.
I stop all the lanes of traffic.
It's like whack-a-mole.
You have to stop one lane, get them to--
Yeah.
--finally--
You need a whistle.
(LAUGHING) That's right.
Yeah.
I get everybody to stop.
I get closer to the dog, and I see
that it's a little tiny puppy.
I get even closer to it, and I see
that this little, tiny puppy is a trash bag.
But I had been such a jerk to everybody that I couldn't--
Oh, my god.
So you scooped it up?
I had to--
I just had to lean in, scoop up this little trash bag.
Yeah.
If you rescue enough dogs, it turns
into an anti-littering initiative, basically.
Because you just start seeing dogs everywhere.
You get so paranoid, you know?
That's hilarious.
Yeah.
I actually tried to get a coyote in my car.
I thought it-- no one was stopping
for this dog in the road, and I was equally unhappy.
And I opened the door, and I'm calling it.
And it looked bad.
It looked like it had been on the street--
Skinny.
--for a long time.
And it wouldn't-- it ran away from me.
And I get home and someone said, hey,
be careful, because there's a rabid coyote out there loose.
And I'm like, I almost had that in my car.
Almost got it.
So you were here for when the book came out.
Yes.
And now, it is in audio book.
And I'm back to promote the audio book, which--
I like it.
--I think the reason it is worth promoting the fact
that it's an audio book is because I was very inspired
and moved by the Me Too movement to talk
about sexual assault in my past.
I wasn't ready to talk about it publicly,
because, you know, in our culture,
sexual assault survivors are often shamed.
You feel embarrassed.
I personally couldn't talk about it.
So I chose to write about it.
But then I went in to record my audio book
and I realized, like, (GASPING) oh, I
have to talk about this for the first time,
and I had never done that before.
So I am proud that that is in the audio book.
Was it very emotional?
Because when you talk, it's a very different thing
when you say the things.
Yes, that's right.
And I had never verbalized it before,
and I found myself kind of--
I'm even stuttering now, like making jokes and trying
to squirm out of the truth of it.
But talking about it in the audio book
was the first time I was really able to say it out loud
and have it kind of crystallize that I'm a survivor.
I don't like to think of myself that way,
but that doesn't mean you're weak.
That doesn't mean you failed.
That actually means you are way stronger
than you thought you were.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
Good for you.