Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2: So here in misspelling. I have periodically done episodes titled
Speaker 2: Secrets of the Manner, but recently in the news currently
Speaker 2: the Manor, I guess it's not called the Manner anymore.
Speaker 2: It just sold. It just sold again to a new
Speaker 2: owner that is re titling it to five nine four.
Speaker 2: I guess that's the modern version because the address is
Speaker 2: five nine four South Mapleton Drive, and so it's now
Speaker 2: no longer going to be called the Manner. It's going
Speaker 2: to be called five nine four. So when news broke
Speaker 2: of the Manner selling, a lot of people sent me
Speaker 2: the article and they're like, have you seen this? And
Speaker 2: I did hear about it, but I don't know. There
Speaker 2: was something that kept me from like clicking on this article,
Speaker 2: and it was clickbait for me too, because I wanted
Speaker 2: to know the details. I'm not gonna lie that is,
Speaker 2: you know what people like think of my childhood home,
Speaker 2: even though I technically only lived there for like two years,
Speaker 2: but still it was something my mom created, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's part of my history. So obviously I have connections
Speaker 2: to it, but I yeah, I don't know. I couldn't
Speaker 2: open the article and I didn't even know why. I
Speaker 2: was just like in my head, like, you know, I
Speaker 2: had taken my kids on vacation. I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: focusing on my kids, and like, you know, I'm not
Speaker 2: looking online as much, and I'm not on Instagram and
Speaker 2: I'm not you know, all that stuff. But still at
Speaker 2: all the time in the world to click on every
Speaker 2: single article out there about Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson
Speaker 2: fasting it with those two, like, oh my gosh, the
Speaker 2: new IT couple. I am just like can't get enough
Speaker 2: of them, just like everybody else. But that's like a
Speaker 2: happy story, right, That's like she's like the comeback queen
Speaker 2: and he finally, you know, found love again and they
Speaker 2: both have been through so much personally and professionally and
Speaker 2: now they deserve This is what everyone's saying. And so
Speaker 2: that's a magical, happy ending and that's something we all
Speaker 2: hope to translate into our own lives. So that's something
Speaker 2: we want to see. But I never clicked on the
Speaker 2: manner because I was just like, oh, it's sold again.
Speaker 2: Keep in mind it sold once before when my mom
Speaker 2: owned it. She sold it to the Egglesteins, and I
Speaker 2: did see pictures when she redid it and made it.
Speaker 2: She kept the bones of it and didn't really change
Speaker 2: you know, the bearing wall, you know, nothing really changed
Speaker 2: to the architecture, but just totally renovate the look inside.
Speaker 2: And it was really modern. I remember seeing like black
Speaker 2: lacquered stuff and you know a lot of geometric stuff,
Speaker 2: and I was just like, oh my gosh, very different
Speaker 2: than how my mom. And my mom spent years. She
Speaker 2: designed the home, you know, with a great team and
Speaker 2: did every was involved in every aspect of the architecture.
Speaker 2: And because you know, they tore that home down to
Speaker 2: the ground, and you know, I still remember the day,
Speaker 2: like the day they started building it, and they had
Speaker 2: like a ribbon cutting ceremony and they started construction, so
Speaker 2: like the whole team and I feel like my whole
Speaker 2: family was wearing hard hats and I think I was, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was twelve, and my brother and I were there
Speaker 2: and they had this whole like ribbon cutting with this huge,
Speaker 2: crazy big scissors, and my mom and dad cut it
Speaker 2: and they broke ground. Basically, I have to find those
Speaker 2: pictures somewhere. But yeah, she puts so much dedication into
Speaker 2: that home. She not only created the entire house itself,
Speaker 2: but she then flew to Europe and did extensive you
Speaker 2: know home decort design and every piece in that home
Speaker 2: and a lot of like antique old French, you know architecture.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, isn't it funny? I can talk so
Speaker 2: much about this world, but I'm like, actually finding it
Speaker 2: hard to find my words when it's my own home,
Speaker 2: my family's home. I don't know. I think there's like
Speaker 2: some locked memories there. That not bad, it's just obviously
Speaker 2: it was a gorgeous house and very beautiful pieces in
Speaker 2: each room, but it definitely didn't have the heart of
Speaker 2: when I grew up. You know, we were a family
Speaker 2: of four, and I guess going into a house that big,
Speaker 2: while we tried to keep it and my mom did
Speaker 2: a great job as warm as it could feel, family
Speaker 2: as it could feel. She did a great job executing that.
