Life Will Be the Death of Me with Chelsea Handler - Not a Loser with Amanda Seyfried

Episode Date: December 18, 2025

Amanda Seyfried (The Housemaid, The Testament of Ann Lee) joins Chelsea to talk about auditioning for Wicked, mucking stalls on her farm in the Catskills, and why she’ll never do a stage play again.  Then: A wedding in Bali threatens to go off the rails when an evil stepmother needs to be disinvited.   And a florist falls in love with an Ecuadorian rose merchant and wrestles with following her head or her heart.  * Need some advice from Chelsea? Email us at [e-mail] * Executive Producer Catherine Law Edited & Engineered by Brad Dickert * * * The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the Podcast author, or individuals participating in the Podcast, and do not represent the opinions of iHeartMedia or its employees.  This Podcast should not be used as medical advice, mental health advice, mental health counseling or therapy, or as imparting any health care recommendations at all.  Individuals are advised to seek independent medical, counseling advice and/or therapy from a competent health care professional with respect to any medical condition, mental health issues, health inquiry or matter, including matters discussed on this Podcast. Guests and listeners should not rely on matters discussed in the Podcast and shall not act or shall refrain from acting based on information contained in the Podcast without first seeking independent medical advice.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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this climate change is now it's a situation of like the valley and then like mid-mountain you have to see where the freezing level is. So have you been able to ski at all yet or no? Yeah, I skied. I've skied. I've skied. When you go up top, it's fine. But it's just kind of hard to get on the mountain in the rain and then go all the way up. And then you're like, oh, it's snow. Yeah. So but, you know, I just have to stay focused. So what are you doing in this last couple of weeks of the year? Are you chilling? Are people visiting? People are visiting. People are my niece and her boyfriend arrived tomorrow. I have another friend coming from that. I met on my cruise to Antarctica.

That's the new pronunciation of Antarctica. I was forgetting the second T, or the first one. And then, yeah, I have some people coming. And then, oh, I've been watching all the movies. I have my link for my Critics' Choice because I'm hosting the Critics' Choice Awards on January 4th, so I have to get all of those movies in my brain

to come up with my jokes and monologue and la-la-la. I mean, I have writers that are also working on it, so hopefully they're working harder than I am. Hopefully they're watching those movies, too. Now, okay, I don't know if you're allowed to say, but do you have any favorites so far? Well, I watched Hamnet yesterday, which made me bawl. I bawled.

I really want to watch it. I'm very excited. I mean, I love that. I love crying like a baby on my couch alone with Doug. And then Doug comes over to console me. It's really cute. Yeah, Hamnet was beautiful. Jay Kelly, I just started.

I have to watch that. Adam Sandler is so good when he's like acting, acting. And I don't know. Yeah, I've seen so many that it's really, oh, yeah, Train Dreams is really good with Joel Edgerton. And what's that actress's name? I think it's Edgerton. Is it Edgerton?

I think it's Edgerton. I think it's Edgerton. Maybe you're right, though. Okay, we'll look it up. Let's go with your hurts. Let's make a bet. Okay, all right. What should we bet?

What should we bet? If I'm right, you can't sing song words anymore. You can't go, Chelsea. I don't know if I'll be able to do it. Okay. Bye, Chelsea. And if you're right, what can I do anymore? Be mad at me for sing-songing.

Okay, all right. That's fair. okay look it up look it up right now in real time looking it up and okay edgerton or edgerton you're gonna be right and now i'm like you are gonna be right okay it's coming please welcome back to the show our friend joel edgerton everybody oh shit shit fuck see now you have to love my sing-songing i do try to rein it in sometimes but you should you should try to rein it in it doesn't really match this podcast well i guess it does match the podcast. It doesn't match me. It's like a nice balance, right? Hopefully, hopefully. I was

actually afraid it was going to make your head explode, Catherine. It'd be like holding in a sneeze. Yeah, exactly. Save it for the bedroom, you two, okay? Save the singing for the bedroom, please. Okay, today was one of my favorite people. We've had so many great actresses on lately, and this is another one. She's an Academy Award-nominated actress, a Golden Globe winner for her work in The Dropout, and she has a second Golden Globe nomination for her new movie, the testament of Ann Lee. So please welcome Amanda Seyfried. Welcome. Amanda Seyfried is on the podcast today. She's on Dear Chelsea. She's coming to us live from her farm. I think in the Catskills, I want to say. Is that right? Yes. Are you going to

audibly respond or are you just going to do thumbs up for this interview? You know what this is? This is Zoom culture. Yeah. Well, Amanda, we've been in Zoom culture since fucking 2020 you've had five years to get a head start no it's because i'm used to it last night i was on an hour-long call on mute giving you know thumbs ups and and aoks you know what is nice about zoom culture is sometimes you just pretend that you can't get on so that you don't have to like i've done that before when i've had like a business zoom i'm like i can't make it work i'm on mute and then i just can't and then i just click off and then the meeting's over without me. There's always one person that does that. And now I'm going to question it every time.

Right. Right. So we have a lot to celebrate. Amanda was just nominated for, you've been nominated for Golden Globes before, right? For Mamma Mia, you got nominated and I think you won. Oh, whoops. Okay. You were snubbed that year. So she was nominated this year. We're going to, she's lip syncing again. She was nominated for, it's called the Testament of Ann Lee. and this is a move so congratulations amanda why don't you take your flowers for a second say thank you thank you so much double double time it's been great i did not get a golden globe nomination for mama mia but that was okay did you get another golden globe nomination before i got a nomination and i won for the dropout and i wasn't there

oh wow that's pretty tricky where were you on your farm no I had to work you said that in quotes like you put quotes up like you didn't really have to work I totally had to work it was it was it would have been impossible it probably would have been possible but it was it felt like too tricky to get all the way to LA at the night from working where were you I was I was actually doing of a workshop of a musical. And it felt like everybody's schedules had to align for so long that we finally got them all to align in this one week. And it just happened to be that Golden Globe week. So like, it was the first thing I had won. And then I couldn't, I didn't get to accept it, which I guess, you know, maybe that's a blessing.

