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Was there something you wrote that didn't end up in the book or something that was really hard to relive to rewrite?

There was a few things that, and I'll try and say this the right way with some of the age

group.

There's a few things in the beginning, like I said, I have, I've this, this happened to be,

that I purposefully made it one line and said there's a great story there,

but I'm not writing that story because that'll be the headline.

I'm not writing that story because someone will put that line in bold print and that is not what this book is about. So I personally held

back on some certain things and they're really good stories. But I knew being in my position,

being a celebrity, that would have been a headline and it would have been the lead for a lot of the conversations. And I would have gotten tired of going, uh-uh, that's not what the book's about. You didn't got to get past that point. That would have been, it was to page six news. And so there were things I was conscious of it was like, uh, don't give them that. Even though it's a great story, hold that one back because you don't want anyone leading with that and that is what they'll lead with

i was going to ask you about that because there's something i saw you on the view and they

tried to ask you a question and you could tell that what they were trying to get was a soundbite

that would either uh that would preemptively end the prospects of a political career before it started.

And I, that restraint, that ability to think, hey, instead of going off the cuff here,

I'm going to dodge this trap, which it was, which so often that's what people are after.

They want a sort of a gotcha thing or, or, you know, in sports, like reason people trash talk is they want you yeah to overreact and get in trouble yeah but but there's something i think stoic about going hey i see what you're trying to do here i'm not mad about it right but i'm not going to fall for it either well i've got done it long enough to not be mad about it. Yeah. Again, not to think it's unbelievable.

I can't believe you ask the question.

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