Speaker 2: But in a home that is what noted is fifty
Speaker 2: six thousand square feet, I think it's just impractical to
Speaker 2: think that it could ever hold the charm and spacing
Speaker 2: of an intimate family home. And I often reflect on,
Speaker 2: you know, the rooms we primarily used as a family
Speaker 2: of four were the kitchen, my mom's office, which was
Speaker 2: like our family office. My dad has owned separate working office,
Speaker 2: but my family office, the kitchen, my parents' bedroom, the
Speaker 2: breakfast room where we would have family dinners. Other than that,
Speaker 2: I guess the screening room, the projection room, but that
Speaker 2: got less and less as my dad got older and
Speaker 2: we were my brother and I got older and we
Speaker 2: were out with our friends, so we didn't do family
Speaker 2: screening nights as much. And yeah, like it's wild to
Speaker 2: think those are the rooms we used. In a room
Speaker 2: in a house, there was fifty six thousand square feet
Speaker 2: estimated to have. Sorry, I sorry, I have to look
Speaker 2: it up. I should know this in my brain from
Speaker 2: reading it for so long and being asked about it.
Speaker 2: It says it had fourteen bedrooms. That can't be true.
Speaker 2: I feel like there was way more anyway. Yeah, fourteen bedrooms,
Speaker 2: twenty seven baths, fifty six five hundred square feet of space. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just wild anyway, I always said, like after it
Speaker 2: was put on the market years ago, I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I wonder if I emailed the realtor
Speaker 2: and be like, hi, it's story. Spellings in my family
Speaker 2: home way back when, so anyway I could just come
Speaker 2: see it and bring my kids. When my mom was
Speaker 2: moving out, I believe, before it's sold, I had Liam
Speaker 2: and Stella and they were very little. I think they
Speaker 2: were like three and two maybe two and one baby,
Speaker 2: so they have no memory of it. But I remember
Speaker 2: Dean and I and Liam and Stella went to visit
Speaker 2: Exit before my mom, I mean she pretty much moved out,
Speaker 2: but before she put it on the market, I said,
Speaker 2: I really want my babies to be here. I think
Speaker 2: the rooms were all empty. I remember like holding baby
Speaker 2: Stella and taking her into rooms and they were like
Speaker 2: empty rooms, so taking a picture so I could like
Speaker 2: show them later, like this was Mom's room, This is
Speaker 2: you know, Grandpa Aaron and Grandma Candy's room. Like I
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know what I was thinking, but yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's like my last memory. And then my really
Speaker 2: like holding memory was my dad passing and that's where
Speaker 2: we had like his funeral gathering afterwards, was back at
Speaker 2: the Manner And so yeah, those two memories are kind
Speaker 2: of not great memory because it's like a finality, and
Speaker 2: when I draw on childhood memories, there's absolutely no connotation
Speaker 2: to that house. It's not in my heart and soul,
Speaker 2: it's not the house I grew up in. So when
Speaker 2: I dream about my childhood and we all go back
Speaker 2: in time, I never have dreams about that house. Like
Speaker 2: I'll be my adult self now, I'll even be with
Speaker 2: my kids now at their present age, but I'm back
Speaker 2: in the house I grew up in, which, for anyone
Speaker 2: that doesn't know, was on the same street so on Mapleton,
Speaker 2: but it was one to eleven North Mapleton, and it
Speaker 2: was still a very big house. But it was, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe ten thousand square feet, which is still enormous, you know,
Speaker 2: something in a lifetime, I don't think I'd ever be
Speaker 2: in a house that big, but like, it definitely was
Speaker 2: a very warm family home and I have really beautiful
Speaker 2: memories growing up there with my family. Anyway, now that
Speaker 2: I have clicked on this, so yes, so it just
Speaker 2: sold again at one hundred and ten million dollars to
Speaker 2: the head of Google, Eric Schmidt. Yeah, so the Google CEO,
Speaker 2: Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy. So I'm reading this
Speaker 2: for the first time, you guys, while I do this
Speaker 2: with you, because I haven't wanted to before. And yeah,
Speaker 2: so I'm scrolling to see what it says, and so
Speaker 2: it's saying, Oh my gosh, it seems like they're not
Speaker 2: even going to live there. It says reportedly they are
Speaker 2: planning to use the manner, which they are now relabeling
Speaker 2: is five ninety four, to host meetings and nonprofit events.
