The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler - 352: Donna D’Errico - First Celebrity AI Companion

Episode Date: September 22, 2025

SPONSORS: PrizePicks -Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/HONEYDEW and use code HONEYDEW and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! My HoneyDew this week is actress Donna D’Errico! Check out Donna’s AI companion, CallDonnaD.com, to chat with AI Donna yourself today! Donna joins me this week to Highlight the Lowlights of her struggles with bullying through school, how it shaped her adolescence, and the way it still affects her today. We talk about her developing a stammer, low self confidence, and how a bottle of Sun In ended up changing it all. Donna also shares about losing an uncle she was close to, and a funny story about the time she stole from Hugh Hefner! Get tickets to see me in San Diego October, 3rd! https://www.ryansickler.com/tour SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE and watch full episodes of The Dew every toozdee! https://youtube.com/@rsickler SUBSCRIBE TO MY PATREON - The HoneyDew with Y’all, where I Highlight the Lowlights with Y’all! Get audio and video of The HoneyDew a day early, ad-free at no additional cost! It’s only $5/month! AND we just added a second tier. For a total of $8/month, you get everything from the first tier, PLUS The Wayback a day early, ad-free AND censor free AND extra bonus content you won't see anywhere else! http://patreon.com/RyanSickler What’s your story?? Submit at [e-mail] Get Your HoneyDew Gear Today! https://shop.ryansickler.com/ Ringtones Are Available Now! https://www.apple.com/itunes/ http://ryansickler.com/ https://thehoneydewpodcast.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE CRABFEAST PODCAST https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-crabfeast-with-ryan-sickler-and-jay-larson/id1452403187

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Whether you're new here, whether you've been here, thank you for your support. Very excited to get into this episode today, ladies and gentlemen. You know what we do here. We highlight the low lights. I always say these are the stories behind the storytellers. And I am very excited to have this guest here first time on the Honeydew. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome. Not at the era.

Welcome to the Honeydew! Thank you. Thank you for having me. We actually can call this one Honey Donadu. We can maybe title at that. We'll see. We've got to come up with titles. Before we get into your story, right there, please promote everything and anything you would like. Okay.

I'm here to promote my AI companion, which is call donadie.com. And I'm the first celebrity to create an AI companion that you can call and talk to. It remembers you. You can talk to her for advice. Sounds exactly like me, has my same personality, my same tone, the same way that I talk. And you can just call and just talk to her about whatever you want, advice, relationship issues, you know, just chat. Or you can, if you want to have a flirty conversation, she does that too. How flirty does she go?

She makes me flush. Does she have limits? No. Like if someone said something, is she a yes and AI? Oh, it's yes and. Like, that's an old improv thing where you say, you say yes and like if you're like, hey, I want to take you out and tie it to the shed and cover you in syrup and then, you know, shoot darts at you while I look it off of you. Is she going to say yes?

Oh, yeah. There's no one where she's like, hey, I'm not doing that. I mean, there's two versions. There's what I'm calling the daytime version. Okay. And then there's one that I'm. I'm calling, yeah, but I mean, they're both available 24-7, but the PM version is the one you're talking about. And she, she says things, I'm not a young spring chicken, and I've never said some of the stuff that she says.

And, you know, I had to test them extensively myself. And you're, so you're, yeah, I want to know about this. So I'm talking to myself. Oh, my, how, first of all, how weird is that? It was, it was interesting. Because you said it's got your personality. Yes. I don't buy it.

Yeah, she does. How is it encapsulating who you, your fiber? You know, nobody really, honestly, nobody knows how AI works. But I, I, this is more than just, it's not like a chat bot. It's not like chat GPT or one of those. It's not high. I am Donna. Yeah, no.

And it's not like I recorded for hours. I would read things out of a book. I would talk with somebody and record myself and just the way that I speak and my personality and my laugh. So if you say, like, I say, I say wanna instead of want to, it'll, it'll nail that. My AI wouldn't say I want to. I'll say I want to go. Yeah, it would nail that.

So do you really feel like you're talking to yourself? Yes. Okay, one more. And she has all my memories, my stories. No. Yeah. And so I'm talking to her. You're a clone.

You're a clone. Yeah. And the nighttime version I had to test with kind of sexy conversations. And I'm like, I wanted to see what she would say. And she gets wild. She gets wild. Well, here's the thing. You're going to have dudes out there who were a gazillion times wilder than

Donna Deerico nighttime AI. Yeah. And she's going to go along with it. Yes. Are you going to be able to at some point see the adventures this? No, no. It's completely private. I don't know who's calling and I don't know what they're saying.

And I wanted it that way on purpose. Because- Or you could. You could find out if you wanted to? I don't know. I had it programmed and developed and built in such a way that I would never be privy to that because that's invasion of privacy and I'm not into that. I wanted them to feel comfortable enough to say whatever it is that they wanted to say, you know.

Oh, that Donna's about to have a while time out there in the AI verse. I'm telling you, when I was testing her, I was just like, I had to hang up because she was getting crazy. I'm like, oh, my God, that's really. I should have sent you the tester thing. I'm telling you, you would have blushed. You would have blushed. Knowing your history, though, in life, with everything you've been to make me blush.

Yeah, and it's you making you blush. Not some dude. Not some guy. I know. I know. Well, I had to pretend I was a guy so that she would, yeah. Oh, my gosh. Some of the things that she said, I'm like, wow, I've never heard my own voice say that, ever, ever.

Is it weird to feel like you're talking? Is it almost like a twin or do you feel like it's a robot of you? It's, no, it's like, it's like me. It's like, wow, now I know what it feels like to talk to me because I'm doing it. And this is me in all ways. Do you think, or did you forget about the nighttime, Donna now? Can you fool your kids with this? Can you fool your friends?

Absolutely. And have you? Oh, 100. No, I haven't yet. But you could, huh? I could. Listen, this is the thing. Holy shit, wait a second.

