Name: Katherine LaNasa On Being Saved By Stephen Colbert And The Long Road To Landing A Hit Show
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Welcome back, friends and neighbors, ladies and gentlemen, Romans and countrymen.

Folks, you know my next Emmy winning guest as nurse Dana on the pit, Mr. Digby.

Why'd you wait so long to come to see us?

Think maybe we could arrange for someone going care?

I just kind of want to get patched up, you know?

Buddy of mine, Dylan, knows all the angles, even works the occasional miracle.

You think maybe I could have him stop by?

Welcome to the late show, Katherine Lanas.

The first time we met, I don't know if you remember everything about it.

I came over to say hi to you at one of the parties after the Emmys.

And I came over just to say that I really enjoyed your speech.

And what do you remember about that night?

I remember asking you if you'd come on the show.

It was a whole full circle moment for me.

And I was so gobsmacked that I wasn't able to express myself that night.

So about a year before I got the pit, I was in a dark place.

And when I was growing up, if something didn't go your way, it was like, well, why'd you do it like that?

And so I had subconsciously developed this paradigm where I thought that if I just did everything perfectly, that I would insulate myself somehow from loss and bad things.

And so when I found myself in this place, I felt like a failure.

And I just had these ongoing thoughts of like, well, God, if you'd only hadn't whiffed that meeting, or why did you say that?

Or why did you use hormones to get pregnant?

Or if only I'd Started using Botox in my 30s.

And I saw that clip of you talking to Anderson Cooper that's so very famous.

And you and I, paraphrase, say that our grief and our loss is part of what makes us human, and

it allows us to understand and connect with other people.

And if we're really going to love our life, that we have to love all of it.

In the depths of my despair, I heard you.

And I started to live by this new thing, which was, sometimes you lose, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get the short end of the stick, sometimes you do it wrong.

And that life is going to bring us great beauty and great joy, but

it's also going to knock us on our ass and bring us grief and loss.

I started to lighten up, and I go on, and

all of that loss and grief and the cancer fed so beautifully into playing that role, and

I was so overwhelmed that I just felt like I whiffed everything I wanted to say, but

I had the good sense to take in all the joy and the energy that was coming from the room.

the first thing I said to my husband was telling me, whiff my speech.

And she said, honey, you just won an Emmy.

And so then at the very end of the night, you, who I did not know, came up to me, and

I said something like, we were all so moved by what you said up there.

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