Congratulations.
You are a new mom as well.
You've got a lot of good things going on in your life.
And she's Haley, right?
Haley.
And she is a year?
She's going to be a year soon.
She's knocking on the door of a year.
But it was so funny.
I was 52, and I had thought about having
kids for a long, long time.
But one day I was sitting with my boyfriend,
and I said to him, "I'm going to have
to talk to you about something, because I can't push it down
anymore, push it away."
I said, "Don't answer now.
Take a day, take a week, take some time," I said.
"But I want to talk to you about this."
And he said, "OK, like, what is it?"
And I said, "I would like to explore adoption with you."
Keep in mind, he has a daughter who's in law school.
He's a guy who's about to turn 60.
And he looked at me, and he said, "I don't need a day."
[AUDIENCE AWWS]
Right then.
Wow.
I know.
It totally changed-- and I couldn't believe,
and I knew I had chosen the right man.
[AUDIENCE AWWS]
And then, I ended up--
I still remember the day I was sitting
in my office waiting for the moment
that you get a phone call.
And I was sitting in my office waiting for the adoption agency
to let me know what was going on, and I saw a text.
And it said, "Ashley Project."
I called it, "The Project" so I didn't mess it up and tell
everyone what I was doing.
And she texted, "Call me."
I was sitting in my office doing some FaceTime thing.
I turned off the FaceTime, I stopped for a minute,
I looked at the clock, and I wrote down 11:54 AM.
[CLEARS THROAT] I knew that that was the minute it was changing.
I just felt it.
And I dialed the number, and she answered the phone.
And she said, "She's here."
Wow.
[APPLAUSE]
She's here.
She's here!
That's so cool!
That's amazing.
Right?
I would take my worst day, the day when everything's
falling apart since Haley, over my favorite day before.
Really?
Yeah.
She's changed everything.
That's good to know, because it would be bad
if it was the other way.
I made-- and I'm here, Ellen, to tell you, I made a big mistake.
[LAUGHTER]
Why did I do it?
Does anyone here want a baby?
What if it went that way?
[LAUGHTER]
(LAUGHING) Oh my God.
So she's a year, and she's walking.
And--
I mean, one day, seriously, she took a nap, she woke up,
and she started walking.
I didn't even know when it happened, or how it happened.
[AUDIENCE AWWS]
Yeah.
She was like, "OK, bye."
And then that was it.
She just was toddling around.
Wow.
You take a nap, they wake up, and the Frankenstein
walks go out.
[LAUGHTER]
Yeah, I would correct out soon, because you
don't want her to continue that her whole life.
Just you have not walked her anything, have you?
You can't just let her walk around like that.
[LAUGHTER]
All right.
So you have a new job, you have--
and so, did you have any idea that they were
going to offer that to you?
Well, after everything went down,
they asked me to fill in for the rest of that week.
And I said, "Sure."
And then the next week, they said, "Look,
we're sorting things out.
Could you fill in for the next week?"
And I said, "OK."
And then the third week came.
And it was never a real "Hey, we want to offer you something."
They sort of said, "We think this is working.
Do you think it's working?
Do you think this is something we should try?"
It was very, I think, organic and real.
It didn't feel like we're calling you, here's a moment.
It just sort of merged into a job, I think.
Yeah.
Did sign a contract, so I am doing it.
You're really doing it.
I'm really doing it.
But I don't think it was such a formal ask.
It just sort of--
Because if it looks right, it feels right,
it's doing very well.
The ratings are great, so congratulations.
Thank you.
So obviously, there's a difference.
[APPLAUSE]
Do you miss the drinking with Kathie Lee?
Do you?
Or do you sneak it in something else?
Because to go cold turkey like that, to stop drinking
as much as you were, must be--
I don't know how they gave you a baby.
I mean--
[LAUGHTER]
By the way, I still do the show with Kath
at 10:00, so I can still have--
I still start--
You just wait.
Yeah.
I just take my time at the breaks.
Yeah.
God, that's-- because that's a lot to all of a sudden just
drop that habit, huh?
[LAUGHTER]
(LAUGHING) "I don't know how they gave you a baby."
That's my favorite line so far.
Hi, I'm Andy.
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Like videos of me getting scared, or saying
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[SCREAMS]
[BLEEP]
God [BLEEP]