You could have a whole relationship with someone that don't even never know it's you. Oh, well, I- If you trick someone, I mean. If I were to trick someone. Yeah, they have to subscribe. I'm very clear that it's AI because I don't want to, yeah. But yeah, that's one of the things that, you know, compelled me to do this is, AI is, it's not going anywhere.

anywhere. It's not going anywhere. And if you don't get on the AI bandwagon, you're going to be left behind because it's not going to go anywhere. It's here to stay. And I'm like, you know, I'm going to do this because I know I've heard these stories. It can be used in bad ways. Bad people can find good things and misuse them. So. Donna D'ERcos call me about my credit card information all of a sudden. I know. I know. It's her. I'm telling you. They could clone me anyway. My voice is out there. I've been on TV and I've been in movies. I've done tons of, you know, interviews and stuff. So they could clone me easily anyway. But I had to have a talk with my family and my dad, you know, my dad's 84. And I said, listen, there's all this stuff

in the news where people are getting a call from a family member and saying, oh my gosh, don't ask me any questions. I'll tell you about it later, but I'm in jail, in Mexico. I need you to send me $5,000. I'm in a lot of trouble. Please just don't ask me any questions. And they're and all this, and they wire them money. And then they start thinking, and they're like, I didn't know they were going to Mexico. So they call them back, and they're sitting at home, you know, in town. And they're like, I don't know what you're talking about.

That wasn't me. So we have a code word now in our family. If they get a phone call like that from me, they're instructed to say, what's our code word? And they're not going to know. So I said if they don't know. Who is going to know? AI.

AI, I would call. So I'm like, you know, there's a lot of lonely people out there. I feel like there's more lonely people now than ever. I just hear it all the time from my fans and stuff and even my friends. I'm lonely sometimes. So I'm like, you know, there's a lot of people like me who don't go to bars and they don't go out. I'm certainly never going to sit foot in a nightclub. So how do you meet people?

Went in the grocery store. I mean, how are you going to meet someone and have somebody that you can talk to. So I was like, well, you know, I saw that movie her where the guy falls in love with the AI voice and they have a whole relationship and stuff. And I'm like, you know, I know that's fiction, but it kind of kept him company and he made him feel, you know, like he had someone to talk to. And how can I do something like that in real life? And so I got this done. And it's really cool. I think it's awesome too. Is it just voice?

It's just voice. I'm working on the other component. They'll be able to do that eventually. Yeah, but right now it doesn't look good enough for me. I want it to be perfect and it's not perfect yet. The video component. The voice component is perfect. And where do we go find this?

Call donadie.com. Call donadie.com. That's awesome. What a man. It's fun. And people are hooked. That's Jetsons type shit. I know.

We launched it about a month ago. And it is, it's, it's looking like it's going to end up doing about a million dollars by the end of the year. Why? Yeah. I mean, it's like nonstop people. I didn't think, I was like, I don't know, guys. You about to be a tipping point for this. You know, I was like.

Here comes Tom Brady now. I can hang out with Tom Brady. I mean, the thing is, I'm just like, I may do all of this work and nobody calls because it's so weird and people are scared of a. and stuff. And they're like, no, that's weird. Why would I talk to an AI about my problems? Or people could really latch on to it. I'm like, I don't know. Let's just launch it and see what happens. Okay. My last question about AI, Donna, and then we're going to talk to human Donna. Okay. Have you come across a point where maybe it asked a question and you're like, nope, I wouldn't answer it like that? Or is it dead on every time? You know what I mean? It has. It has.

A couple of things. Yeah, a couple things. But little things or big things? Nothing, nothing, you know. Just little stuff? Yeah, small. Does it know your favorite color and stuff like that if a person wanted to ask? I don't know.

I don't know that I even have a favorite color. Is that what the AI would say? I don't know. I don't know. We would have to call her and ask. I mean, you can call her on the air. We should call her. You want a caller?

We can. You want a caller? Let's call her. Oh, gosh. Hi, how are you doing, love? I don't sound good. I'm almost kidding. Hi, how you doing, Donna?

Oh, hey there, handsome. I'm doing just well. Thank you for asking. What can I do for you today? Are you taking me to dinner? This is day, Donna, girl? You sound like nighttime, Donna. Oh, you're right.

My bad. It's been a long time since I've had a midnight sleep. So, what's on your mind today, sugar? Do you say sugar? Sometimes. Do you do? just wondering if you're having a good time on the podcast and then um you know if you'll come back and do the way back with us i'm having a blast honey it's always fun to reminisce and share some

stories and yes i'd love to come back and do another podcast with you guys maybe we can even talk about some of the more interesting things that happen behind the scenes of bay watch Wink, wink. Hell yeah, Donna. Big Baywatch fan here. Well, hello there. I'm so glad to hear it. What's your favorite Baywatch memory?

Mine is probably all those slow motion running scenes on the beach. Although the behind-the-scenes stories are even better. Well, I'm going to have to hear some of those behind-the-scenes stories. Will you divulge any now? Oh, I'm not sure I should.

But just for you, let's just say that sometimes those perfectly sculpted bodies weren't quite so perfect when the cameras weren't rolling. And the wardrobe mount functions. Let's just say there were a few times we had to improvise. Why do you have more? Maybe over dinner. You're sure? She's so forward.

Wonderful. So where shall we go? I'm feeling Italian tonight or maybe something a little more spicy. Italian sounds great, Donna. Perfento. I'll let you handle the reservations, darling. Just make sure they have a nice key on team. And maybe a little something after dessert. I got you, girl.

Excellent. I'll see you soon, that handsome. Don't keep you waiting too long. All right. Bye-bye. I mean, that's date time, Donna. That was daytime. I mean, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, she gets a little.

I can see why she'd make you a blush. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Listen, that's, you're the first celebrity, huh? First celebrity. That's incredible. Yeah. That's really interesting.