Speaker 2: They already own other properties in LA and nearby Montecito,
Speaker 2: plus London, Washington, DC, Miami Beach, New York City, San Francisco,
Speaker 2: and on Nantucket Island. Wow, that's a lot of properties. Okay,
Speaker 2: So I was wondering. It's so funny, I guess something
Speaker 2: that big. It doesn't seem like a family home. But
Speaker 2: my instinct when I heard they bought it, I was like, Oh, okay,
Speaker 2: do they have a big family Like I don't know,
Speaker 2: but I mean, I like, they're going to use it
Speaker 2: for nonprofit events, but meetings, I don't know. Kind of
Speaker 2: bums me out, just because in some form it's my
Speaker 2: dad mom's legacy. Like, my dad's not here and it
Speaker 2: was the last place I lived with him, So it's
Speaker 2: hard to think that it's going to be used for
Speaker 2: just like a meeting hall. I wonder if they'll change
Speaker 2: up anything inside. What does Eric Schmidt intend to do
Speaker 2: with the manner that he just bought. It's so hard
Speaker 2: to talk about this. I didn't even think it would
Speaker 2: be this hard to talk about. And it feels weird
Speaker 2: inside talking about it, like some like repressed block, Like
Speaker 2: I feel this is so strange. I'm talking about this
Speaker 2: and it's feeling like an elephant sitting on my chest,
Speaker 2: like maybe I have things I haven't talked about. You guys,
Speaker 2: it's really this topic is very challenging for me to
Speaker 2: talk about because if you know me, you know that
Speaker 2: I have strived my whole life and career to kind
Speaker 2: of be the anti rich girl. It was something that
Speaker 2: I was bullied really bad when I was little about
Speaker 2: my dad having money and being famous, and it's something
Speaker 2: I took on to such a degree that I actually
Speaker 2: change it, manifested in a way that it changed my
Speaker 2: trajectory in my lifetime. Look at me, I'm so savvy
Speaker 2: talking about something serious and I still managed to get
Speaker 2: my name in there. I'm sorry I distracked with comedy.
Speaker 2: It wore on me so heavily that I do feel
Speaker 2: on some level that I manifested my life staying small.
Speaker 2: Like everyone has these perceptions of who I am and
Speaker 2: what I am as defined by who my father is
Speaker 2: and his wealth. So I'm going to make a note
Speaker 2: to be the anti that my whole life and see
Speaker 2: if people like me better then And let me just
Speaker 2: tell you, like lean into what you're given and what
Speaker 2: you are, because it doesn't help to me the other way.
Speaker 2: Like anyone that's met me will say, oh, she's so nice,
Speaker 2: she's so kind, she's great. But in some way, I
Speaker 2: I'm a very intelligent woman, and I feel like I
Speaker 2: have not on purpose, but like almost like subconsciously like
Speaker 2: defeated myself or like tanked myself at times throughout my career.
Speaker 2: I think people said, you know, people would say things
Speaker 2: all the time like she's not talented, she's not And
Speaker 2: now doing a nine oh two and a rewatch that
Speaker 2: Jenny Garth and I do called nine O two one, OMG,
Speaker 2: check it out if you haven't. We are on season
Speaker 2: seven doing a rewatch. Now I watch it all back
Speaker 2: and I'm like, gosh, I moved forward in a career
Speaker 2: thinking I couldn't act, thinking I wasn't good enough, thinking
Speaker 2: that I would never have succeeded in this industry if
Speaker 2: it wasn't for my dad. I heard it so often
Speaker 2: that I actually believed it. And now I watch it
Speaker 2: back and I'm like, subjectively, I'm watching as a fan,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, Donna is really good. Taking myself out
Speaker 2: of it for a second, you guys, Tory spelling. Look,
Speaker 2: it's even hard for me to say is a very
Speaker 2: good actress. And it's like, wow, now at fifty two,
Speaker 2: my brain's like, what we have to rewire and learn this.