Well, listen, I'm aware of your anxiety. You've talked a lot about your anxiety. And I think it is a blessing because if you had to get up on that stage, who knows which way the wind would have blown. You know what I mean? Cause you're a little bit like, you don't know what's going to happen. X factor, man. Yeah. It's an X factor, which I fucking, I mean, listen, we all fucking love it, but probably for your personal well-being, it was better for you to be in a workshop. And that's also very professional that you were able to say, I'm not going to go to the first nomination I got, then win, and then come back to your group of actors. They must've even respected you more after that yeah okay well I'll follow up with all of those people I think so there was a

lot of celebration actually yeah it was nice so you were nominated for Critics Choice Award this year just so you know I'm hosting the Critics Choice so I know that I I am definitely going to single you out and do something funny for you or about you because you know how I feel about you and I just think that you deserve that. Thank you. In any way, shape, or form, I would be happy to join you. Maybe we will do something cute together. That's actually a great idea.

But I am very excited that you got nominated because, first of all, I just want to be in total seriousness. This is one of the most talented people in this industry. She can do fucking anything. She can do anything. Demonstrated by her two movies that are out right now. I think Housemaid comes out tomorrow and The Testament of Anne Lee is going to come out shortly after.

And these are two completely different movies. One is about the Quaker movement and this woman. Let's talk about The Testament of Anne Lee because I had to watch this movie twice. The first time I was stoned. Wait, watching it stoned is an enhanced experience. I didn't understand which religion we were in. I understood like, there's a lot of singing and dancing, which I all hope turns into TikTok

dances because they're intense. And Amanda's an incredible singer. I heard you sing that Carole King song. I don't know on who's late night show recently because you were trying to Joni. Oh yeah. Joni Mitchell. Sorry. Not Carole King. No, it's fine. I love Joni Mitchell, which what, what was the song called? California. Yeah. It was like a quick little, I know, but, but you were talking about your voice and your singing voice and saying that you don't really believe like i guess you uh what was the movie you auditioned for that you didn't get where you had to sing uh you want me to say it out loud well if you've only i'm kidding no no it's a joke i'm over it uh wicked wicked right oh right so that's even a double whammy so all of

but look see look at this no exactly it's all happened exactly like i i truly believe that it was for the best. For sure. For everyone involved. Because I got to do this too. You were talking on this interview that I saw about your singing voice and you were saying how much you've worked on your singing voice since Les Mis. And in Les Mis, we all thought you fucking nailed it. And you were saying that you have become a better singer since then and that you weren't at the level or at the place you wanted to be when you filmed Les Mis. do you still agree with that assessment well I agree with that assessment I also but I also completely let go of the need to access something that I might not ever be able to access in terms

of like the control of the vibrato and and the stamina and the breath work I understand that I'm not gonna be starring in a musical on Broadway where I need the kind of stamina that I that I was, I've been trying to build. I'm, I'm, you know, my voice is specifically because I ended up doing something like Ann Lee where it wasn't about how it sounded. It was about where it came from. It was about how it was felt, not just by me, but by the audience. Right. But by, by her followers. And it's like, I finally stopped listening to myself in the way that kind of made it not fun to sing. I mean, I listen, I will say during my Wicked auditions, I sang better than I thought I would. I felt I was, I think it came with the excitement, the momentum

of how much I was training for it. And I was very proud of myself for sure. That will never go away. But I also realized maybe I'm just not that kind of singer and I don't need to sound like anyone else. It took me four years, but at least I'm here. And, you know, when I listen, if I were to listen to the songs in Les Mis. It was exactly how it needed to be for that time. And Anne Lee came and I was able to, the opportunity was amazing. And it was perfect for where my voice was

in that it's a human voice, not a trained voice. Yeah, yeah. I like what you just said. That's perfectly said because you are singing for like your followers and you are leading this group of people. And then I love midway through the movie, she gives herself she becomes christ she becomes like the female christ as and then uses that as

an excuse to have stop having sex with her husband which i think is really a tale as old as time yeah and you know what everybody was like oh for for jesus for peace for for communion with god Sure. Listen, I don't think any of us would denounce or, you know, eliminate fornication nowadays. Because even though it's tricky, it's still incredibly pleasurable. But they weren't up for pleasure. They wanted peace. And it was, it made sense to her in her trauma. Yes, in her trauma. The woman, you know, losing these children, the direct, you know, the direct line between sex and pain was too clear for her. It had to be painful. Everything had to be painful. Yeah. And it makes sense. It made sense for her. But the fact that, you know, almost 6,000 people at one point were like, yeah, I can do that too.

I lose my mind. I would love to know how many people were hiding and having a fortification. Because there was no birth control. There was no birth control, so, you know, kind of. There was a giveaway at the end of that. Yeah, right, right, exactly. So how is this?

Because you had a female director, so, I mean, and there's a lot of nudity. There's a lot of sex in this movie. There's a lot of... Childbirth. Yes, a lot of childbirth, a lot of, like, bearing, I mean, birthing positions that I hadn't been familiar with prior to watching this right it's a it's a lesson for a lot of people that childbirth is uh traumatic

uh for most people and there's nothing like a scene in a movie where you can see it from where it's all happening and necessary i think necessary do you know like apparently this is a rumor i don't know if it's for sure but i believe it to be true that in venice 15 men walk out after that scene oh I read that I read that oh that's so and I'm like men men these are your babies yeah this is your seed your seed created this baby exactly the seed is from you I posted this thing on Instagram the other day where I was like uh it was a quote from Cher about you know what men if men knew if men had to give up and interrupt their career and give up nine months of their physical life

and breastfeeding. Yeah, all of the things like that they would want to have a say in it. And I posted it and like credited Cher and like there's like 50 guys on there going,

well, you don't think this affects our life too? Like this is so sexist to say it only impacts women. It's like, oh, shut up. Just shut up. You're missing the whole fucking point.