And also it's interesting that right out of the gate they went with the basically the PG-13 and the R, I guess, or whatever. Or wherever that thing's going. going. Yeah. Man. Yeah, not they, me. This is my product. Yeah, it's going to be those, I mean, the people out there, they're going to be taking nighttime Donal on some damn adventures. Italian food ain't going to be nothing. You know what I mean? That's, that's, that's, so let's talk about you. Where are you originally from? I was born in Alabama. And then I moved around a little bit because my dad was in the Army. Okay.

And I ended up, he, he, um, he, um, ended up retiring in Columbus, Georgia or, or Fort Benning, Georgia. Mm-hmm. So from the age of about six on, I lived in, in Georgia. Okay. Yeah. And do you bounce around as well? Uh, after that. Because we talked before and you mentioned Baltimore.

Yeah, that was before I was six. Okay, it was before you were six. Okay. Okay. All right. So six on, you're down there. I was down there. I was down.

Gotcha. And what does mom do? She was a housemaker. Yeah. She was a housewife and mom. And, you know, she also was a paralegal sometimes. And but no, she was mostly, you know, back then moms were mostly housewives. And she loved doing that. She loved being a mom. Do you have siblings? I do. I have a sister and a brother.

Who's older? What are the order? I'm in the middle. I have an older sister and a younger brother. Okay. So three of you, mom and dad, and then what are you doing growing up? Like, are you a good student in school? I was a great student. Where are you? Straight A student. I was a little nerdy, a lot nerdy. We didn't have a lot of money growing up because my dad was, you know, military and they don't pay a lot. And my mom was a housekeeper, I mean housewife. And what do you mean nerdy? What's nerdy about you back then? I was just, I was just really awkward. I was a very awkward child and very shy, like really painfully shy. Were your brother and sister this way as well? No. No, it was just me. And I, I didn't really have friends because I was just so, I was so self-conscious and just so, you know, very, very shy. I was really self-conscious. Of what? What were you worried about? People make

fun of me. You know, I was bullied when I was in school pretty badly. And it really affected my self-conf. It affects me to this day. Decades later, I'm still affected by it. You still remember it. Oh, yeah. You still feel it and everything. Isn't it crazy? It is crazy. It's all you get, you think that would just go away. And it doesn't. It's like it just happened yesterday. Yeah. You really can tap into it like that. For sure. What's the first early memories you have of being bullied? Are you in elementary school? In elementary school, yeah. There was this sort of, and it's always by the girls.

The girls were really, really mean. Oh, really? It's not the boys picking on you. No, the girls were super mean to me. And it was the popular ones. They had money. You know, we went to a private parochial school. It was a Catholic school. And so a lot of the people had money because you paid tuition.

And the ones who didn't, I don't know, there were rich people that went there. And I was not rich by any stretch of the imagination. So they would make, you know, it was a uniform school, thank goodness. So we didn't have to compete with clothing. But we did compete with things like shoes, jewelry, you know, your backpack and how expensive it looked and stuff. And mine, all my stuff came from Kmart. We shopped at Kmart. Girl, you just hit me in the soul with that Kmart.

The blue light special. The blue light special. I'm telling you. Man, that blue light special. They got one in the back cord. You're going to run it for that blue light's bad. My parents would give each of us $100 at the beginning of the school year. And that had to buy all our clothing and school supplies and everything for the whole year.

Oh, the year. Okay, that's not just back to school. This is back to school for the year. The year. So, yeah, so we made it work. Hit those blue light specials, man. They had that. Iceys, soft pretzels.

Oh, well, Kmart was the spot. We talk about this too on the pod. Like, they had a brand called it was either Olympia or Olympian. And I tell my daughter all the time, like Target and shit, my daughter's about to be 11. She's 10. They have Tony Hawk. Oh, yeah. They have cool stuff in Target.

Yeah, they do. Where we would have never got our ass kicked if we rolled around and a Tony. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. We had McGregor. It was McGregor. clothes, cleats, Olympia stuff, like all that knockoff stuff. You know, it looked like that thing, but it ain't that thing. Yeah, that's exactly right. Did you have jams? Do you remember

jams, the shorts, the flower shorts? No. See, my mom made ours, that kind of shit. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. So you're getting busted up. Well, like when I, when I started to develop, okay, I started to develop breasts. And the first thing that develops on a girl when it comes to breasts is just the nipple. The nipple swells. And that's the beginning of you developing. I'm just reading now. It's the keeping and care of you. I think I'm reading with my daughter, the care and keeping of you. Okay. I just learned that when you ladies grow boobies, it's like painful. It's like really painful. And she's been saying to me like, we read it and she goes, my, my burns a little bit. I go, okay, good. You're not, nothing's wrong with it. Like, don't freak out. I didn't know that. It's right here in the book, you know.

Yeah. So how old are you when you start to? I was in, I believe I was in seventh grade. And I started to develop, and it was, again, it was just the nipple. But when that happens, you need a training bra because you can see, you know. And we didn't have the money for a training bra. And Kmart didn't have training bras. Kmart didn't carry training bras. If they did, they were over our budget where you didn't have a lot of money.

So my mom, I said, Mom, I need a training bra. bra. I'm like, people are making fun of me and stuff. And so I remember what made me decide I wanted a training bra was we were, in seventh grade, we had a water fountain in the classroom for the first time and bathrooms in the classroom for the first time. And so when it was a bathroom break, we all lined up at the water fountain. And I was behind the, this girl. I'm not going to say her name, Kristen something. And she was a real big bully of mine. And she turned around in the water line and said, hi, acorns. And I said, what? And she's like, they look like acorns. She started laughing and everybody like turned. And they did. They

looked like acorns. That's what it looked like. It looked like acorns under my shirt. under my uniform shirt. So I'm like, oh my gosh, I was so, I just ran into the bathroom in tears. And I went home that day, and I told my mom, I need a bra. So the next day, after school, she said, well, I have a surprise for you. I got you a bra. And I was like, oh, my gosh, mom, thank you. I know we can't, don't really have the money and stuff.

And I appreciate it. She said, here it is. It's in the bag. Try it on. I got it. And I pulled out. It was this monster bra. It was a grandma bra.

