The Talk – December 9, 2010
Time: Thursday, December 9, 2010
Hosts: Julie Chen, Sharon Osbourne, Leah Remini, Sara Gilbert
Transcript by: Anne
Julie: Welcome back to The Talk. Our first guest is an Emmy award-winning actress best known for her role as Catherine Willows for eleven seasons on the hit CBS drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Please welcome, Marg Helgenberger.
(Marg comes out. Is generally awesome and sexy as hell.)
Julie: Have a seat.
Marg: Okay.
Julie: Now, you and I have known each other for so many years and I cannot believe since we first became friends and your little guy was an itty bitty guy, your son is now twenty years old!
Marg: Yes.
Sharon: Excuse me?
Julie: So she has a twenty year old son…
Sharon: A twenty year old?
Marg: Twenty. Oh, I just saw some pictures there…cause I brought two pictures. One was after the first season…they just showed it, and then the one was just taken last week. And I just…yeah, that’s when it puts it all in perspective.
Sharon: Twenty years old. You look amazing.
Marg: Oh, thank you. Thank you.
Sara: What’s your relationship with him like now that he’s like an adult.
Marg: It’s actually, well, when he was in high-school, we kind of butted heads a little. You know, cause he had a tendency to play too many video games and I didn’t know if the homework was getting done, but, um, now it’s actually pretty great, cause he’s um, he’s home. The college he was at didn’t work out, and so um, selfishly, because I only have one…
Sharon: You’re happy.
Marg: Yes! But he’s doing well though. He’s like, he’s taking classes at Santa Monica college, and he’s got this job that he’s…it’s really been good for him. So, um, we have a much better relationship now than we did when he was a teenager.
Sharon: They say that life is the best university.
Marg: Well said. Good answer. Yes, absolutely.
Julie: What is the greatest lesson you’ve learned from raising a twenty-year-old boy?
Marg: The greatest lesson I’ve learned. Gosh. So many. Oh boy. I, you know, um, when he was, going back to when he was a teen, um, cause sometimes it’s hard to get through to them, you know, cause they’re…And I try to have a lot of sympathy for what they’re going through — all the hormonal changes and peer pressure and so on and so on. But I remember one time, when he was a little boy I used to take some of his stuffed animals and I would put voices to them, you know, to try and understand what he was upset about and stuff. So I decided to do that when he was like, one time when he was like fifteen or something. I’m not joking. I think it was like a stuffed bear that was like wedged up in the closet and I grabbed it and I put a voice to it and I said, you know, some goofy voice, and “So, you upset your mom, right?” And he responds!
Julie: He did?
Marg: Yeah! He said “Yeah, well, she doesn’t understand because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.” Yeah, so when your kids are teens, you know…
Sharon: I tell you Marg, I hope he’s not watching! You will be in so much trouble.
Marg: But I understood what was bothering him, because he wouldn’t tell me otherwise. I mean, I just, I…it’s…I’m saying this as advice to people when they’re dealing with their teenagers and a way to…because sometimes it’s hard, right?
Leah: Oh my god, you kidding me?
Sharon: Sometimes? All the time!
Sara: I’m curious. I know you recently got divorced after twenty years of marriage, and I want to know what it’s been like to get back in the dating scene.
Marg: Um, well…I do have a boyfriend.
Sharon: I am not surprised.
Marg: Um, we’ve been, actually, it’s been a year that we’ve been seeing each other.
Sharon: Congratulations.
Marg: Thank you. Thank you. Yes, and we have incredible fun together, actually.
Julie: Can you tell us anything about him? Do we know who he is?
Marg: Uh, you probably don’t, because he’s not in the business.
Julie: Okay. That’s refreshing.
Sharon: Smart girl.
Julie: Yeah.
Marg: Yes, yes. He, uh, his name is Alan.
Julie: Which is the name of your ex-husband.
Marg: Yes. Mhm.
Julie: Okay. That certainly keeps things simple.
Marg: Yep. His name’s Alan. And he’s a Jewish guy from New York. As was my ex-husband.
Julie: I think we just figured out Marg Helgenberger’s type. Marg Helgenberger everybody. CSI airs
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