man you are every time I run into you well usually you’re interviewing me but every time I run into you you look younger I don’t know what like you’re like Benjamin Button it’s like it’s like crazy every time you walk in first of all it’s all the weight I’ve lost cuz I’ve lost almost two people I I have lost a lot as well I see yeah I’m doing that wonderful shot that works for folks who need some help and it’s been really good for me no mine is a different one than people assume but I I ended up having to do that too cuz my my blood

work got so bad and and it’s great for people like us who have you know issues do you know what’s funny okay I didn’t plan on talking about this but is I didn’t see it no you don’t no no you don’t ever see it like I saw we did this show for my birthday at the Basco and this is the biggest joke in my Camp because we were watching it back and I paid to have it like taped I was going to release I was doing all these things and then my doctor chased me for like two years and I was like no I’m afraid of it I already have thyroid problems I

was afraid and everybody thinks it’s a z it’s not it’s something else but but it’s it’s something that aids in helping break down the sugar obviously my body doesn’t do it right but it seeing yourself yeah like I I didn’t I didn’t see it I literally I was watching it we were in my house in New York like watching it to like I was going to release it and and then all of a sudden I I paused it and I was like who the is that yeah I swear to God it it sounds insane but like I I made a movie and the woman thought I was wearing a fat suit

oh my God yes she said yes I did a a film called till uh last year about and and she said and you know who is good but that fat suit is terrible and I was indignant I was like this is not a fat suit this is me and then I saw you see it and you’re like what she’s about to die of a heart attack thought well I thought well yeah it does look like I was I’m talking about me well see we survived both of those things it’s kind of it’s kind of incredible though because it’s it’s like a it’s a weird thing how um I guess I don’t know how to

describe it but you I I never saw that I was never insecure about it I was never I was happy you know people are like oh she must have not been happy I was like no I was happy I was like I just did not see that no listen if you’re not rolling over on somebody they’re not going to nobody you yeah you know I’m going be real with you I was riding high with someone and I did not know well see that’s the beauty see I rolled over on and thought oh did I just press my own pants I mean that’s how I was 300 lb it’s shocking I was I was like my

heaviest I was like 203 yeah and I’m 53 and a half yeah why yeah yeah so I was I was do my heav but it’s funny though because people assume oh she must have been miserable or depressed whatever and I was like no I was not I was not listen when you’re living your life I had no idea no you’re living your life and you’re doing what you need to do and that’s the last thing you’re thinking about because you got other stuff on your mind yeah I just maybe should have though cuz I watched that show and I was like she is any second now going to die

when you find when you realize it you go well damn yeah and everyone says well I thought you knew you know cuz you say to people did I always look like no no that’s I looked at my I looked at my manager who’s known me for like over 15 years and I literally looked over her and I was like did you what and she was like I don’t I’m kind of as shocked as you and I think because your people are with you the whole time so it’s gradual you don’t even realize right it’s gradual yeah anyway you look wonderful and I’m glad you feel wonderful um so

wait I heard we have something else in common I am obsessed with real EST I call it real estate porn yes yeah yes people watch normal porn I know I love real estate I love I will look I’m not even looking to buy no no it’s just nice to know what’s out there it just wonderful to dream yeah and like look at this Chateau I don’t need this but it’s nice yeah yeah yeah I I like that yeah do you do that all the time most time mine is literally almost every night it’s called addiction it is okay I’m so glad to hear you said that no I I

just love the idea because the last I look at these places and I think that’s the last place they expect to see me it makes it more fun yes it makes it much more fun yeah you know in different I love nesting I love all of it um what you sang in the original Sister Act um which is just embedded in me those movies um so I have a question though cuz there’s so great in it and in so many things did you grow up in a musical family were there my you know my mom loved to sing and I don’t think she ever thought she would be a singer but she