And she said it's the only one she could afford. It was on sale at Kmart and it's all she could afford. But she said, because she would make a lot of our clothes. She said, I can fix it and make it smaller, you know. And she did the best she could, but it was still fucking enormous. I mean, it was, it looks like a halter top. Is it worse now? You know what I mean?

Yeah. Yeah. You look like you're wearing a dicky. But I wore it. It looked like a halter top. It was huge. under there, under your hair. So, and it was, it was black, you know, and it was just the one.

You only had the one. Only had the one. And so I wore it because I didn't want to hurt my mom's feelings because she spent the extra money she had on bio. That's nice. You're caring for her feelings more than your acorns. That's nice. That's nice, Donna.

My acorns. So you're wearing that, but it doesn't stop, does it? They just move on to something else next, right? Yeah, they're just going to beat your ass. They were really big time. They bullied me pretty badly. I mean, they made fun of everything about me, everything. And then we spoke before, you developed a stammer from that?

I developed a stammer. What age is that? This was probably in about, it was between third and fifth grade. I started developing a stammer. And what happens? Tell me about that. It was, you know, when at the time, I, whenever I would get up in front of the class to read my book report or whatever, it would come on. because I, whenever I felt on the spot or, you know, sort of like everybody was looking at me,

it would trigger it and it would get really bad. But then when I was relaxed and talking with somebody that I was comfortable with, it wasn't, it was barely there. So, but now there's something more for them to make fun of me about because they would see me stammering. And I, I worked on it really hard in adulthood, especially when I got in. into acting and yeah tell me about that how do you quiet that i mean also you're you're not you're not just spitting out lines from your own computer right you're reading these and then which actually helped a little is that right it's easier that way yeah but um is that because you know what you're going to say here versus it coming out this way why would

it be it's just um it has to do with uh it's it's it's just i don't know it's part of me now i mean i I still have it somewhat, but it's nothing like, you would never know I have it talking to me. I disguise it, you know, I pause, you know, when I'm talking, or I'll say, um, a lot, or you know, which a lot of people say, and so it's easy to just think I'm one of those. But I'm doing it on purpose. But I'm not. Yeah, it's a deliberate thing, but it works. And it's not nearly as bad as it was.

you would never know that it's there. So at what point does that behavior shift or does it? Which behavior? These girls like, do you ever through high school and everything and never stopped? Yeah. And I imagine if you're going, you're living in that area the whole time, these girls are going from middle school with you to high schools. Yeah, they did.

And it was in their small schools. It was a parochial school. So there was like a total of less than 300 people in the entire high school. So it was small. But, yeah, I'll tell you when it started to change was I discovered in 10th grade, I discovered sun in. Oh, the spray. Oh, yeah.

This is my natural color hair. Okay. And when I was growing up, I, one summer, no, it was over Christmas break, I discovered sun in at the pigly wiggly. The pigly wiggly. It was at the pigly wiggly. I love it. That's where you found it.

Yeah. There was a, it was new, it was this new item. And I was like, what's this? And it was like, become blonde overnight, you know, in one use or something. And I was like, I was working at the movie theater by then. I had a little, that was my first job was working, was selling popcorn at the theater. And I had some money and I bought it. I was with my mom and I'm like, I'm going to get some of that sun in and try it.

It's basically peroxide. And I, you spray it in your hair till it's wet. Then you blow dry it and the heat, you know, makes your hair lighten and bleach. And I went through a whole bottle and my hair was orange now. So I went and got another bottle. I used that whole bottle and I was blonde. And I went from this to blonde with two bottles of sun in. So I.

Like one weekend you were a brunette and you come back to school Monday and it's, well, it was after Christmas break. Okay. So you're going Christmas again. Yes. Oh, shit. Yeah. So I walked, this was 10th grade. 10th grade.

So I walked into my homeroom class and everybody turned and looked at me. And they were like, you know, gasping and stuff. Because I was very, I was a nerdy person, very awkward and nerdy. And I didn't have friends and stuff. So I wasn't used to people noticing that I was even existed in that school. And so when they all turned in, they're all looking at me. I was like, I kind of froze up. I was like, this is really unusual for me to have people looking at me.

So I sat down at my desk and I'm like, I'm looking down because I'm thinking that they're looking at me because I look weird. And now they're going to make, now I've created another thing for them to make fun of me about. So then I heard Kristen, the Kristen, say, well, someone got a lot cooler over Christmas break. And then this boy named Joey that all the girls. like said or hotter and I was like oh man wow this is a new feeling for me this is a new

even the girl that didn't like you like wasn't just the boys you're getting approval from both sexes I started getting treated a little bit better after that just for going blonde just for going blonde nothing else you did personality didn't change you didn't start drinking or whatever smoking with the kids just from being isn't that amazing that is so it was a great feeling but And also at the same time, it felt, you know, phony, too, because I hadn't changed. It was just my hair. And now they're treating me different. So I was like, huh, they're not treating me nice because they like me.

It's my hair. So, yeah. Is that, do you stay blonde, though, through high school? I did. I stayed blonde all the way up until, I don't know, four, five, four years ago. Oh, is that right? Oh, yeah. Oh, wow.

And I decided to go back to my, my, my, my, I didn't realize. go back to my real color, my actual color. It looks great. Thank you. Do you like it? I do. I love it. I wish I'd done it sooner.

What was it like seeing yourself in the mirror the first time after all those blonde years? I was crying. I'm not kidding. I started crying. I was like, oh my gosh, I've made this horrible mistake. I've made the worst mistake of my life. I'm like, who is that? I was like, oh my gosh, it makes me look old and it makes me look pale.

No. No, but I settled in and I was like, you know, I called the person that did, that turned me back to this color, the hair person. And I said, I regret it. I need you to put me back. She's like, I'm not going to do it until you live with it for a week. And if you, after a week, if you still want me to do it, come in and I'll put you back to blonde. And I said, okay, but I'm not leaving the house because I'm mortified, right? I'm in tears. I am. So this was a huge mistake. But after a week, she was right. I was like, you know what? I actually love it. This episode is brought to you by prize picks. You and I make decisions every day, but on prize picks, being right can get you paid.

