When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.
I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks.
They had asked for me because they wanted a younger girl, but Mum asked if she could bring Kylie along because she didn't want there to be any jealously.
The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.
I often think about what my replacement will do after I'm fired. She won't have emotional commitments to decisions that I already regret.
I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.