But how was it working doing all of that? All those sex scenes, all those birthing scenes, like how was it working with a female director versus a male director was there a big difference for you well there's no question with mona she and i have lived we can relate on on things that i can relate to with men and that's just a fact

there's a trust there's an innate trust in how it's going to be shot and why it's important there are no questions at a certain point when you go on a set you have you know we've got our dp who's a man who I've loved and trust and, and, um, like a family member, we have these male crew members, but when there's a woman who's in charge of how it's being shot and what's being seen and how the story's going to unfold, it just feels heavier. It feels more empowered and it feels more truthful when it, especially when it comes to, to, to, to that kind of content, to that, that kind of situation and experience. And I'm not saying a male director couldn't have done it beautifully I'm just saying my perspective and the way I felt in that room that tiny little

room I I was empowered as well and I probably would have been empowered like I worked with Adam McGuire and I was super naked in a movie I did when I was 24 called Chloe and I didn't question much because there was a lot of there's a lot of discussion around the whole thing for a while it felt if it felt the way it needed that you know we were doing everything right but I'm just saying, like with Mona, I don't know, she's got a sensitivity to these things. And I'm not saying you have to have gone through childbirth to understand it. There's just this sensibility that we have and an instinct that we have as women that for me, when I'm working, especially with that kind of subject matter, I just feel a little closer to it. I feel a little bit more,

it's more reachable it's like I just feel like I'm being taken care of as well long story short no no I like to hear you talk about it because I'm curious about what kind of actor you are you a method actor because these two projects you're not not not not because these two projects are so different like housemaid I can't imagine that that's a method acting role right that's more of like camp and like you know crazy kind of like thriller and it's based on all these books and then this one is real serious like you've got to do your research research research so how do you approach two different roles like this like what do you do as an actor the thing about annalee is that she's a real iconic person who uh whose story has not

been told in really any grand way um that she so deserves i think and so like there's a lot of responsibility because to know everything i could possibly know about her and also to learn everything like there's so much collaboration obviously it was like 18th century we don't know what those dances really look like we don't know exactly how she sang like there's so many thing that we had the freedom to explore and and change and design so with those designs i had to like completely embody the like i had to move i don't hate dancing but i had to learn the choreography i had to understand why each move was happening from a spiritual point of view from from a necessity one of you because she was so committed and so devoted i just had to embody

someone in a way that I haven't before because of because of the nature of like what treat what she created and she was only able to create that because she so believed that she was the messiah and I just had to fall in love with her like like with Elizabeth Holmes I had to fall in love with her I just have to somehow find it in my you know find the sisterhood create it which comes from compassion and all that stuff you know human to human stuff like you know being able to relate to the character you're playing but I also had to like I mean I just had to there was so much pre-production so much preparation because there was a Manchester accent too oh yeah that was really good yeah that was a great hill and is that you narrating the whole film no that's Thomas

and Mackenzie with her accent and she's from New Zealand oh okay because I was confused because I was like this sounded like you sometimes and then it wasn't because you watched it stoned I know and that's why I went back and I watched it sober and I yeah but also it's okay like I think the experience you had watching the decimate manly stone is it must have been somewhat confusing but also maybe enlightening in a different way i think it's wonderful i actually told my caretaker at my farm who's not here today to you know have like a shot of rum yeah for sure you should have a shot of something absolutely because it's a lot to take in and it's something that's so foreign to modern day like you know what we believe in like modern day culture like you really have to get into it

And the good thing about being stoned is that you kind of just drop judgment and you're just kind of taking something in. That's what I like about it. Sometimes when I'm watching a movie and I'm not stoned, I'm like right away like, oh, like, you know, this is this is not necessary. This is gratuitous or this is too much sex. This is what I want to drop for like for watching all these Academy movies. Yeah. It's it's first of all, some of its homework. And I hate things that feel like homework.

but some but i should be stoned i'm i'm i think i bought gummies i like cbd but i haven't taken them yet because i'm afraid to get stoned because i the times i've been really stoned have been people i'm sure i've told you some of these stories before it's bad but i think i should do that because when i was watching another movie the other night i'm like oh why are they shooting it like that well why why are we watching from this direction why do they say that like okay like i'm just judging everything exactly and that's that's that's the best gift that cannabis gives me is to drop the judgment i just can be and enjoy something so we need to just find you the right concoction because i know your personality is a little bit tricky with drugs and stuff

there's like a 2.5 thc gummy that has like a lot more cbd in it right charlotte's web it can't have a lot more cbd in it because it's 2.5 milligrams so whatever it has c yeah but it doesn't that's two point it's like that's nothing anyway so 2.5 i'm not a scientist i am i am a scientist soy scientista soy astronauta so sorry sorry astroglida um let's talk about what's happening on this farm that you live on i love that you live in the catskills on a farm with your two kids and your husband is it so nice tell us about your life and my mom and your mom Yeah, she's right over there. Hi, Mom.

She can't hear you because you made me put headphones on. I told her I said hello. You know who else is here? My decrepit 16-year-old dog. She's waving. Oh, your poor dog. I know. And I saw him yesterday.

I was on his Zoom. And I saw him whip by so fast from the barn to the house. And I saw a car backing up. And I was like, this might be the moment. No. This might be the moment. Or falls because of the ice. And he's an idiot.

He's 16 and he keeps running. Tries to eat everything. Anyway, the farm's great. It's great. It's great. I'm leaving again right after I talk to you. I gotta go to the city and do some concerts tonight. I don't even wanna, I don't even know.

Are you singing? Singing some stuff from the Ann Lee. And so your mom's there to hold down the fort while you go? With Tommy. And then, although he's in the city right now, because he also had a life. It's really tricky. Yeah.