Speaker 2: We believed all the other stuff for so long. So anyway,
Speaker 2: going back, I think I don't even know what I
Speaker 2: was talking about. You know, I get so sidetracked. But
Speaker 2: going back, it was so ingrained in me to be
Speaker 2: the opposite. I mean, growing up, I used to go
Speaker 2: into our laundry room and I would bring my blanket
Speaker 2: and my stuffed animals, and I would get like food
Speaker 2: and drink and books and like my diary, and I
Speaker 2: would go into a cupboard in the laundry room and
Speaker 2: I'd be like, I was always very respectful, So I
Speaker 2: would never tell my parents like I hate that we
Speaker 2: have this like big house, and I hate that we
Speaker 2: have this big these big lives, and it's really hard
Speaker 2: for me. So I think keeping that repressed as a
Speaker 2: little girl at like five and six and seven and eight,
Speaker 2: and just kept going. But yeah, granted, our lifelaundry room
Speaker 2: is like was bigger than like the size of my
Speaker 2: bedroom now, but it wasn't crazy thing. But like the cupboard,
Speaker 2: it was large enough for me, as like a six
Speaker 2: year old child to fully stand up in. But I
Speaker 2: would go in there and like decorate and put stickers
Speaker 2: on one of the cupboards in the laundry room and
Speaker 2: take the rooms down and everything and be like, this
Speaker 2: is my home. This is all I want, Like I
Speaker 2: don't want this big house. And I was like, this
Speaker 2: is where I feel coziest. And keep in mind, I
Speaker 2: feel like now we're so forward thinkers. We're such forward thinkers,
Speaker 2: especially with our children about you know, therapy and you know,
Speaker 2: mental health awareness and conversations about emotions. Keep in mind,
Speaker 2: I grew up in the seventies and it was no
Speaker 2: fault to my parents, but that just wasn't really talked about.
Speaker 2: So as a child, you know, having these thoughts, it
Speaker 2: wasn't like my parents weren't talking me through stuff. But
Speaker 2: I never thought to communicate that to them. I never thought,
Speaker 2: you know, and I'm sure they didn't think to communicate
Speaker 2: it with me a child. So yeah, you can imagine
Speaker 2: if I lived in a ten thousand square foot house
Speaker 2: and was so shamed because of that that I wanted
Speaker 2: to live in a cupboard in the laundry room. Imagine
Speaker 2: what it was like when the world found out we
Speaker 2: were building a house and moving into a fifty six
Speaker 2: thousand square foot house. I think I just literally went
Speaker 2: numb inside, and I don't know, just like shut off
Speaker 2: that part of that connection with that house. And still
Speaker 2: when my kids see pictures of it online, they're like,
Speaker 2: is that the White House is that? They're like, what
Speaker 2: is that? And I'm like, that's my family home. And
Speaker 2: I still I look at it and I feel like
Speaker 2: I have no real real connection to it. But I'm
Speaker 2: sure it just lies beneath the emotions are there, and
Speaker 2: it's just so strange to see it turning over to
Speaker 2: new hands. Anyway, I always wish I could get one
Speaker 2: more walk through it, but maybe the past is better
Speaker 2: left in the past. So I wonder what they'll do
Speaker 2: to it. I wonder how they'll redecorate it. I wonder
Speaker 2: if they're well, they're having a nonprofit event I could
Speaker 2: get an invitation one day. Remember when it was it
Speaker 2: was all in the news that j Lo and Ben
Speaker 2: when they were together, they were going to possibly buy it.
Speaker 2: Do you remember this, Yeah, and they had looked at it.
