[Cheers and applause]

BM: Where is your – oh, you don't have a book. How are you? Nice to meet you . . .

BM: . . . Paul Petersen who played on "Donna Reed" Bucky or Chunky or whatever he was on "The Donna Reed Show," right. He started a group, a support group, called "A Minor Consideration," to help former child stars. And I was wondering what you think of some of the things he said. He said, you know, "I was on that show from 12 to 20. And in all those years, no one ever asked me the question ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?'" He thinks that it's really a form of child abuse to be a child acting star.

LW: What I wanted to be when I grew up was a child actress. I specifically wanted to be an actress as a child.

BM: When you grew up, you wanted to be a child actress?

[Laughter]

LW: I said this when I was 7. So growing up was relative, when I was 16. My parents really were helping me fulfill my dream. So I think we have to be careful not to stereotype the child actor's parents, too. It ultimately cost them more than it cost me . . .

DB: I think there's a word we're hesitating on using here. And that is the word "has-been." Nothing sucks like being a has-been. Let me just promise you that.

LW: Not necessarily. It depends on if you have something else to go to. I was very fortunate. We wrapped the show in March, I was married in July, had three kids in three years, and I've never looked back. So it depends if that is the end of your life or if that is a beginning . . .

DB: Yeah, it's a bizarre childhood, sure. But what about Jodie Foster? . . .

BM: Yeah, but that's the exception, and there is one to every rule. Yes, Jodie Foster and . . .

DB: Well, if there's one to every rule, there's two.

GC: And there might be three.

DB: These are decent, fine, hard-working – what about Lisa? Aren't you a Christian and the wife of a minister?

BM: See, what's my point? [Laughter] Look how it messes up your life and forces people into a cult. [Applause] You don't think Christianity is a cult? It's just a successful one.

GC: Well, that's a story for another day.

BM: The fact that you are a minister's wife makes me just feel so dirty about the things I used to think about when you were Blair. You were so fine. [Cheers and applause]

GC: You mean, I wasn't the only one? I wasn't the only one . . . .

BM: . . . I want to ask you this. What do people say to you when you are out? Because you mentioned when you were a waiter [talking to Danny], they were cruel deliberately. But people can be cruel without knowing it. They don't try to be cruel. But they just don't know what to say to celebrities. There should be some sort of training program.

DB: Little questions like, "Why did you get out of show business?" That kind of thing? Like, "Really, I gave it up voluntarily, I swear."

LW: I think they're being nice to me when they say, "You know, you don't look as fat as you do on TV."

[Laughter]

DB: No, they say stuff like that. They do.

LW: I don't know that I say "thank you" or not.

BW: "I thought you were a lot taller."

GC: Or like "bigger." Or "What you talking about?" was just really . . .

DB: Oh, that's got to be a nightmare!

[Laughter]

GC: Oh, I hate that so much. . .