Why does he get to have a life? No, it's great. It was six degrees when we got up today, and so all the animals are walking on ice. And when they have four feet, right, four legs, all of them have four legs. Four-wheel drive. It's great. And there are a lot of them in the barn. And so we got a lot of heat lamps up, and I always think about fires.

And, you know, it's managing a lot. And I understand that I chose this life, so I can't whine about it, but it's tricky. I like the word tricky. I do too. It's all encompassing. Yeah. And it's also, you have to keep an eye on, it's not that you're complaining about it. You just have a lot, a bigger set of responsibilities.

So this morning I dropped the kids off and said goodbye and cried because I should be getting my period any second. Did they cry? No. Yeah. I cried and, and their classrooms are next to each other. it's a it's a nice life and then I got back and I decided to go with the time I had help the person who's feeding right now and do the stalls and do the and take the the horse shit

out of the stalls and put new shavings in the stalls and do the buckets and stuff and that is my least favorite chore but I did it because I wanted to feel productive and like I was being helpful yeah I get that feeling a lot I always feel like what am I really contributing you know other than my personality because I don't make a ton of contributions like I can't you cook I mean I'm trying to but last night I tried to take out these sweet potatoes from the oven and the pan fell out of my hands and then all the sweet potatoes fell into the crease of the oven so I had nailed it I had made a turkey burger with cheese grilled onions and a poached egg on top I was like fuck me right now I'm the ruler of all kitchens and then I went to go take out the sweet

potatoes as a nice little accent and then everything went sideways. So I declared victory too early. So that's as like sophisticated as I've ever gotten in the kitchen was last night's turkey burger. I don't even know how to poach an egg. Oh, oh, well, great. I love being one step ahead of you in the kitchen. Oh, you're 70,000 steps ahead of me in the kitchen. I don't know anything. Well, it sounds like you know how to farm a little bit. Yeah, but that's not in the kitchen. No, but it sounds like you're making a contribution. Like, yeah. Yes, you're right. can you clean like are you good at cleaning up messes yes okay i can't do that either no i can't i just yes you can i could i guess but i don't ever heard of a clorox wipe i don't like to just

i don't like any sort of like stain removal i have to get someone else involved so hold on a second if you're all malone and one of the dogs goes too right there's one now yeah snack yeah snack and a snack takes a giant dump on your carpet snack will get put down if you did something like that that would never well he's gonna because he's gonna get old no no no no no he's first of all he's not gonna get old i will clone him before that happens secondly he's two and a half so don't get ahead of yourself and project about your 16 year old dog okay onto my all right two and a half year old snack i'm just saying i sent amanda picture of snap of doug the other day and she goes that's a snack he is a snack what's your dog's name again finn oh yeah yeah finn's been around

forever. Finn has these crazy eyes too. Doesn't he have two different color eyes? Nope. You're getting that confused with somebody else's dog. Interesting. But I do have a horse with two different color eyes. Oh yeah. You're such a farmer. I love it. Amanda, tell me why you decided to move to a farm. You know, why not? But do you think that it helps? I think it probably helps you when you go away a ton right like for your work and career it's so nice to be removed from all of that it's it's that you it's so basic here it's not it's not basic i'm like basic meaning nature is bigger than you here like yeah like you in the mountains like you're inside of this giant world and you in some ways you feel protected because nature is very powerful but it's it's not

trying to fuck with you it's not judging you it's not trying to take your job or belittle you or manipulate you it's just there and when all the noise is gone there's probably a frequency a lower frequency that you're operating on which is probably really healthy and also like you get to like worry about real things and i'm not saying that like living in hollywood or living in new york city is bad for me i'm just saying like i mean take it a chunk of it and really enjoy myself you know getting in an uber and going from one place to the next and then walking from one block to the next and getting a starbucks and a day bar bagel and a pedicure all within an hour it's dreamy, but it's, you know, it's for a good temporary fix. It can be taxing. It can be

taxing. Yeah. I don't need all that energy. I'm with you. I listen, I spend about 45 days a year max in Los Angeles because I love to just be out and about in different places. So I can relate to what you're saying. Let's, um, Catherine, you said we have a caller, right? We're going to take a quick break. We're going to be back with Amanda Seyfried and we're going to take a caller because Amanda, I think you should be giving advice to people. That's the obvious next step. And this is an advice call-in show so we're going to take a break we'll be right back the new red bull dragonberry and tropic berry energizers now at mcdonald's made with freeze-dried fruit and an electric burst of flavor the all-new red bull energizers now at mcdonald's this product may

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how about we flip the script what if the surprise woman who actually you think is the straight man is actually the one who's acting weird Adam Scott this entire time you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come

to visit the show I would never expect I would never set expectations for something like that to happen if the universe allows for something like that to happen I am open to it. I'm always going to accept.

You know, Danny McBride, fine. Yeah, it's all this fragile masculinity exuding. I could smell it walking down the hallway, to be honest with you. I was like, is that weed? Nope, it's fragile masculinity. Ben Stiller, no. Because a lot of times, out of context, people don't get it or even know what a circle is.

You know what I mean? Like, they're like, oh, what's a circle? Everyone's so dumb except for you. And fake. Right, fake. And also not interested or just like, oh, I've got my life. I don't care about your life. And a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us.

Oh, and by the way, Will Ferrell told us personally he loves the show and he wants to be a guest on every episode, but he's just so busy. Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On the new podcast, Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I chose option B.

