Ep 19 Taylor puts the final nail in Blake's coffin
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Summary
A judge ruled that Justin Baldoni's audio recording of the Wayfair party should be released to the public, and now we know how we can get a copy of it. Plus, Taylor Swift has finally confirmed that she and Blake and Taylor are not friends.
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I'm guessing we're going to hear this within a few hours because I'm sure
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Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Sashdi Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller
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and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
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All right, I'm just sitting here just waiting for this tape to show up somewhere.
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I was speculating on how this recording would be released.
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As you know, the judge did rule a couple of days ago that the recording of Steve Sarawis,
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Justin Baldonis, co-founder at the Wayfair parties, that that recording, due to public pressure,
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And today was the deadline that Baldoni's team and Lively's team had to come together
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and respond to this and give us a way that we could hear this recording.
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So I was speculating if they would give it to TMZ or to people or whatever.
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But now we know how we can get a hold of this recording.
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So if anyone's in New York, you can go to the courthouse and ask for a CD.
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I'm guessing this is Blake's team's idea that they will give it to the clerk there, this CD,
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They will, it says here that the parties have conferred and agreed to provide the clerk's office
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with copies of the physical audio recording in a CD format.
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So if anyone still has a CD player, I don't have that.
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I mean, why not just put it somewhere that people can download it online?
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I mean, this is so ridiculous, but anyways, and then it will be distributed to or copied
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for the public upon the clerk's office receiving such request.
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Counsel for the parties confirm that the clerk's office is amenable to the foregoing approach,
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which the parties agree provides public access to the audio file in the year of the file
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So if you're in New York and you want to get hold of this recording,
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I would appreciate if you share it with me and with everyone else as well.
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It doesn't say exactly when it's going to be available, but I'm sure it should be available now.
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So I'm guessing we're going to hear this within a few hours because I'm sure
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Anyway, so today I think it's time to put the final nail in the coffin
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Finally, I think Taylor had enough of all the speculations now,
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And also I'll talk a little bit about how TMZ is helping Kevin Federline
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They keep quoting his book every five minutes in a new article.
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Also, there's this really heartbreaking interview with Michael J. Fox, who was my biggest crush
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And I did watch his documentary and now he's done an interview.
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And I think it's just such a great reminder to appreciate life and to appreciate when we're
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Okay, so a lot of people have tried to convince us lately that Blake and Taylor are still friends.
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Because Taylor is known for her Easter eggs, it was the perfect opportunity for people to start
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creating conspiracy theories about every little detail from her videos or from her songs that
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could connect her to Blake and that could be some kind of evidence that they were still friends.
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I believe that a lot of those conspiracy theories also comes from Blake's team because it's really
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in Blake's interest here to pretend that they're still friends.
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This scandal with Taylor Swift is worse for Blake's reputation than this entire Justin Baldoni lawsuit.
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If you think about the general public and what they read, the headlines that are out there,
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Because this shows she's a bad friend and that's bad character and Taylor Swift has a lot of fans.
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Anyway, so on October 9th, Dumont had a podcast where they had a source who revealed that the
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The source stated that the meeting was allegedly not tense at all and was all about friends catching
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This must have been fed to them straight from Leslie Sloan, if you ask me.
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Also, keep in mind that Dumont is also repped by WME, the same management company that represent
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If you don't know them, it's kind of a gossip site.
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They have a big Instagram account and then they apparently have a podcast.
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But let's finish this Taylor Swift business once and for all.
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And I think this is why Taylor now has come out and said, you know, enough is enough.
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And now a lot of different outlets have reported on this.
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Page six is saying here that Taylor Swift has no contact with former bestie Blake Lively since
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I never heard that word from before, but I really like it.
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Well, Instagram scuttlebutt account Dumont reported this week that the former friends
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whose relationship was marred amid fallout with Lively's legal drama had a low key reunion.