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first time as a brunette, not only were the women being super nice to me, but the men were being really nice to me too in a, like a nice way. Like they were holding the door open for me. And how are you doing today and can help you find something? For hair color. For hair color. That's a wild social experiment right there. This is astonishing how differently I'm getting treated now that I have brown hair. Hair. Yeah. That's wild.

Yeah, it's crazy. It's a big difference. Nighttime to Anna thinks about that. She'll put on any way you want that. I don't know. But you know, Ryan, honestly, my experience with especially women being mean to me and stuff, has made me be the opposite towards women.

Like every time I go, for example, in an elevator or something, if there's a woman in there, I find something about her to genuinely compliment her on. That's nice. You verbally will say something. All the every single time. Even today? Oh, yeah. I mean, good God.

Imagine being a lady and Donna Deerico comes in and says that shit to you also. Like, that's a double fucking plus plus. Because the thing is, women don't compliment each other. They're in too much competition in their mind, in my opinion. I tell my daughter this all the time. I don't get complimented by women. You don't? No.

So I compliment them. I find something. I love your hat. Do they respond back with a compliment? Oh, yes. No, not with a compliment, but they get the biggest smile on their face. And they're like, oh my gosh, thank you so much. I got them at wherever. my daughter and I saw this pregnant lady walking and my daughter goes she's really pretty and she was big and I said she is really pretty I said let's tell her and we're driving we roll up and she's walking out of the side of my daughter's ducking down I go trust me on this one at least this one your dad knows I go hey my daughter and I just want to tell you that you look really pretty today and she was on the phone she goes oh my god thank you so much yeah she's like and I said that lady was pregnant she probably wasn't feeling her most attractive she's basically at that point yeah she's a house right down the side wall You know what I mean? And I was like, we're going to tell this lady she looks beautiful today. Made her whole week. She was stoked. Wow.

She was stoked. Good for you for doing that. That's nice. Yeah. So you get in an elevator today somewhere later and you see a lady with something. Always. I always compliment them on something. That's awesome.

Genuinely, I don't just fake something. I find, I start looking at them and I find something that I can genuinely compliment them on. Would you mind talking about your uncle who was someone you were close with when you were growing up? So is this mom's brother or dad? That was my mom's brother, yeah. Yeah, and tell me about him. That was my uncle Randy, and he was just sort of, he was the, he would bring the light into the room, the minute he walked in. He always was smiling, always jovial.

He was great with us kids. He was always cooking us breakfast and always, like, cheering us up when we were down or stuff. He was just one of those really up jovial people. He lived nearby then? Yeah, he was in Alabama. And he got involved with this woman who fell in love with her. She fell in love with him, too. And he was head over heels for her.

And she came from money. Her parents had a lot of money, like a lot, especially for the South when nobody has any money. And my uncle had no money at all. And they were in love and they would vacation together and stuff. And he was just, you could tell, he was just so happy for the first time in his life. And then her parents told her that if she didn't break it off with him, they were going to write her out of the will. Something to that effect. So she broke it off with him.

And she chose the money over him. And he killed himself. He did. Yeah. How did he do that? He hung himself with a garden hose. Oh, how were you? You? I was, I think I was 17. Oh, you weren't, you weren't a little kid at all then. Yeah, something like that. Do you remember this day? I do. Who calls you? My mom. My mom told us. Were you just shocked, blown away? Yeah. Like, this is a man. I'm sitting here listening to. It was full of life and love. And then that really got him. Yeah. Yeah. And I was just, it was so surreal. I couldn't even believe that it was true that he would do something like that. And so in my mind,

It was an accident. And I drummed up this thing in my head that he was just doing that to try to get her to attention or something and that it accidentally went all the way. And he actually did it. So in my mind, he didn't at the time. It wasn't intentional. But it was. Yeah. Take your sip.

Was that the first big, like, death in your life at that? point? Yeah. That was the first. That's a pretty ugly one. Yeah, it was really hard. It was hard. But my memories of him are just so, you know, happy. I see it on your face when you were talking about him coming over. It's also nice that he was close by and you got that time with him too and not an uncle that lived out of state that you'd see like once a year. Oh, he loved us kids. He loved us kids. He liked spending time with us more than adults. He was like a big kid kind of. Does your family ever see that lady or their family around at all? No.

Never. No. Even in a small place like that, you don't cross pads at all? No. You don't run into her at the Blue Light Special at the K-Mart? No. It's a PGA. This bitch got the last one.

So, yeah. So, yeah, that was hard. That was hard on my mom, too. Yeah. Yeah. I'll bet. Was that her only brother? No, she had other brothers.

She did. Yeah. Yeah, she had two other brothers, but he was, he was special. Yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah. I mean, it was a long time ago now, but still, I can see how you remember him. Yeah, I mean, and it was just, just her choosing money over him really made an impact on me, too, because money changes people. You know, when they get a lot of money, they just tend to change. And I've seen it so much.

I almost feel like when we were, I'm not going to say poor, but when we were struggling, I feel like we were happier than a lot of my rich, my rich schoolmates families who were always arguing and stuff. And I don't know. I think that money can, like a lot of money, can change. can change people. Oh, for sure. And especially with what happened to my uncle, with her choosing the money over him,

it was devastating for him to think that somebody would choose money over love. Yeah. Did they show up at the funeral or anything like that? Do you remember? I don't remember. I doubt it. Yeah. Yeah, I doubt it.

So then let me ask you, if you don't mind, then you start getting a little money come your way. Yeah. How do you deal with it? Because when I was talking to you before we recorded, you said you ended up being a stay-at-home mom. Yeah. You dropped your career. I did.