I'm Julie Pinheiro and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word solita, trading the pity for possibility. Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting people and they were like, you smiled at us. Not a lot of people smile around here. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it. It can be a time where you push your limits, change your mind, or wake up to a new version of yourself. So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip, I hope you listen to Solita on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

and we're back with amanda cypherin and we're taking our first caller amanda okay so lock in i'm really excited about this question so angela i'm not gonna read the subject line because it kind of gives it away it's okay don't don't great she says dear chelsea i'm a 34 year old child free woman in what feels like a full-blown real life plot twist two years ago i left my job and finally chased my dream, starting my own floral business specializing in senior assisted living centers. Since then, I've been piecing a living together with part-time gigs until one of those just ended and now it's go big or go broke. But also, it's terrifying but also a little thrilling. Here's where it gets messy. Seven months ago at a giant flower conference,

I met a man who owns a rose business in Ecuador. We spent six hours talking and surprisingly fell into a long distance whirlwind romance. I love it already. I've never been known as a hopeless romantic, but he's turned out to be my exception. Since then, we've seen each other about every six weeks. Ecuador, Spain, Rome, the whole montage. It's dreamy, but draining my bank account. And while he hopes I'll eventually join him in Ecuador, I'm still trying to keep my business alive here. Do I double down on my business plan or go full eat, pray, love florist edition? Sincerely, a confused realist, Angela. Hi, Angela. First of all, you need to fucking go for it. The look in Amanda's eyes, she's in love now. Look at her. She's looking at her husband the first time they

fell in love. We all have love in our eyes. You have to go for this adventure. That is my passionate opinion about life. Anytime there's a time to take a jump and you've been given some proof that that's the right jump, you don't even need the proof. You just need to trust your instincts and go for it. What's stopping you? Yeah. I mean, I guess I just, I built my life here. I live in Buffalo. I'm not from Buffalo. And I came here eight years ago and I've like built my life here. And so it just feels so, I guess, almost wrong to let it go after I put so much work into it for a man. But then again, it's like, like I said, he's kind of my exception. it's so different you're not letting it go you're just it's still there i mean first of all buffalo

yeah i know you gotta get out just for a little while i'm like i love buffalo i know me too but it's cold it's so it's coming from a woman on a farm in the snow what is there anyone that can watch your business while you're god you go and gallivant around with your guy from ecuador i I mean, not, not fully yet, just because it's such a small business. I've been running it pretty much by myself, but I am going for a month on the 19th. So I'm going to stay there for a month just to kind of give it a little bit of a trial run. Then I guess just to see how it will all work out. I don't know. It's just, is there anyone in that month that you can have, like, try and run the business for you while you're gone just to give someone a test run? A woman?

I haven't like, yeah, obviously I haven't like set anyone up to do that yet. So I guess that would be something that I would, I'd probably think of that doing that for after, like if I go again. I know, but just to, but to give someone a trial run would give you a lot more like confidence in maintaining your business while you go and do this, just in case you need to, like, I understand giving up everything that you've built is more of a harder pill to swallow in search of romance but like if you go and you go down to Ecuador and live with this guy are you guys going to be working together down there no I would have to like find probably a remote job or a job down there where it's English speaking because even though Duolingo is great it's just

not doing it for me right now well you have to be honest are you on a streak are you on a Duolingo streak oh yeah I'm over 200 days like since the day I met him I was like oh okay that's better than me what am I talking about Amanda what do you have to say about this well listen yeah it's no small thing but I don't see it as you leaving your life for good forever it's not like you have a one-way ticket and you can't come back right it's like you life is so short it it's like what are we doing I mean if you feel something like that like that you have that kind of fire in you for this for this experience it's not for a guy it's for the experience of being in love and like traveling the world it's it's it's a big it's bigger than a guy so it's like when you characterize

it as leaving your life for a guy that's not really what's happening I mean I think you trust yourself in some ways if you're already going for a month it's true that you could hire somebody to take care of it or you can shut it down for a month and see and see how it goes But I think you take this opportunity to find someone who's willing to maybe keep it alive for you. Because if you also have that connection back to your business while you're there, as stressful as it could possibly be, it would still make you feel like you can do both. Yeah, and that you have a little income. Yeah. And also, when you say yes to life, life says yes to you. That's just what happens.

When you take big risks, you get big rewards most of the time. And, like, you've met this guy. I trust that you're a sensible person just in the short time that you've been talking. You don't seem unstable or off balance or in, you know. And I loved what Amanda just said. It's bigger than a guy. It's about being in love and about the experience of love. It doesn't matter who the person is.

So I think that you really do have to go down. Listen, you're going to go down for a month and you're going to have your answer anyway. Yeah. Yeah. I would just plan that after I wrote in. So yeah, I guess that will be a big tell. Nice. There is no better feeling than falling in love.

It is the best feeling. Yeah. The texting, the flirting, the phone calls. If you're into phone calls, I'm not. But all of it is so fun. Yeah. I have to be into phone calls now. So FaceTime.

That's the one that really gets me. Yeah, exactly. I can't take FaceTime. I got two FaceTimes yesterday, and my new policy is say yes. Answer the call. Answer the call. Because I always just put it to voicemail. I'm like, no, no, no.

And I answer both calls. And both of them were really great, fun, high-vibe, 30-minute phone calls. I'm like, I'm glad I did that. I'm going to start doing this more often. It's a nice way to connect to people. Yeah. Yeah, I feel better after the fact. Okay, well, go live your life, sister.

You're fine. You don't need us. You're going to have a great time and let us know what happens after a month and report back to Catherine so we can stay tuned. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Sounds good.

Thanks guys. All right. Have fun in Ecuador. And write about it. Yeah. Write, journal. Make sure you're journaling about it. Yeah.

Every day, like I'm going to do at least like a couple sentences I decided while I'm there just to kind of keep track of where my mind's at. So yeah, that's a good habit to get into, you know. All right. Thank you. Okay. Thanks. Take care.

Thanks. That's exciting. So funny how, I know, sometimes people are like so excited and thrilled for something and then they hold themselves back because they're like, do I really? I don't know if it's a deserve this thing, but it's like, should I? Should I? Like, yes, you should. But people are scared.