loved to sing so she would sing standards you know who can I turn to uh uh world on a Str just all these wonderful songs and she loved Ella so I have I have the groove but you know it’s not I I am able to mimic because I’m not a singer I can mimic what I need to do but yeah to do what you do to be able to do what you do to me is spectacular because your ability yeah well thank you it’s a it’s a it’s a thing when you think about people using their voices and and whether they’re singing to God or they’re singing to their boyfriend or

they’re singing to whomever there’s just something beautiful that happens when people are singing and I just I I I loved being around people who saying so of course I’ve done two or three musicals I had no business doing them but I liked it yeah but it’s it’s it’s wonderful music does like and even I do feel like it’s a blessing we’re going to touch on Grief later because we’re going to talk about your book but like for for me grief is not always death it’s also just major loss like you know and and for me music was such a vessel for me

for that and I just and I’m going to talk to you later about that too like dealing with grief and like but music like you’re saying that there’s nothing it’s such a blessing like that’s my my biggest fear is well something happened to my children but like for me personally it’s more like if I lost my voice it’s not because I want to make money off of it or anything like that it’s that it’s my it’s my voice it’s my it’s my like actual emotional voice it’s my everything like and it’s how I release and it’s such a beautiful thing

to experience and feel and just watching you talk about it you’re glowing it’s an amazing thing it’s has to feel the same when you’re in a scene and you’re just feel like you’re killing it and you’re just in you’re in it you know what I’m saying especially in like an emotional I wish I could tell you that I was that deep I love I it for me I know this is going to sound terrible but for me it is if you say give me uh this person then it it slips in and it it’s natural to me the mimic thing yeah I’m I am a mimic that’s what

I’m because I’m dyslexic so I had to learn so I had to learn how to do a lot of stuff knowledge and to be able to explain to people why I couldn’t do it this way but I could explain this way I could show them yeah I think there’s a lady standing there with a mic she she just she’s a big fan standing up she’s she’s waiting she’s going to toss she’s like she’s like I just s a really big I just stand in your presence whoopy um no all right it’s time for a few commercials Pat is taking things over hi Kelly and whoopy I know you’re a proud

grandma great grandma me too I have eight grandkids and seven Great grandkids who call me Grammy the great but they’re even greater stay here Kelly has more with whoopy after this our new book is out now it’s called B PES My Mother My Brother and Me I missed it I’m sorry you you trying to work and I missed the band when I came out the band is amazing sorry I know I’m very lucky I I literally was like I won’t do the show without my band like I was like cuz I’m so used to doing my job in a different sense than they’re my family as well so

it’s like ah if we somehow incorporate still doing music and so they’ve been with me the whole time doing the show um well I want to come back to your book let’s talk about your book so it’s called bits and pieces My Mother My Brother and Me was it hard to kind of revisit stuff or was it kind of a beautiful thing to kind of go back to those memories I don’t know yet okay answer you know and because I I don’t know what I thought was going to happen like once I wrote it but I I I think it’s a very different thing than I than

I assumed I didn’t I didn’t know if people would really care but I knew that some people over the years have said to me you don’t talk much about your family you know and I said well this you know it’ll come one day but I I knew I had to wait until every everybody was gone yeah before I could really talk about it and then of course everybody is gone and then I can’t remember anything I can’t remember what the date was but I you know I remember the things that happened but I couldn’t tell you and all this happened in 1963 I I have no idea cuz my

brain is just too many things too many things I’ve done to this poor brain yeah um but your your brother was your driver but I heard that you had to kind of convince him to go into that he said No at first right well he did you know he was so I was shooting a movie in Alabama there’s my big bro yeah yeah um shouldn’t moving in in Alabama and I said dude are you going to stay down here cuz we had down in in Montgomery and I was like you you got to come you come on you up in New York come on man let’s go yeah and he’s like no no

you know I’m taking care of business I and then he hung out a little bit with me and he said can I go yeah and I was like yeah you can yeah you can and so off we went my brother became my driver and one of the funniest people still in my world he just would make me laugh he was silly and love that and great and women loved him yeah hey so when my this is so terrible but I have to tell you when my brother passed we had uh he lived in Berkeley but he because he loved to drive cross country all the time we had four different wakes

