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  • Last week, our next guest announced

  • that she has battled COVID-19.

  • Please welcome my friend, Pink.

  • Hi, Pink.

  • Hi.

  • How are you?

  • We're doing all right.

  • We're doing OK this week.

  • I don't even know what day it is.

  • But this is a better week than the last previous ones have

  • been for our little household.

  • Jameson is two days now without a fever,

  • which is really a huge relief.

  • Wow.

  • OK, so tell me how long ago did--

  • because I was watching you post all these day 1, day 2,

  • quarantine.

  • And you were keeping busy.

  • What did you start feeling?

  • And was it you or Jameson first?

  • Or how did this happen with both of you getting sick?

  • And how did it start and when?

  • Yeah, so it started with Jameson actually.

  • And he's three, three-year-old's get sick all the time.

  • But he started with a fever March 14.

  • We've been quarantined since March 11.

  • Started with a fever for him.

  • And it would come and go.

  • And then he would have stomach pains and diarrhea and chest

  • pains and then a headache.

  • And then sore throat.

  • And it just was all over the place.

  • Every day was some new symptom.

  • And then his fever stayed.

  • It didn't go.

  • And then it started going up and up and up and up.

  • And at one point he was at 103.

  • And I'm calling my doctor, like, what do I do?

  • He's like, there's nothing to do.

  • He's three, we're not seeing this take three-year-old's out.

  • So just stay at home.

  • I'm like, OK.

  • Well, there's only so much Tylenol you want to give a kid.

  • So it was terrifying.

  • At one point, then I got sick, maybe March 16.

  • In hindsight, it all makes sense.

  • But when it's happening, it's such a weird experience

  • that you just don't put it together until after the fact,

  • or until days go by.

  • March 16 I didn't feel good, I was really tired.

  • I kind of had the chills a little bit.

  • I felt nauseous, but I never had a fever.

  • I never had what they tell you to look for.

  • Wow.

  • And then all of a sudden--

  • I've had asthma all my life.

  • And really, really bad asthma to the point

  • where sometimes I end up in the hospital.

  • But it's been years and years and--

  • maybe, if I'm 40, it's been probably 30 years since I

  • needed a nebulizer breathing treatment in the hospital

  • or anything like that.

  • And at a certain point, maybe around March 18,

  • March 19, March 20--

  • when his fever was staying and going up,

  • I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't breathe.

  • And I needed a nebulizer for the first time in 30 years.

  • And I have this inhaler that I use, a rescue inhaler.

  • And I couldn't function without it.

  • And that's when I started to get really scared.

  • Because of all the stuff, you can't help

  • but watch the news every day.

  • And I'm like, oh, my God--

  • wow, all the crazy stuff I did-- like this is it?

  • [AUDIO OUT] Like, this is the way it ends?

  • So we were able to get a test.

  • And I took that chance, and I tested myself.

  • We could get one test, so I tested myself.

  • It came back a week later, positive.

  • And I knew it.

  • I already knew it.

  • I knew that that's what it was going to say.

  • And then at one point, when he started throwing up and saying

  • that he had chest pains and that it hurt to breathe,

  • that's the point where you just kind of like--

  • OK, are we going to the hospital?

  • What are we doing right now?

  • (EMOTIONALLY) This is the scariest thing

  • I've ever, ever been through in my whole life.

  • So we were a couple of days, maybe,

  • out of trying to see if we needed to do something more.

  • But at this point, what can you do?

  • There's nothing you can do.

  • You ride it out.

  • And we started to get better.

  • And slowly, slowly, slowly-- his temperature stayed the longest.

  • But I started to feel better.

  • I stopped being nauseous.

  • I never had a fever.

  • And it really is just a roller coaster.

  • I had a sore throat.

  • First, I woke up and my sore throat

  • was on the right side of my throat.

  • Then it was on the left side of my throat the next day.

  • Then it was both sides the next day.

  • Then I couldn't breathe.

  • Then I was breathing fine, but I didn't feel--

  • there's no rhyme or reason to this.

  • And at one point, I was praying--

  • crying, praying-- and I realize how ridiculous I sounded.

  • Like, I thought they told us our kids were going to be OK.

  • We were told that our kids are going to be OK.

  • And I think when people started explaining

  • what this disease is, it was too early to be

  • able to name it completely and tell everybody

  • what to look for.

  • And I've talked to so many people that can't get tested.

  • Friends that are like, yeah, I think we were sick in February.

  • Like, oh, I think we had that.

  • I mean, I don't know.

  • I think testing is really, really important.

  • It's very controversial to people

  • that I was able to get my hands on a test.

  • I would say two things to that.

  • I would say you should be angry that I can get a test and you

  • can't.

  • But being angry at me is not going to help anything.

  • It's not going to solve the issue of the fact

  • that you can't get your hands on a test.

  • But you should be angry about that.

  • And we should work together to try and change that.

  • And number two, tell me anybody with a sick three-year-old,

  • that if they could get their hands on a test,

  • wouldn't take it.

  • And if they say that, I'm calling bullbull[BLEEP]..

  • So yes, the health care system is jacked.

  • The government is, in a way, failing us

  • by not being prepared.

  • But this is where we're at.

  • And thank God we're getting better.

  • And the first thing I wanted to do, whether I had it or not,

  • was how can I help?

  • Just like you, Ellen.

  • Everything you do is of service.

  • I mean, you make the world such a better place.

  • And so that's what the rest of us want to do.

  • And that's a huge point in all this

  • is that every single person in the world right

  • now gets to be a superhero just by staying home,

  • just by washing their hands, by buying their elderly neighbors'

  • groceries if they shouldn't be at the store.