They're going to, because it's like, listen, as a woman, you give up your whole thing, your business that you built for a man. Like we, if the guy lived here and was like, okay, you have to, I don't want you working. We would say, no, get, run as fast as you can away from that guy. so it is hard as a woman when you've built something to say like oh i'm gonna abandon it yeah i understand that i'm glad you encouraged her to like have somebody else run it while you're while you're gone so she's got a little income and have it away yeah also ecuador with those airplanes exist you know i mean buffalo will still be there buffalo to ecuador yeah i choose

it sucks but also can he come here i mean does he want to yeah it doesn't sound like it's a good time for anyone from Ecuador to be coming here. But anyway. Oh, you know what? Good point. Sometimes I'm living in the, you know, in the Obama era. Well, listen, that farm will do it to you. I don't I don't blame you. It's just idyllic where you are. Well, our next caller is Lindsay. She is 33. And she says, Dear Chelsea, sorry, this is long. I love you. I met my fiance A. Braden almost 12 years ago when we were about 21 working at the same restaurant. We quickly started dating. When we first hooked up, I knew he was a keeper. On top of that, he's respectful, hilarious, and incredible listener, devoted to me and lets me know about it every single day.

I genuinely feel that I found one of the good ones. We're just now embarking on this new adventure of getting married. The time is now officially here and I'm freaking out. My parents' marriage was rough. My dad, a white American, moved to Indonesia after college to work as an accountant for an oil company where my mom, a native Indonesian, was a secretary. I think they were happily married for some time, but my dad says he had a midlife crisis in his early 40s and had an affair with a woman nearly half his age. I don't exactly know when this crisis started, but it's really all I remember of their marriage. I never witnessed any affection or kindness between my parents. In the rare times my dad was home, we all walked on eggshells.

He frequently took so-called business trips, which we eventually realized were excuses to spend time with his mistress. When he wasn't with her, she would turn her focus on us, harassing us with relentless phone calls and public outbursts causing scenes. Side note, my mom nicknamed her the B since we weren't allowed to curse. They even had a child together before my parents' divorce was finalized, and these are just some of the many painful experiences that I can't fully capture in a single email. When I was eight, my mom finally saved enough of her own money to flee to the U.S. and access the protections and rights granted to her under the American justice system as the spouse of a U.S. citizen.

For whatever reason, my dad and the bee are still together to this day, and my dad frankly seems unhappy if not miserable. To put it lightly, the bee is a nuisance at family gatherings. She's impulsive, acts inappropriately, and gives irrelevant commentary. She's not the most socially adept person and could possibly suffer from mental health issues, which I completely understand and can relate to, but there's no indication she sought professional help.

Despite this, my siblings and I have done our best to tolerate the discomfort of being civil towards her for the sake of our family. Yes, our dad is arguably a POS, but at least my brother, sister and I have an amazing superhuman mom. It's important for me to keep a positive relationship with my half siblings and offer any guidance or advice if they ever need it. But this all brings me to my dilemma. My fiance and I do not want to be at our wedding. So how do we navigate the situation? Love, Lindsay. Oh, okay. Hi, Lindsay. Hi, how are you. Hi, this is our special guest, Amanda Seyfried today. Sorry. Hi, nice to see you. I'm sorry. That's a really difficult, crappy situation. I'm so happy that you're getting

married though. And just know that like, you know, our parents don't define us at all. I couldn't be more opposite than both of my parents. Sometimes they give you like a roadmap of what not to do, you know? And so like your marriage will be completely different than the ones you, than the one your parents had just from the, how insightful you are because of this. Now your half-siblings are from the B? Yes. And how many are there? I have two half-siblings and then one stepbrother as well that she had from a previous relationship. Do they love the B? Yeah, I think so. Sorry, go ahead. No, no, that's fine. That's a fair question. So they love her and do they know how you feel about her? We've never spoken about it directly. I think there's

always some, I can tell that they also feel uncomfortable at times, you know, when she acts out. Well, I think like you have to be prepared. If you disinvite her, which you totally have every right to do, your father is probably going to not come either. There's a chance that that happens, right? Right. And I actually do have an update since I initially wrote the email. We really needed to get going on the wedding planning. And honestly, Chelsea, I knew what you were going to say to me probably is to just do it, to have a conversation with him. And he actually was really receptive and agreed to not have her come to the Bali wedding. He is also still committed to contribute financially despite that. Wow. Great. This is a great update. Thanks for bringing one.

Now, are your half-siblings, they're all going to come as well? Or some can't make it just because of other obligations. But yes, that I have extended the invites to them. Yeah. So right now it's the holidays and I'm going to have to face everyone in person pretty soon, including the bee. So it is a little bit, you know, nerve wracking. But you know what? Hold your ground. You made a boundary. You stood up for what you want at your wedding on your wedding day. That is the most important. The most important person on any wedding day is the bride. Fuck the groom. okay so the bride it's your day you created a boundary you're self-respecting you're self-preserving all of these things are really strong choices that you've made you did this

all on your own so like you're already a g like this is all good stuff and you can look at her in the eye with dignity because at least you were upfront and honest about what you want you know what I mean and then and now and just take the hot air out of it there's only tension if you allow tension to if there's two people creating tension if there's no tension coming from you she has no one to have tension with in the first place totally totally yeah I hear you and it's gonna be uncomfortable for me too but I just have to deal with it yeah you just have to deal with it and that's okay and but but you know what you don't have to deal with her at your wedding so that's great and I'm like I'm so I'm so many women are going to be listening to

this and be inspired by you and taking charge of the situation in the ways that which you did And also giving hope to other people's fathers. Like, I'm so pleased to hear that your dad was so receptive that he's still contributing financially. Your dad is probably miserable in his marriage. He probably is. I mean, she sounds, you know, not ideal. So, yeah. So congrats on everything. You already crushed it. You're calling in basically just doing a victory dance. yeah definitely no i mean i still wanted to i thought it would still be a good conversation to have with you um absolutely yeah i'm super excited also chelsea you're more than welcome to join us uh when is the wedding bali yeah i love bali uh next august is it in ubud or is it on the beach actually a little bit um southeast of ubud um in a city called mangus it's more like old bali they say just like a little less crowded and less traffic okay well why don't you katherine follow up with her because if i'm traveling in august i'll totally swing by i love bali i need

an excuse to go there oh my god i don't go listen i got invited to a lot of weddings but i will only go to someone i just met oh my god that would be a dream come true i know but don't get your hopes up i mean i can't commit but you never know with me i could show up i could just this conversation is everything, so. Oh, I love it, I love it. Thank you so much for calling in, Lindsay. Of course, thank you so much for taking the time. You got this, this is great.