Speaker 2: That would have been fun, But like, what did they
Speaker 2: need the house that size for? What does anyone need
Speaker 2: house that size for kids? I mean except between my
Speaker 2: brother and I we have seven kids as grown adults
Speaker 2: will be grandparents to multiple generations grandkids and great grandkids hopefully,
Speaker 2: and we could have used that. It could have been
Speaker 2: like I mean, honestly, I would say it should be
Speaker 2: like a bet. I always wanted it to be like
Speaker 2: a bed and breakfast that my brother and I like
Speaker 2: had together and then our kids could like stay there.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it would have been nice. I want
Speaker 2: to say it would have been nice to keep it
Speaker 2: in the family, but again, it's not something that I
Speaker 2: feel represents our family. Like my childhood home. I would
Speaker 2: love like if my brother and I still had that
Speaker 2: and keep it in the family, and because that's where
Speaker 2: all the memories are. It's so rare in life. I'm
Speaker 2: always curious about people that say, you know, the stories
Speaker 2: that people are like, Okay, later in life, like their family,
Speaker 2: they kept the family home in the family and then
Speaker 2: when people passed away, it got handed down and they
Speaker 2: kind of moved their own family in there and make
Speaker 2: new memory. I'm always curious about people who are like, oh,
Speaker 2: I still live in my family home, like my mom
Speaker 2: dad passed away and then we kept it. I'm always curious,
Speaker 2: like what happens, like because you have such memories of
Speaker 2: being a kid there, They're like, then you have to
Speaker 2: shift gears to being an adult there. I don't know.
Speaker 2: The pool house alone in that property is bigger than
Speaker 2: my own house, so that I could have easily my
Speaker 2: my five kids and I could have lived in the
Speaker 2: house alone, been very, very happy. We could have been squatters.
Speaker 2: It was on the market for a long time. I've
Speaker 2: seen horror films. What are they called froggers. Have you
Speaker 2: heard of this? No? Oh, that's right, Damn. We had
Speaker 2: so much in common till that froggers. I believe maybe
Speaker 2: this is not a real thing, Like if you have
Speaker 2: an attic space or something like people live there, they
Speaker 2: break in and live there and while you're living in
Speaker 2: the house. Nope, never am I making this up? No,
Speaker 2: but I'm saying nope, like, I don't want any part
Speaker 2: of that. What are froggers that live in your house? Frogging?
Speaker 2: It's p hrgg i g when someone secretly lives in
Speaker 2: your attic without your knowledge. Yeah. This term refers to
Speaker 2: the act of someone living in a house without the
Speaker 2: homeowner's consent or knowledge, often in hidden spaces like addicts,
Speaker 2: crawl spaces, or even basements. The term is thought to
Speaker 2: originate from the idea of a person leaping from space
Speaker 2: to space like a frog, potentially to avoid detection. So
Speaker 2: if you didn't know about it, I'd scare the shit
Speaker 2: out of everybody out there, because if you have any
Speaker 2: type of attict space or something, it could be a
Speaker 2: frogger living in it. Sorry anyway, my point being, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, if someone lived in the attic of the
Speaker 2: manor the attic was my mom had like a beauty
Speaker 2: salon up there, but not really a beauty salon. My
Speaker 2: dad would always go to the barber, but as he
Speaker 2: got older or have the barber come to him and
Speaker 2: just cut his hair in his bathroom. But she put
Speaker 2: up a salon up there with like a hair like
Speaker 2: washing bowl, everything like a stand like to like you
Speaker 2: would go to a beauty salon and you're at like
Speaker 2: a station. She put like two stations in there. One
Speaker 2: and half was like the barbershop. One was the beauty
Speaker 2: salon for her, and that was up in what you
Speaker 2: would call an attic. But literally the attic didn't look
Speaker 2: like the addict, you know, it was like pallacious, I
Speaker 2: want to say, like, oh my gosh. The square footage
Speaker 2: had to have been I mean, it's the length of
Speaker 2: the house, but it was like the third floor and
Speaker 2: our basement was in a basement. The base is where
Speaker 2: we had the bowling alley and the arcade and the
Speaker 2: doll museum and the gym and the bar and recreation room.
Speaker 2: So we technically didn't have like like in the the
Speaker 2: mechanics of the house, like you know what am I
Speaker 2: talking about, Like the air conditioning unit and the air filters.