  • Calling a loved one and making them laugh,

  • donating masks, saying a prayer for a health care worker--

  • every single person is vulnerable

  • and will be impacted by this virus.

  • And shouldn't we figure out a way

  • to get together and make it better for each other

  • instead of fight each other?

  • I don't know.

  • These are all the thoughts I've had.

  • I've had a lot of time to think.

  • I am-- you know, you're my pal.

  • And when I heard that you were sick,

  • it made me so scared and so sad--

  • of course, anybody who gets sick.

  • But then there is this beauty that you get to speak to us.

  • And it's just like when everybody heard

  • that Tom and Rita got sick.

  • When we know somebody and there's a face to it,

  • somehow we listen more.

  • And you get to have this voice.

  • And you get to share with everybody, hey,

  • it happens to anybody.

  • And y'all had been isolated long before everybody even really

  • was told to stay in.

  • And I had asked you how you thought you got it,

  • and you have no idea.

  • And then Carey didn't get it.

  • Willow didn't get it.

  • Did you isolate--

  • Well, that the thing.

  • There's four of us--

  • yeah.

  • There's four of us living in this house.

  • Jameson gets it the worst.

  • He's three.

  • I get it second worst.

  • I have asthma.

  • I'm 40.

  • I'm fit as a fiddle.

  • And I don't really know what that means, but it's a saying.

  • And then Willow and Carey are walking around the house

  • like it's a normal day, no symptoms whatsoever.

  • So yeah, you're right.

  • It hits super-real.

  • And it's affecting not just people above 65 years old.

  • And the social distancing is helping.

  • It's working.

  • And we have to keep doing it.

  • Yeah.

  • All right, we're going to take a break.

  • And more with the amazing Pink, who--

  • I think you cut your own hair.

  • And I want to talk about it.

  • We'll be back.

  • OK, let's talk about-- everybody is

  • panicked about so many things.

  • But one of the most important things

  • that people are talking about is how do we cut our own hair?

  • So what did you--

  • I have a feeling you have cut your own hair before though.

  • I used to do my own hair.

  • But that was a long time ago.

  • I don't think I ever cut--

  • I mean, I've shaved my head many, many times.

  • But I don't think I've ever cut my own hair.

  • But I don't know.

  • I was drinking a lot.

  • And I was feeling really brave, and Carey

  • had clippers in the bathroom.

  • And come to think of it, I don't know

  • what those Clippers are for.

  • I don't know if I should have used them at all.

  • But in my head, I thought--

  • oh, well, it'll just taper nicely.

  • And then I figured out who I look like now.

  • Tell me I--

  • Who?

  • Have you seen Vikings?

  • No.

  • Oh.

  • There's this son that doesn't have the use of his legs.

  • I think that I look like him.

  • All right, well, now I'm going to watch the show just to see,

  • because he must be a handsome young man.

  • So you cut your own hair.

  • Carey cut his own hair.

  • How did his turn out?

  • His turned out great.

  • He looks like-- he looks great.

  • I think mine's getting there.

  • But I just didn't realize that I didn't have a guard on.

  • So it just went from this to just bald.

  • And so I thought oh, God.

  • Well, that's not the taper that I was looking for.

  • So I just took it all the way back and down on both sides.

  • So now I feel like I have--

  • I like it.

  • --a mullet, which who cares?

  • I did my nails today.

  • That's something.

  • You look lovely.

  • Now, is this your natural hair color or did you dye it darker?

  • This is my natural hair color--

  • Really?

  • --which was a shock to me.

  • Yes, I had no idea that this was what was

  • happening underneath it all.

  • Mine is pretty-- yeah.

  • When I had to--

  • I did a few bad color situations, which

  • I'm sure you can relate to.

  • Because the more you color your hair light,

  • light blonde, the more it falls out or off.

  • So I had to shave my hair completely last summer,

  • because it was so damaged.

  • Really?

  • And my hair-- yeah.

  • Last summer my hair was completely shaved.

  • And I was hoping it was gray, so that it

  • would look kind of light.

  • And I was just going to leave it.

  • But it's not.

  • It's just dark like that.

  • So that's what my hair's going to look like.

  • It was a shocker.

  • All right, we are back with my friend, Pink.

  • You did an amazing thing.

  • You donated a million dollars.

  • You did half a million dollars to a hospital in Philadelphia,

  • right?

  • Mm-hmm.

  • My mom worked there for 18 years.

  • And it's an inner city.

  • It's north Philly.

  • And they don't have a lot of resources or a lot of ways

  • to have donations like that.

  • So it's meant a lot to my mom and to a lot of her friends

  • that still work there.

  • Apparently they were playing my music and dancing around.

  • And that's really fun.

  • But yeah, I mean, we're all trying

  • to figure out ways to help.

  • And there's a lot more that needs to be done.

  • And I was on a call with some doctors

  • today that was really fascinating.

  • And her main point was that testing matters

  • for containment.

  • And elections matter for leadership.

  • And our health care workers are the real heroes,

  • and doctors and scientists.

  • And having access to health care matters.

  • And loving ourselves and each other

  • and taking care of our mental health matters.

  • And 10 years from now, we have an opportunity

  • that we could look back and change maybe started

  • because of this.

  • So that's what makes me hopeful.

  • Yep.

  • I think that that's what we have to have right now.

  • We have to have hope.

  • And as everyone says, this too shall pass.

  • And it will.

  • I love you.

  • Thank you for everything you're doing.

  • And I'll talk to you soon.

  • OK, love you.

  • Hi, I'm Andy.

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  • if you're into that sort of thing.

  • Oh, [BLEEP]!

  • God[BLEEP]!

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