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A source tells us saying that the once tight pair haven't spoken since last winter when the
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I feel that this might be tree paint coming out there because this is not in Taylor's favor
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As you know, Taylor has received a lot of backlash from people who think that she might
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be friends with Blake and people who think and speculated that the song cancelled was a
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And now I think she's just coming out there to say enough is enough.
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Let's just like squash this rumor once and for all.
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They also have another source here who also confirmed that they haven't spoken or had
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As you know, Taylor's reps have come out before and talked about this and said that Taylor
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wished that Blake would never have dragged her into this.
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And we have to remember, it all started with Blake dragging her friend into this.
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She was the one referring to her friend as my dragon.
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And that word is apparently also something that Taylor really did not like.
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And it's also been said many times through her reps that she feels used.
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I don't know anyone who would appreciate to be called someone's dragon.
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And they remind us here of another source who said this in August that for that Swift will
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be forever furious at how Blake quite clearly was using her for clout and leverage in her
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She really hates that Blake would even think like that, let alone write the things she did
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So yes, of course, when you are one of the most famous pop stars in the world, you have
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to protect yourself and you have to choose your friends really, really wisely.
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And it reminds me of that meeting that when it all started, that happened back in January
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I think that Blake knew that Taylor was going to show up before this meeting was over.
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So the meeting was between her and Justin and they were going to discuss this rooftop scene.
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And then before they finished the meeting, Taylor Swift just showed up.
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I think Taylor was really caught off guard in that situation.
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And she just got dragged into this conversation about this scene, which Justin has said later
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And he was really caught off guard by being attacked by Blake and Ryan, convincing him that
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their writing was better than the ones that was in the script.
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And of course, he was pressured into actually choosing Ryan's, because now we know it was
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Ryan who wrote that scene, to pick his version over the one they already agreed on that was
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So yes, I think definitely that Taylor was caught off guard.
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And they also say here, you know, that she had nothing to do with the casting of young Lily.
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Isabella Ferrer was on the red carpet being interviewed saying that, oh, she was so flattered that Taylor
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had something to do with her casting and that they actually picked her for young Lily.
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I think they hear that Taylor may have had some influence in getting her role.
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I don't even know if I'm meant to be saying it, but I'm saying it.
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Yeah, she was a helpful part of the process of the audition, which I found out later after
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Taylor said that she had nothing to do with that.
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So that just shows how Blake has been leveraging and using her name to promote It Ends With Us.
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And bottom line, of course, Taylor would never forgive that.
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If you think about the relationship she had in the past and how she has made songs about it
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and how she never really made up with anyone that she had a big feud with,
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I think this is one of her biggest ever disappointments.
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If this happened to me, if a girlfriend of mine did something like Blake did to Taylor
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here, to me, I would never speak to that person again.
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Okay, so let's get back into Blake and Ryan's relationship.
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It's been so long since we actually saw the two of them together.
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Ryan has kept himself so busy with this touring of the John Candy movie, while Blake has been
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home posting photos of baking goods, and herself coloring, and herself in a pajamas.
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And yesterday, she posted some photos of flowers and another cake, while Ryan is out there on talk
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And she hasn't been with him on one single event to help him promote this movie.
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When he was at the premiere here in LA, her sister was there instead of herself.
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Either Ryan is asking her not to show up because he doesn't want her reputation to taint the movie.
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And if that's the case, that's not really great for a relationship.
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If Magnus would have told me, don't come to this event tonight because people don't like you,
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I would feel like that was not great for our relationship if he would tell me something like that.
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And I think Blake would really like to be there.
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And she's been very active promoting her hair care line lately.
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So I don't think the reason is that she doesn't want to be seen out in public.
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So I wouldn't be surprised if we hear something about them living separate lives pretty soon.
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Also, I just saw in the Hollywood Reporter that Ryan is expected to talk,
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to have a speech at this event that his company group Effort is doing in collaboration with WME.
