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Man, it's nice to see you have been following your work on the ringer and I remember you from TMZ, although I don't know that I can cite much of your work from TMZ. I also don't know. I've heard you quoted talking about some of the shames involved with whatever it is that must be done at TMZ to get ahead.

But I didn't want to talk to you about that. Now I wanted to talk to you about fat crazy and tired tales from the trenches of transformation. It's a book you've written.

I don't know why you've written it and I don't know what was the transformation you were looking for.

So I, at one point, I've gained some weight now since the pandemic. I think we all went through forgiving ourselves for not being able to stay committed to a gym routine when there are no gyms and there's no society.

But before, I was about 370 pounds and I got down to the whole time I was at TMZ, around 225 pounds. This was a loss a lot of weight.

And the book is really about sort of an indictment of a lot of the different things that got me up to that size and how culture played a part of it.

And how when I sat back and looked at it, there was a predisposition for me to live an unhealthy lifestyle dealing with some of the mental trauma that I had growing up.

Like, I'm from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, so that's a part of it. And just everything that I learned about it.

It was almost like one of those weird, sappy, self-help books at first, but so much life changed during writing it. I lost my father.

I mean, I lost, I moved away from TMZ or my movie we did, one in Academy Awards, so much stuff happened that the book actually became about that transformation.

Like me having lost my dad, me getting away from that workplace, and just how I'm coping and how other people that might be have similar feelings how they can cope too.

So you started just, I'm going to write a self-help book about my journey superficially, and I'm going to tackle some stuff, but I'm not prepared for life dealing with some changes here that are also transformational that can be scary, but most growth is.

Yeah, yeah. And then as things would come in, the book just changed.

And then it ended up becoming sort of a blueprint of how to deal with the curve balls and life throws at you.

You mentioned Baton Rouge though, are you talking about the, what are you talking about there specifically when you just throw the blanket of growing up in Baton Rouge?

Right, so I'm from South Baton Rouge, two places in South Baton Rouge, one called Gardier, the other called the bottom.

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