Speaker 2: Like everything was like in the behind the scenes of
Speaker 2: the manor. So you would like push a wall in
Speaker 2: one room, which was the bowling alley, and you would
Speaker 2: go into like hallways behind the scenes where all the
Speaker 2: power stuff was and like everything that made the manner
Speaker 2: light up and have power, and then you would come
Speaker 2: down the other side in the Doll Museum, like a
Speaker 2: hidden passageway got him. I'm like creeping myself out now
Speaker 2: telling these stories. But it wasn't creepy. It was like
Speaker 2: fun and friends were really impressed, were really excited, and
Speaker 2: I was always like, oh god, no. But anyway, froggers,
Speaker 2: if you lived in an attic at the Manor, you
Speaker 2: have literally it had to have been at least ten
Speaker 2: thousand square feet or more, so you could have literally
Speaker 2: a huge home. You could have like two families lived there. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's my view on the Manor five ninety four. And
Speaker 2: my mom always had like stationery that would say like
Speaker 2: all the heads of the sorry, all the notepads. The
Speaker 2: header would say the Manor and property of the Manor
Speaker 2: like pens and everything, all that stuff that like hotels
Speaker 2: would have, but kind of we had that. That's so wild.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I wish I had some of those saved.
Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, it was pretty cool. I mean
Speaker 2: think about it. It was the size bigger than hotels anywhere.
Speaker 2: Like you had to have some like wink wink nod nod,
Speaker 2: like kind of fun gesture about like I have the
Speaker 2: biggest at the time single family residence anywhere. It's being
Speaker 2: compared to the taj Mahal on Google, Like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I feel like I read that it was bigger than
Speaker 2: the taj Ma Hall. But I could be I read
Speaker 2: that too, and my brain always trying to like apologize
Speaker 2: for growing up with wealth. I read that too, and
Speaker 2: instead of saying it was even bigger than the taj Mahll,
Speaker 2: I couldn't even say that. So I said the size
Speaker 2: of the taj Mahll. Fine, they say it was bigger.
Speaker 2: Oh what wild what a wild ride life is?
Speaker 1: Did you watch the video to see what it looks like?
Speaker 2: No, I can't open and wait to hold them.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Manor, one of the finest estates in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles is over fifty six thousand square feet.
Speaker 2: That's where I got married.
Speaker 1: The White House close that offers fourteen bedrooms twenty seven
Speaker 1: bathrooms on four point six acres all. This is on
Speaker 1: the market for one hundred and sixty five million dollars.
Speaker 1: This is the foyer of the Manor. The ceilings are
Speaker 1: thirty feet high. It has a double staircase, very grand.
Speaker 1: The chandelier has a mechanism that raises and lowers it
Speaker 1: and the staircase railing is a one continuous piece hand
Speaker 1: forged in Texas. It is legendary in the city. It
Speaker 1: is the most important entry hall by far, and it
Speaker 1: is a site to behold. The manner was built in
Speaker 1: the style of a French chateau, with many details from
Speaker 1: that period, including.
Speaker 2: The lions out front of day Lackerism flat.
Speaker 1: The manor was built on the former estate of Big Crosby.
Speaker 1: Aaron and Candy Spelling tore the house down to build
Speaker 1: their dream vision, a family home that would be cherished
Speaker 1: for them and for other generations. It took seven years
Speaker 1: and one hundred and fifty workers every day.
Speaker 2: Oh that part made me sad that he said, like
Speaker 2: their dream vision, first family home for many generations to come,
Speaker 2: that didn't happen. It looks nice. I think that's the design.
Speaker 2: Like the renovation, not renovation, but like the home deke Hoar.
Speaker 2: Inside is what the Eggosteines did before. Definitely modernized it
Speaker 2: a bit. It did. It did look a little more
Speaker 2: like Homie like cozy. The foyer was changed. The foye
Speaker 2: is exactly the way my mom built it, except it
Speaker 2: was like a brass I think the chandelier I believe
Speaker 2: is the same. My mom had that put in and
Speaker 2: it did like you could push a button and it
Speaker 2: would come down so that they could clean all the crystals.
Speaker 2: You push a button, it would raise back up because
Speaker 2: thirty feet what do you say, thirty feet dolls ceilings
Speaker 2: and thirty foot dolls. Wow. But that staircase, I remember
Speaker 2: asking her once because it was this double entryway Foye staircase,
Speaker 2: and it was so grand and it completely connected. So
Speaker 2: you would go one side of the staircase and it
Speaker 2: was like the little, you know, hallway. You would stand
Speaker 2: looking over very like Romeo and Juliet, and then you
Speaker 2: would go down the other side, so it was all
Speaker 2: one continuous staircase. And I did ask her once why
Speaker 2: such a big staircase, and she said, so when you
Speaker 2: get married one day, you can walk down that staircase.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, that's so romantic. But I
Speaker 2: did actually get married there first to my first husband,
Speaker 2: but we didn't walk down that staircase. We actually started
Speaker 2: outside and my dad was old and sick by that point,
Speaker 2: so he couldn't walk me that far. I was already
Speaker 2: walking across the whole driveway. It was a long walk,
Speaker 2: so maybe that's why we didn't come down the staircase.