Yeah, this is awesome. I hope I make it. Yeah, have so much fun, Lindsay. Oh my gosh. Congrats. Thank you. And can I just say, Chelsea, I've been following you for a long time.

I used to watch Chelsea Lately every single night. And, you know, sometimes we kind of live in a dark world. So I really appreciate you for bringing laughter and joy to the world. yeah i love your comedy and what you do so keep at it thank you thank you so much you know what also katherine hook her up with two tickets for next year's tour sure because i'm doing a tour the high and mighty tour we're gonna and i'm sure i'm coming to a city near you if i haven't announced it yet i'll be announcing more dates but we're gonna hook you up with tickets so you

can come and say hi oh my god thank you so much i know you're coming to denver and i haven't been able to make it to um one of your shows i really wanted to go to the red rocks one but i just couldn't make it happen so i really appreciate that that's okay we'll make it happen at the paramount in denver i'm coming there yes absolutely we're gonna make it happen okay fun i love it i love it thanks thank you so much have fun okay bye oh you're fucking santa claus oh my god i feel like santa claus it's the christmas season you guys isn't it nice though to know that you're gonna be like in different cities like if you know specifically where you're gonna be and like you can offer that to people and just like and you're giving access with this with this show

people can call it's just you also two for two like some pretty badass women just called in like I don't know I'm here for it I love it I love it all right we're gonna take a break and we're gonna come back and um wrap up with Amanda and we're back with Amanda Seyfried the new red bull dragonberry and tropic berry energizers now at mcdonald's made with freeze dried fruit and an electric burst of flavor the all-new red bull energizers now at mcdonald's this product may not be right for you high in caffeine details at mcdonald's.ca and participating canadian restaurants excluding quebec when i was 14 years old i was kidnapped and held captive for nine months i survived and i've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should

have destroyed them i'm elizabeth smart and these are the survivor files i just remember this low taunting voice next to my ear saying shut up don't say anything every week i'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable i knew if he woke up without a doubt he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced. But these aren't stories about what's taken from them. They're stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If your bookshelf and your For You page are equally

important to your personality, welcome home. This is Prose Society, the weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture obsessives, and anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice and Love Island deserve the same level of discourse. I'm Eli Rallo and every week we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and the conversations everyone can't stop having. I'm gonna have to look up this story. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. From best-selling authors and your favorite book talk creators to the latest pop culture moments, nothing is off the table. It's like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters, then that is a Trojan horse. Whether you're looking for literary deep dives, smart pop culture conversations,

or a community of readers who love to think a little too much, you're in the right place. Listen to Pro Society on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See you between the pages. Hey, this is Hayes Davenport and Sean Clements. We host the podcast Hollywood Handbook on the Big Money Players Network. Our show is extremely accessible to first-time listeners. Each week, we talk to someone in show business, a.k.a. the biz, and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us.

Everyone has a good time, and no one gets mad at their publicist for letting them do our show. We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman. Not that great. Actually, can you help me shape this? How about we flip it on its head? how about we flip the script okay what is the surprise woman who actually you think is the straight man is actually the one who's acting weird adam scott this entire time you've been

expecting adam sandler to come to visit the show i i would never let go of that i have i would never set expectations for something like that it seems like if the universe allows for something like that to happen i'm open to it i'm always going to accept you know danny mcbride fine yeah it's all this fragile masculinity exuding i could smell it walking down the hallway to be honest i was like is that weed nope it's fragile masculinity ben stiller no because a lot of times in out of context people don't get it or even know what a circle is you know what i mean like they're like oh what's the state everyone's so dumb except for you fake right fake and and also not interested or just like oh i've got my life i don't care about your life and a lot of

other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us oh and by the way will ferrell told us personally he loves the show and he wants to be a guest on every episode but he's just so busy listen to hollywood handbook on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. On the new podcast, Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I chose option B. I'm Julie Pinheiro and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita, trading the pity for possibility. Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting people

and they were like, you smiled at us. Not a lot of people smile around here. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it. It can be a time where you push your limits, change your mind, or wake up to a new version of yourself. So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip, I hope you listen to Solita on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. One of my favorite people, I really, ever since I first interviewed Amanda, I was probably on Chelsea Lately. It was. I've loved her.

She is so fucking funny. She's weird and she says things that are inappropriate. I love that. and you're not like an actor actor even though you're a great actor you're you don't take yourself seriously and I think that is really the ingredient that makes people the most likable is when they don't take themselves so seriously thanks and it was like like I reached out to you after the shit a shit storm recent shit storm which I'm not used to used to operating in a shit storm but it happened and like I reached out to you I don't know why I felt like you were

we're similar that we don't take ourselves very seriously and you are actually a comedian and but you actually know your you know your shit and it was like it made me feel so much better to think for for like at least like you're like you're fine I don't know why you know what I mean it's something that you had posted I don't know no no no I understand but before we close I just want to ask you how did you meet your husband on stage I mean I I did a stage play the last time the first and last time I will ever do that to myself and my psyche did you know right did you what was it like when you like when you guys locked in I mean I guess it was a little kind of a long you know when that happens like we were both involved with other people but like and I

