Welcome to Celebrity Book Club. This is a podcast that recaps and celebrates the memoirs

of badass female celebrities. And this week we have a very special bonus episode. We are

diving into the memoir of Cecilie Strong. She is a star on SNL, a judge on RuPaul's

direct grace. The star of Apple TV's latest show, Schmiggedun, which I cannot wait to

see. And this memoir was published seconds ago, minutes ago. It literally came out yesterday.

And Cecilie wrote it in the last year and we're gonna dive into it all right now with

Cecilie herself. Hi, Cecilie. Hi, Chelsea. Thank you for including RuPaul and my bio.

Are you kidding me? That's probably the moment in your life when you heard from me most.

I was like, what are you wearing? What's your hair? That is truly, there are some people

who only know me that way. And I appreciate them even more so for it.

Fuck, I love drag race. Okay. All right. But diving into something I love just as much

as your book. So I read your book a couple weeks ago. It wrecked me. I highlighted so many

things. But before we get into it, I introduce all my guests with the story of how we first

met. Do you remember how we first met? And if not, I might, might. I have an idea.

I feel like I don't know what the actual like first meeting was because I certainly like

knew who you were, but I don't know if we met. Yeah, yeah. We definitely never had

a like shake hands moment, right? Well, I think we're, I'm awkward. I don't know if you

filled that way as well. I don't know that I had a lot of shake hands moment. At all.

Chicago. I remember you because I was in awe of you and you were understeady in the

main stage. Yeah. You were turning like on the road for a second city. And the moment

I remember as most like being like, okay, this was the moment we officially met is when

you were leaving the touring company and I was coming in. And I, you handed me your scripts

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