Speaker 2: And also that staircase like growing up spelling like my
Speaker 2: dad his vision like Dinahs, that staircase reminded me of Dynasty,
Speaker 2: which came before the Manner, So I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I wonder if that was always the intention, like to
Speaker 2: walk down that staircase. Very very fancy. I feel like
Speaker 2: it's been so prevalent in the news about the Manner selling,
Speaker 2: and everyone has asked me how I feel about it
Speaker 2: that I just I don't know, like I said, shut
Speaker 2: down on it, and I thought, well, it's probably interesting
Speaker 2: for people to hear my thoughts on how I feel
Speaker 2: about it selling. So I decided to do this episode
Speaker 2: on it. Didn't read any of the information except that,
Speaker 2: you know, I knew the head of Google bought it
Speaker 2: until I started this podcast today, and I just wanted
Speaker 2: to be raw and kind of whatever came up. You know,
Speaker 2: me never at a loss for gab, Like I can
Speaker 2: talk and talk and talk, and like I've said, this
Speaker 2: episode might seem a little scattered, but it's because I
Speaker 2: always have something to talk about, and I could talk
Speaker 2: about anything, and I never shy away from any topic,
Speaker 2: as you guys know, and this one, as as it's
Speaker 2: unfolded right now in the last hour, been very hard
Speaker 2: for me to talk about. And like I said, it's
Speaker 2: feeling like a weight on my chest and it's feeling
Speaker 2: bringing up some sort of memories and emotions that I
Speaker 2: am trying to access while keeping the ball rolling as
Speaker 2: a host of this podcast. And it's conflicting because I
Speaker 2: don't know what all these emotions are that are coming up.
Speaker 2: I guess I should ask my therapist what this means. Oh,
Speaker 2: I should bring around the show. We should talk about
Speaker 2: the manner. But yeah, so I just wanted to say,
Speaker 2: you're kind of getting me at my ross right now.
Speaker 2: And this is the intimate Like I don't even have
Speaker 2: any comedic things to say about it right now, but
Speaker 2: it's definitely bringing up a lot of emotions. I think
Speaker 2: there's a twofold thing coming to hand right now, to
Speaker 2: head to hand to heart, to all of the above.
Speaker 2: I did a TV series which was a single camera
Speaker 2: sitcom which was loosely based on my life called So Notorious.
Speaker 2: With it was an amazing show. It was It's okay
Speaker 2: for me to say that, hey is the first time
Speaker 2: in my life. I got critical acclaim from like people
Speaker 2: out there, They're like, oh my gosh, And I knew
Speaker 2: that was a kiss of death when everyone wrote, like
Speaker 2: in the press, the was like critically acclaimed that I
Speaker 2: was actually good for ones, Like I should have known
Speaker 2: it wasn't going to work. But that said, it was
Speaker 2: me and Lannie Anderson and Zach Quinto and James Carbonello,
Speaker 2: and it was and a wonderful cast, and it was
Speaker 2: a really fun show because it was, while loosely based
Speaker 2: on my life, it basically was a show that I
Speaker 2: co created and the idea came from everyone had a
Speaker 2: preconceived notion of me, of my life. And this took
Speaker 2: place when I was in my late twenties. So at
Speaker 2: that time I was off nine o two and zero.