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So if you're ever wondering where WME stands when it comes to loyalty here,
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And as you know, they used to represent Justin Baldoni, but not anymore.
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And a source that I have told me that he was not surprised that Blake Lively's agents
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He said, you know, if you're not telling the truth in a deposition,
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you can always defend yourself with saying, I thought it was the truth.
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So if a person says something that Blake Lively told them,
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if Blake Lively told this person, her agent, that, oh, I don't feel comfortable about Justin,
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Blake wasn't comfortable and there were things going on there.
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And you can never be charged with perjury if you believe something to be true.
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Even though we know some people are lying here,
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they could always say that I believed it to be true.
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And he also told me that, you know, just follow the money.
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Why would they be on Baldoni's side here when they make tons and tons of money of Blake and Ryan?
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Anyways, let's talk a little bit more about Kevin Federline and his new book.
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I was really shocked today when I started reading the stories that TMC published
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I think they have about 20 articles up and they're all from anecdotes from his book
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where he's telling horrible things about Brittany as a mother, as a wife, as a family member.
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And I feel very defensive of Brittany because as we all know at this point,
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And what they're doing to her now, what the press is doing to her,
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helping Kevin Federline promote this book that is just going to crush her even more.
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I think it's so despicable and I think it's really dangerous.
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I think all of these people are responsible for that.
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And as I said yesterday, the reason for him publishing this book now is so obvious to me.
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He's saying that because he's got the blessing of the sons.
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Why would her sons want this information to be out there about their mother?
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As I said, this happened just after child support ended.
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And there's an article here on page six actually saying how much Kevin received from Brittany every month,
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I was surprised that he didn't actually get more.
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And that's not a lot when you live in LA and you have to cover your kids' schools
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and you feel like you need maybe some security or people to protect them.
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But he also got another $20,000 for half of the duration of their 26-month marriage.
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So he's saying here that he's not financially set.
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And the money didn't stretch as far as you think.
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He said that he needed rent, transportation, security, child care, and blah, blah, blah.
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She keeps posting on X how devastated she is and how hurtful this is to her.
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And by reading her messages there, I just feel like you can see from the way she's writing as well
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And I just hope this won't be the brink for her.
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And I feel like the way that Kevin is saying that he's worried about her.
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Anyways, let's talk a little bit about Michael J. Fox.
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I saw this article the other day in the Times UK.
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And as I said in the beginning of this episode, I was such a fan of Michael J. Fox.
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I watched Back to the Future five times in a movie theater in Norway.
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We didn't have many movies coming out at that time.
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And I was devastated when I found out that he was so much shorter than me
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when I went to Madame Tussauds in England with my mother.
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He was diagnosed when he was 29 and now he's 64.
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There's no series of stages that you go through.
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Not in the same way that you would, say, with prostate cancer.
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There are not many people who have had Parkinson's for 35 years.
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I don't want to trip over furniture and smash my head.
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And then he talks about all the things that he broke in his body
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by falling over and other things that comes with the disease.
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He said, in a three-year period, I broke my elbow.
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I got a big infection in my hand and I almost lost my finger.
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At one point, he lost the ability to play the guitar.
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I had all these little bones broken and it got infected.
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And they had to cut the bones out because the bones got infected.
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When I read things like this, I feel it's just such a reminder for everyone
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that when we are healthy, that we really have to appreciate every day.
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And I have to say, I'm so impressed with Michael J. Fox.
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Even he's going to be in one episode of Apple TV plus shrinking.
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I think his sense of humor is one of the things that I noticed in the documentary
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that he has such a warm and amazing sense of humor.
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And also his wife who's been there for him this entire time.
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I just feel like they're such great role models.
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I just wanted to share that story with you guys because I think it's so powerful.
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He wanted to say that he was so excited when he heard that Diane Keaton was giving $5 million
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And yeah, I feel like people that are dog lovers, they have a special place in my heart.
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Some people were saying we need to see more of Oscar.
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