not really wakes but four memorials for him and at each one of those memorials oh no two or three women would find me and say oh you know so I don’t know if you know this oh my God I love you right now Clyde and I were special we had a relation we had something special wow I you know yeah wow I’m sorry to this is such a unique story 12 minutes later on the other side of the room comes another one saying I don’t know if you know but cled I really close and he we were going to move in together and it wasn’t did a part did a part of you want

to be like no you weren’t I I I I thought don’t no don’t say anything because clearly that woman does not know that woman oh wow and as I’m thinking this comes another oh my gosh and says you know we on he was busy this happened in every state look that we it was his gift that’s my brother yeah it his gift handsome so you ended up introducing them to Marlon Brando so how did that go so I I get a phone call from my my agent who says Marlon Brando Marlon Brandon wants to speak to you I said yeah okay tell him to call me

yeah the phone rangs I picked out say hello whoopy who’s this this Marin didn’t they tell you I was going to go yeah yeah but I I thought they were kidding thought they were full of it yeah you know he says I I really want to talk to you I I think we should sit down and talk and so I said well I’d love to you know let you you let me know so we decide we’re going to do it on Thursday and you’re going to come and I’m going to come to you and it’s going to be great click okay I’m down in the bottom of my Gully and I hear a piano playing in my

house now I know my mom’s not home my brother’s not home the cleaning lady I know can’t play the piano so I’m thinking is what is going on on so I go all the way up from the Gully all the way and I get a little baseball bat little Louisville Slugger yeah like this ready and I do this and M and Brando he broke into your house and playing piano he was sitting at the piano playing something and I said M BR he said we be goldber I said I I how did you get in he said the gate was open and I said I I thought we were meeting

later like remember that that we said Thursday and he said yes but then I thought about it and I thought I’d like to talk to you today so I just popped over so he rolled over and now he and I are sitting and talking and I really want to talk to him about actors and all kinds of stuff and he’s talking about all the things said he would like to see get done and how we can work together uh to to make magic in the world and my mother comes in so I’m going to act this out for you I’m my mother okay oh I Ma I want you to meet Maron

Brando Marlin is my mother she goes oh Mr Brando so pleased to meet you and I’m thinking who was this all of a sudden just very St I mean it was like her hair grew it was like she just she was transformed it was insane so they’re talking and then she finally says to him now Mr BR I’m going to leave you with Karen or Whoopi and I’m like you know and she says Karen I’ll see you later won’t I won’t I shall we I was like are we playing with tennis whites what is going we so now about an hour later comes my brother I love

family here I come Clyde Mar and Brando’s in the room okay Clyde Mar Maron gets up does this and they do a hand thing and it’s like you [Music] know and I’m thinking first how the hell is mar and brand don’t know how to do all this and they talk and they talk about all this other stuff and he’s says yo sis I’m I’m going to go upstairs now Marin you cool he’s very comfortable Marin’s like I’m cool and I’m thinking who are these people won I is my favorite part yeah won’t I see you later won’t I won’t I I I I have the

most wonderful life yeah remarkable crazy things and and maybe one day I’ll I’ll write about those things but the up until this point and and being able to give my mother this magical time and my brother a magical time because we grew up in the projects you know that I we grew up without money and it’s the same thing for me and my family we get to do these incredible things and be able to share them is the only thing that matters is that great yeah it doesn’t even matter it’s you’re lonely if you’re didn’t it

by yourself so it’s amaz we I just took my family on a trip and it’s like it’s one of those things where it’s like It’s Only Magical because yeah one of us made it out one of us made it out we made it like let’s all enjoy it yes yeah yeah it’s a beautiful thing to be able to do yeah everybody give it up one more time for whoy over book this and pieces My Mother My Brother and Me is out now y’all got to check it out and everyone here is going home with a copy [Music] thank you guys so much