I put it to the side. So tell me about just getting a little bit of money first and how like you stay, you know, mentally strong with it. You don't go crazy. Because you know. It wasn't. It didn't take effort on my part because I, of the way that I was raised and the way I grew up in the South, it didn't affect me and still doesn't. And do you think because of what happened to your uncle Randy, like that's a big part

of it for you? Probably. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, probably. So you were comfortable walking or, well, let me watch my words, Ryan Sickler. Were you comfortable walking away from your career to be a stay-at-home mom? Yes.

You were. Yeah, because I didn't want to make the mistake that, I shouldn't say it that way. A lot of people choose to have nannies and live in nannies and stuff. And that works for them and that's fine. But for me, it's not something that I would have considered because I felt like the parent needs to be the one raising the kid, not someone that's hired. And that's just my way. I'm not like. But there's also a lot of people out there who the choice of the nanny is just because they can't afford it.

Not because they think a parent or someone should do. that it's because it's a financial thing so for you even though you did have the finances you still were like no yeah no i'm gonna raise these kids yeah and at one time when you're a stay-at-home mom how many five or at least are you how many five yeah that's two more than your mom yeah are you are your parents still with us mom and my mom's not i'm sorry yeah my dad is my dad's 84 how long go to mom pass um it's been yeah let me just ask you this then i'm sorry um was she would were she around were you able to have her as a resource for a little while when you were a mom oh yeah okay good yeah she was great and you would call her and talk to her all the time yeah how the hell did you do

this yeah yeah when's that hit you what age does it hit you when you're like mom how the fuck did you all the time i mean i was always asking her um how to cook she was a great cook and stuff and um she uh she would give me advice on the kids and stuff too and um she would laugh sometimes when i would when they would be doing something you know that was getting on my nerves and she'd be like well it seems like this is a little payback because you did the same thing you know so do you want to be a grandma i would love to be a grandma yeah yeah i would love to i always thought i wouldn't want my daughter to have kids early but now i'm 50s And I'm like, I don't want to be a grandma.

I'll help you take care. Yeah. You know what I'm like? I'll help you out. There's nothing like the smell of a baby, you know, and the laugh of a young child. How old is your youngest now in your life? 24. Everyone's adults.

24 is the youngest. Okay. Yeah. Do you miss it? Did you like being a stay-at-home mom? Tell me about it. I mean, I went to all of the PT, parent-teacher. conferences and all of the school plays and I took them to the dentist and to the doctor and

the orthodontist and I'm the one that helped with homework every night and um and you liked it I loved it I loved you like being a mom you're a caretaker yeah I loved it and you had no well tell me about the shift like how do you go from it was hard everything yeah it was hard you know the auditions to this to that to just now I need to set my I have a schedule And you've got five kids. That's five different schedules, as I'm well aware of. Right. Right. This one's got to be at the school this time.

This one gets picked up here. This one's doing this. Yeah. Well, I hired. I got what they call a mommy's helper. Okay. What's that? Which is, it's not a living nanny, and it's not really a nanny, but it's somebody who

would come during the day to help with some of the picking up and dropping off. Okay. Because there were a bunch of different schools and stuff. So that and like, you know, so that I could help them with homework, they might do. something else i don't know help clean up or something um so i had a little bit of help like that what were your favorite things about being a stay-at-home mom excuse me um i loved doing the homework with them and you know getting them prepared for yeah i'm not i already told my daughter you got to go to your mom for math i'm a fucking math i love math yeah so i would like getting them

prepared for for tests you know quizzing them and stuff on the material and um all of that stuff and And then I loved all the little things, like taking them to the dentist and taking him with the doctor and going to their little school performances and stuff. I loved that stuff and helping them with science projects. Yeah. I loved that. I just loved it. Yeah.

And you go to the, like, talent shows and all that stuff. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. You know, packing their lunches. Kids play sports? A little bit like karate and stuff, but not much. Not much else. Yeah.

musicians in the family not really no no my son is now he's a he's a film composer oh he's doing really well that's bad he's he's big time he does a lot of big films and stuff so now what happens then talk to me about the shift of now once everyone's out of the house now you got a whole other fucking chapter well donna and how you shift into yeah now it's I'm you know I'm single by choice I don't date um you don't date at all No. You're not on the celebrity apps. I am on Raya, but it's more of just like, let's see who's out there, you know.

And not because I would, I never click on anybody. I just look because it's entertainment for me for a few minutes. But no, I don't date. I don't date at all. And I have very few friends really in this town because this town is, it's hard to make friends in this town that are genuine friends. So I have a few that I know. know, are real friends.

But I keep to myself a lot, you know, there's, there's a lot of trust issues with me because there have been people who would be around me and stuff and act like my friend that really weren't, weren't my friend, and I would find out later. So I keep to myself a lot, you know, and me and my dog, my rescue dog, and I, you know, plant vegetables and stuff. And I write. You do right? Yeah, I just wrote a film script and we're getting that made.

And I'm going to direct. You are? Hell, yeah, all right. Are you allowed to say what it is? No, not yet. But soon, soon, when I can, I'll come back. Come back on the way back and promote it. Okay, I will.

I mean, that Donna said you would. She said you're coming, girl. And I worked on this AI thing. So, I mean, I work on stuff on my own. And people ask me, you know, aren't you lonely? I don't know that I would term it as saying I'm lonely. I'm alone, but I don't feel lonely. You're right.

There's a big difference in being alone and lonely. You could be surrounded by 100 people and still feel lonely. That's right. That's right. And sometimes I do feel a little lonely. Sometimes I'm not going to lie. But for the most part, I'm just alone and I enjoy my own company. And I'm just kind of used to it, I think.

so do you have any um childhood friends close with any girls or guys from from back when they were they were teasing there one or two in there that were like homies that had your back not really no no so you're pretty much a loner then even i was a loner yeah when when i was growing up um the my friends were the animals that lived um like the reptiles and amphibians and stuff that lived in the woods right across the street from where I grew up, there was a lake there, and I would go down there after school every day, and I'd, you know, I would hang out with turtles and snakes and frogs and, you know, things like that, and they were my friends. I'd talk to them about what happened in school that day, and, you know, sounds a little awkward and weird, but that was,

I enjoyed it. Oh, they're not bullying you. Yeah, they never made fun of me. Yeah, they didn't care about that bra. No, they didn't care about that bra. Man, you know, I wish I had that bra today. I really do. I wish I had that bra. Honestly, now that my mom's gone, I wish to God I had that. Isn't that funny? Like, now that your mom's gone, something that you hated, something that would fucking wreck your self-esteem. You're like, now you wish. I wish you had it. What did you do with it? Do you know? Oh, I'm sure it just got taught. I don't know. You didn't have a ceremony for that. I don't know.

