What is it like to grow up the child of one of the most famous comedians in the world?

Live through his infidelity and a public divorce, and then come together after a decade of tension to co-star in a sitcom

about, well, all of it. That's what Mayan Lopez has lived through, and it's what she's doing

with her new NBC sitcom, Lopez versus Lopez. She's here to talk about the power of therapy,

the necessity of hard conversations, and the TikTok that started it all.

Mayan, thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for having me, Alicia.

I'm so excited to be here.

What an exciting time for you.

It has been an absolute whirlwind.

I am here to proudly promote my new show on NBC, Lopez versus Lopez, in which I star with my real-life father, George Lopez.

It's a fictionalized version of our real-life relationship.

It's all really about the pain and reconnecting with a family member or a parent that you've had some animosity through, like like generational trauma or just internal parent-child

relationship things. And now I get to create beautiful art and hopefully impact a lot of people

and, you know, be a representation of Latinas in media. And I'm so incredibly grateful.

It's so wild to hear you speak about it so freely because in general,

families don't like to acknowledge tension or riffs. In Latino families specifically, we are conditioned

from a very young age that what happens at home stays at home and we do not talk about it

with people outside of the house. So I want to go back first and I want you to start by telling me

when you were a kid, what was that home like? It was a very chaotic home life sometimes. I'm an

only child and I'm kind of the miracle baby. My parents tried very hard to have other children, but it was really just me. And so my mom had a lot of juggling. My parents were really a partnership in their marriage as well. And so I kind of got to see on screen go to see the George Lopez show, which started when I was five and went until I was about 10, 9-10.

And so it was really interesting to see. I was very shielded from a lot of things in my home.

My mom made everything seem really great. But I also internalized a lot of the anxiety.

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