This is the way I heard it.

During her farewell tour in 2005,

Cher demanded multiple boxes of aloe vera tissues

in rose-centred, cube-shaped boxes.

Happily, Cher wasn't David's problem.

When Mariah Carey was interviewed in 2009,

she demanded to be lowered onto the sofa by two stage hands

so she wouldn't crease her dress.

Happily, Mariah wasn't David's problem.

And when Madonna checked into her 5,000-square-foot hotel suite

in 2012, she demanded hundreds of pink roses

individually placed into hundreds of crystal vases,

carefully situated on every flat surface.

Happily, Madonna was not David's problem.

However, when Eddie demanded seven weeks

to prepare for the most ambitious outdoor gathering

in recent memory, well, that was David's problem.

Because if David was going to pull off an event

of this magnitude, he needed the right entertainment.

And there was really nobody like Eddie.

But seven weeks of rehearsal, that was a diva move

unlike anything David had ever seen.

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