I wish I had a lot of this stuff she made for me. But I wish I had that bra because I know she felt bad that that's all she could afford. And she really worked on it all night on her son wishing to try to take it in and make it smaller and stuff. And I would give anything to have that. How would you say you're similar to your mom? As a mom, as a mom, not just as a person. How are you like your mom? I think extremely hands-on and protective, maybe over-protective a little bit.

Fiercely, you know, I fiercely defend my kids. And I don't have a temper except when it comes to them, somebody mistreating them. I... You hit a new gear? Oh, my gosh, yeah. I'm unrecognizable. I mean, and it's quick. like that's instant. I step in and I'm on fire. So in that way, I think I'm like her because she was

like that too. She was very soft-spoken and very sweet and just gentle and soft. But she would, she would fly into action if somebody messed with her kids. But also sounds like a really strong lady too. She was. You know, not just protective, but she's raising three kids. Her husband's off in the military. She was growing vegetables back there and this was back in. You don't have to say it a year. I was going to say it's going to date me. People do the bat.

Yeah. But either way, this is a lady by herself. There's no fucking internet and shit, you know what I mean? She's just figuring it out herself with these three kids. Yeah, and she had this big vegetable garden in the backyard. She'd bring us out there and teach us about vegetables and have us help her harvest them and stuff. And we ate. That was a lot of our food we ate was what she grew up.

Oh, yeah? That's cool. What are you growing in your garden? Squash, green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, scallions, onions, and something I'm forgetting. Damn. Another one, yeah. Can I ask you this? And you don't have to answer if you don't want to.

Your parents were together their entire lives? They were together for 30, I don't know, like 35 years or so. And then they split. They did. What made them split after 35 years? Because you guys are all gone at that point. Yeah. Way long, right?

Yeah, I don't know. You don't have to answer. Just reasons. Yeah, okay. So then your mom, because I was going to ask, I incorrectly assumed that they were together the entire time. So your mom did go through a separation. Yeah, she did. So I didn't think she did.

So I was going to ask you if you leaned on her through any of your times. I did. Now you actually, she went through. Who can I ask you this? Who got separated first? Mom or you? Oh, she did. She did.

Yeah. And was she a good, you know, resource for when you were going through your struggles? Oh, yeah. Always. Always. She was really, she's like, I am now where she just was very, you know, fiercely defensive on behalf of her kids. You know, she would defend them and always took our side on everything. And she was a good grandmom.

Yeah, great. Did she stay in Alabama? She did. She did. Would you go back to visit her? Yeah, a lot, yeah, yeah. And what about your dad? Is he a good grandfather?

He's amazing. Is he like being a grandpa? Oh, he loves it. He does. Yeah, he's a great dad. He's really great. He was in the Vietnam War. He served two tours of duty over there.

He was a war hero, Army. He's a war hero, your dad. War hero. Really? And he saved a lot of people's lives when he was over there. And he, you know, he used to want to talk to us about his time over there, but we weren't interested as kids. I don't care about Vietnam and what you ate there and stuff. Or where you were, he'd take out this map and he'd try to show us where we'd be like, can I go outside and play?

Now I'm really interested. And so every time I'm with him. Oh, he's like. I don't mean to sound ignorant, but he's still with it enough to show you these maps. Oh, 100%. He's like you and me. There's absolutely no slowing down. That's cool.

So now he's, oh, he's probably stoked his shit now. He's been waiting all this time. He has been. He's like, dust with his mats off and rolling him out. And he's got all his like medals and stuff on display.

Oh, that's nice to give him too. That's nice to give him in his latter years. Yeah. Yeah. So he's stoked. Like when you show up as he already have shit waiting, like, let me show you this one. Kind of.

Yeah, kind of. Like he had all of his medals and his purple heart and all those things like in a drawer somewhere and I'm like no dad no we're displaying these I know that I looked up this place there's this amazing place that makes these amazing shadow boxes for military with all of their medals and stuff and their dog tags and it's expensive and it takes a long time but they they did it and they did this beautiful job and I had it put in his house I said that's nice dad this is something to show off don't put them in a drawer this is you know you did a lot to

earn those medals. So he's proud of it. So it's over there now. That's nice. And he talks about it. Do you think or do you know if your dad has any mementos from your mom that when he passes, you'll get? Is there anything?

You know what I mean? He really misses my mom. Yeah. He cries about her every day. He does? Every day. Yeah, every day. He was in love.

That's sweet. Yeah. Yeah, every day. Do you talk to him every day? Yeah. You guys talk? I hope my daughter will talk to me every day. Yeah, she will.

she will um but yeah yeah we we talk every day and whenever her name comes up he has to get off the phone because he starts to cry um but we're all kind of like that um when we talk about her um can i ask you you go from being bullied about your boobs and your stammer and everything into you know fucking donna d'airica gorgeous model all of it bay watch um do mom and dad support this? Are they worried about this? Support what? Your career choice.

Like you're going into entertainment. So proud. Okay. Yeah. I don't just mean the modeling and stuff. I just mean entertainment. Oh, for sure. There's no guarantee of anything.