also didn't know like I I just assumed he thought I was a loser because that's kind of how I you know viewed myself um when it came to men uh i worked on it i no longer feel that way but um thank god but i was you know like 30 or 29 and i was in a um like a dead-end relationship and i think a part of me had opened at that point because i was so done with feeling like shit because of relationships you mean i was in a relationship where i was completely just like not seen but I was also like oh I want to settle down you know I had the dream of the kids you know very early on and but but so I part of me was kind of opened up and when I'm when I met him I was just like I really liked his voice and I like the fact that he like salt and pepper hair he's only

like nine years older than me but for some reason and he was like a he's a feeder guy so he his feet were so solidly on the ground when it came to that kind of work and I was so scared I was like floating and I felt like he kind of in some way figuratively kind of pulled me down and helped me through and supported me and had this like unconditional support of me in that in that new realm that I was in and I had this amazing director Lee Silverman and I just felt really safe and seen and I it was a new wild new experience that scared me and I think when you're really scared and you have someone who's like here take my hand you kind of can't help but fall in love with something about them.

Whether they're a man or a woman, you feel safe. And I felt safe with him. And then the show was over. He went back to LA. My relationship ended, thank God, mercifully, like immediately, even before the show ended. And then we talked a little bit,

but then come January of that next year, he was out of his relationship. And it was so scary though. It was so scary to commit to somebody because I was like I'd been kind of burned in my last relationship so committing with him as a person who was free like a real because when I was with him in the show he wasn't a real he wasn't an opportunity he was there was no opportunity there he was with somebody I just was like oh I know how this feels this is what I want doesn't have to be him but I know how

this feels and then of course it was so messy that summer just like dealing with like the the like ongoing, just like ongoing trauma of a breakup and then talking and then like keeping the break. It was just like, yuck. And then I crocheted myself into oblivion here on the farm because I had already bought the farm and I was all alone watching Felicity. I watched Felicity.

She's another favorite of mine, Carrie. Within four days, I watched the entire Four Seasons. Was it Four Seasons? And I was crocheting fucking Christmas stockings. And I had my friend, my best friend, Peter, who I'm sure you know from Netflix, now he's at Amazon, came to see me and was like, are you okay out here? I'm like, I'm fine. I'm just getting ready for the Christmas season. And it was October.

So I was great. I was single. I wasn't great. um so like that was and going through all that and being alone and being like out here in the woods with nobody for an extended period of time i went back to la for christmas because my sister was out there and we all went to la for christmas and then i started like meditating and i was just so lost really like horrible breakup extended breakup and then in january i was like i was like meditating with Alan Arkin like it was in January I um oh dear we met up at his place in LA

and dear so many dear you need to take a Vyvanse or something did you take your Vyvanse today or your Adderall because you need oh my god I forgot to take my Lexapro today oh my god you just reminded me okay oh my god I didn't take it last night okay I didn't take it last night okay well go take it right now you saved my day you don't understand but anyway it was great that's how i met him long story short that's how i met him what was the moment where you guys decided to be together did you call him or did he call you um i berated him because i saw him like a pot like like another person's instagram and i was like oh so you're gonna like like now you're free like i was an asshole to him and then we you know reconnected but i was an asshole to him i believe

and he understood that that meant i cared about him yes and i was like oh you you need to go live and fucking say say for qua can't do the accent i was like good luck and he was like oh she really likes me and she's jealous yeah that's how that's how damaged women show affection is by berating a man when we're that's how you know we've been bruised but you know what also about damaged women we can fucking fix ourselves and then we can be whole again and we don't need a man to do that once we fix ourselves we can hold it down yeah yeah and but it's nice that he held you down on the theater in the theater during the play he held you down and then you held it down for yourself so there we go now yeah and then like cut two years later he held me down and i got

pregnant. Okay. On that note, we want you to go take your Lexapro. Go take it right now. Get off this and go take it. This never happens. I fell asleep with my son last night and I forgot to take my meds. Your son is a great rapper, by the way. I loved that video. I love you, Amanda. Did you want to say something more? I love you too. There's always something more to say, isn't there? I'm going to go take my medicine now. Okay. Bye, honey. Have a great day. Holy shit. Love you guys. I just announced all my tour dates.

It's called the High and Mighty Tour. I will be touring from February through June. So go get your tickets now. If you want good seats and you want to come see me perform, I will be on the High and Mighty Tour. Do you want advice from Chelsea? Write into DearChelseaPodcast at gmail.com. Find full video episodes of Dear Chelsea on YouTube

by searching at Dear Chelsea Pod. Dear Chelsea is edited and engineered by Brad Dickert, executive producer, Catherine Law. And be sure to check out our merch at ChelseaHandler.com. I survived nine months in captivity, and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart, and these are The Survivor Files.

Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable, abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced. These are stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If your bookshelf and your For You page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. Pro Society is a weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice and Love Island deserve the same level of discourse. Each week, we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and pop culture

with your favorite writers, book talk creators, and plenty of overthought opinions. Yeah, I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. Listen to Pro Society on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Did you hear the new episode of the Hey Jonas podcast? We are at D23, so we'll see who stops by. The cast of Frozen stopped by. Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, and Idina Menzel. I auditioned for Frozen.

What? For Kristoff. They said, okay, what are you going to be singing today? I said, I don't know. That must have been why you didn't get it. Oh, you probably won. Plus, John Stamos, Hayden Christensen from Star Wars, and more. And I guess I can share that, uh...

No way. Listen to the latest episode of Hey Jonas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, this is Hayes Davenport. And Sean Clements. We host the podcast Hollywood Handbook. Each week, we talk to someone in show business and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us.

Everyone has a good time, and no one gets mad at their publicist for letting them do our show. We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman, Adam Scott, Danny McBride, Ben Stiller, and a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us. Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On the new podcast, Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus, or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I chose option B. I'm Julie Pinheiro, and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first.

I'm on a mission to reclaim the word solita, trading the pity for possibility. Listen to Solita on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human.