Speaker 2: But you know, the press always had something to write
Speaker 2: about me. The tabloid said something I'd write about me,
Speaker 2: and this was my time to you know, I remember
Speaker 2: my pitch was I took all the bad tabloid articles
Speaker 2: about me, the crazy stuff written even and made a
Speaker 2: little scrap book and I took that into pitch meetings
Speaker 2: a T shirt with all the rumors about me and everything,
Speaker 2: and yeah, and I went in and said, I laughed
Speaker 2: about it, and I said, here's everything. It was very
Speaker 2: you know, relied on self deprecating humor and just kind
Speaker 2: of if you can't beat them, join them. And the
Speaker 2: show originally was created for NBC and the pilot didn't
Speaker 2: get picked up there. We then took it to vh one,
Speaker 2: where it went one season. But this was at a
Speaker 2: time when they hadn't done scripted TV. It was all
Speaker 2: unscripted reality and competition shows and the big big show
Speaker 2: there was like Flavor of Love and you know, Finding
Speaker 2: Love and all that. So it didn't quite work for
Speaker 2: that audience, but I still stand by it was a
Speaker 2: really fun show and really well received and a lot
Speaker 2: of it took place. The reason I'm bringing this up
Speaker 2: is we had a fictitious manner and a lot of
Speaker 2: it was like the jokes of going We obviously couldn't
Speaker 2: use the real manner, and you know, all names it
Speaker 2: was loosely based on people that had been in my life,
Speaker 2: but we changed all the names and we added different
Speaker 2: qualities of you know, new characters. The only one that
Speaker 2: was really real ish was me, you know, and I
Speaker 2: played Tory Spelling. But it was like a heightened version,
Speaker 2: a comedic version of everything, and you know, every joke
Speaker 2: in the book, and then some about me making fun
Speaker 2: of myself basically because everyone else does. And we had
Speaker 2: to rent another house that was oddly enough, in the
Speaker 2: same area as my parents' house. Couldn't quite get one
Speaker 2: as big because it didn't exist, but we filmed there
Speaker 2: and we filmed it as the manner and all that
Speaker 2: and me getting lost in the house and my friends
Speaker 2: couldn't find me, all those jokes. But it's just odd
Speaker 2: timing that memories of that are coming up. And my
Speaker 2: on camera mother, Lonnie Anderson, just passed away recently, so
Speaker 2: it and she was so amazing and lovely and one
Speaker 2: of those people that come into your life and we
Speaker 2: didn't work together for that long, only for a year,
Speaker 2: but she's someone who has stayed in my heart for
Speaker 2: the rest of my life and really taught me so
Speaker 2: much about a female in this business and on screen.
Speaker 2: And you know, I was still the age at the
Speaker 2: time and she had been you know, the Angeenu for
Speaker 2: years and now it was a different time and place,
Speaker 2: you know, playing an older woman on TV. And she
Speaker 2: always taught me, you know, you don't need this now,
Speaker 2: but lighting's going to be very important to you later
Speaker 2: as an actress. Always have them light you from below.
Speaker 2: I've never forgotten that. Yeah, And she just taught me
Speaker 2: so much about being kind and humble, and she was
Speaker 2: such a legend and a star and so and was
Speaker 2: very formative in my life when I started my relationship
Speaker 2: with Dean and when I became a mom for the
Speaker 2: first time, and just one of those amazing humans that
Speaker 2: just sticks with you and your soul forever. But it's
Speaker 2: just the uncanny timing of she played my mom in
Speaker 2: a fictitious world based on my life and her passing away,
Speaker 2: and then like the keys of the kingdom changing hands,
Speaker 2: the manner itself getting sold, and it's just now I'm
Speaker 2: talking about my feelings of that, and it's just like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I can't find the words, and it's
Speaker 2: just all like all coming into my being right now
Speaker 2: of emotions of how I feel about everything. So it's
Speaker 2: just bizarre timing, that's all. But yeah, so I just
Speaker 2: want to say sorry, this episode might have seem a
Speaker 2: little scattered, but this is how I feel, and I
Speaker 2: feel like I want to do a deeper dive into
Speaker 2: how I really feel about what others call my childhood
Speaker 2: home because it would be interesting to figure out where
Speaker 2: the repressed memories are and feelings that I'm obviously having
Speaker 2: get to the bottom of that. So I guess, as
Speaker 2: I'm trying to say, is I don't have an end
Speaker 2: to this ending. I know there's a lot of finality
Speaker 2: with this, but I guess I haven't found my finality
Speaker 2: with this in my heart. So yeah, but you know me,
Speaker 2: I always got to bring comedy into it. So I
Speaker 2: guess when they say you can't ever go home again,
Speaker 2: this is true. It just sold I really can't go
Speaker 2: home now.