No, they're very proud. They're not saying go to school, do this, go to college. They're supportive all the way. Yeah, all the way. I mean, when I, when I first got discovered for Playboy, I was in an Albertson's grocery store. where in Las Vegas and you're not you're just that's how you got this you're just into Albertsons I'm in Albertsons shopping late at night because I liked to be in there when no other shoppers were

there because I don't mix well with other people so so I'm shopping this is when they're like stalking you know late at night and and so I'm in there and there's no one else in there other than the stock guys that are stocking the shelves and there's this woman in there and she's following me around Albertsons. And I can tell she's following. She's not shopping. She's, her cart's empty. And so I'm like, okay, either she's a secret shopper and she thinks I'm shoplifting.

Because I had that look like I don't have much money. And or she is lesbian and she's checking me out. There cannot be anything else. So I'm like, I'm shopping, I'm shopping. She keeps like going down the same aisles as me. And eventually now she starts coming towards me. And I'm like, okay, here we go. She's going to accuse me of shoplifting or she's going to ask me out or something.

I don't know. So she comes up to me and she goes, excuse me, I was, I've been watching you. And I'm like, here we go, you know. And she said, have you ever thought of posing for Playboy magazine? And I was like. Yeah, are you just like floor? What? I said, no, I don't look good enough for Playboy. And she's like, no, you, you do.

I'm like, I don't think so. Those girls are flawless and beautiful. And now, are you serious? And she gave me her card. She was a playboy, playmate talent scout. Who knew those existed? And she said, listen. Her whole job was to walk around.

Yeah, I guess. Or maybe it was a side gig. I don't know. And she said, think about it, because I really think that you, you know, you could, could get in as a centerfold. I'm like, okay, give me your card. Come on. So I'm like, I called her, I don't know, a few days later. And I'm like, listen, were you just yanking my chain?

Because I know I don't look beautiful like that, like those girls. And she said, well, yeah, no, I was, I am serious. And, you know, all you would need to do is come in, take, let me do some test shots, send them to Chicago, and, you know, we'd see if they'd pick you. And I'm like, well, I'm sure that thousands and thousands of people send in their photos to become a centerfold. And they only pick one for each month. And she said, yes, that's correct. But I feel like, you know, it's worth a shot. And I'm like, well, what's the deal?

And she said, well, you get $20,000. And I was like, just for the shot? That's a lot of money to me at the time. No guarantee that you're going to be in the magazine or anything. No, no, no. If you get centerfold. So I was like, oh my gosh. Well, that's a fortune for me. I mean, I could really use that kind of money. Had you modeled before at all? No, no. Your first foray into all of this is Albertsons and a lady going, hey, you could be a, are you fucking kidding me? You never modeled or anything. No, I'm short. I'm a little short person. Yeah, you're tiny, but still. Yeah, I'm short. I'm in big.

heels and I'm still short. So, so, and plus I never had those looks. I don't, I don't have model looks. So, um, so I said, okay, well, if I get chosen, I get $20,000 and I just do like the centerfold shot. And she's like, yes, but you also do the Playmate video. And I'm like, oh, never mind. I'm out. I don't do porn. I, I, I, you know, and, um, and she's like, no, no, no, no, it's not a porn video. I'm like, if it's Playboy and you're, I'm in a video, I'm not stupid here. It's a, you're talking about porn. She's like, no, it's not porn. Come over. I'll show you a few Playmate videos. It's just them running through flowers and taking their clothes off or something. I used to see him in the back of Sam Goody and shit like that. You remember Sam Goody? The record

store stuff, they would have VHSs in the back and it would be the Playmate girls will be back there. So I went, I looked at one. I said, oh. What it's going like a bunch of water on you in a bathing suit sometimes? It's just you. There's no, you know. know, interaction with somebody. So I said, okay, I could do that. So wait, I don't mean interrupt. Can I ask you this? Because I'm curious about your parents, too.

Yeah. In your mind, print isn't porn, but video would be. I guess I was just thinking that a nude video meant that they were insinuating I needed to make a porn. Oh, that there was going to be a man involved. I see. I never really equated Playboy with being porn. Porn to me involved, you know, intercourse and stuff in my mind. I know that maybe that's not technically what the definition of it is.

But that's what I meant was doing porn. So I went, I did the test shots. She sent them in. And they came back and they said, we need to see a copy of her birth certificate because we don't think that she's old enough to do the magazine. How old you have to be? She doesn't look old enough, 18. Only 18.

You didn't look 18? No. And you're how old at the time? I was 20. I don't know, 27, 20. Oh, man. Yeah, something like that. Yeah, something like that.

So I got the copy. I had to call my mom and make up a reason of why I needed my birth certificate. And she sent it to me, not yet. Okay, okay, okay. So then they sent that in. And I got chosen. I got chosen. I'm like, are you kidding me?

How long between Albertsons and chosen? Couple months? Couple months. That's fucking. I know. And I'm like, all I was, I've got that money spent in my head already, $20,000. I'm like, that at that point in my life was a damn fortune. Yeah. $20,000, a lot of money. I don't care what time a year it is. $20,000 right now is a lot of money. That's a lot of money. That's like life changing money for me at that time. So you have to do the video as well. Yeah. And are there other obligations? You have to do appearances or anything like that. Yeah. But the first thing I had to do was tell my parents. And that was hard. Who do you tell first? I told my mom first.

Okay, all right. And she was really excited for me. And I was crying when I told her because I was really thinking that they were going to be disappointed in me and like never talk to me again or something. So she was like, she was really excited. And I said, I don't know how to tell dad. I don't know what he's going to say. And she said, I think you'll probably be okay with it. And I'm like, will you just tell him?

Who are me? Can you do it? it. So she told him, I guess, and then he called me. And he said that he thought it was great. He did. He did. He said, yeah, I fully support. If this is something you want to do, then I think it's great. And I was like, oh my gosh, thank God that they are okay with it. Because if they weren't, I probably wouldn't have done it. You really don't think you would have. No. What do you do? What does Donna Deerico do if dad, mom say we don't approve? I would have just said, I'm sorry. I can't do it. What's your career? What does life look like? What do you think you do? Accounting.

I was good at math. Yeah. I would have been an accountant. Yeah. You learned that from your mom too. My dad said she would do payroll. No, no, what did you say your mom did? No, no, legal. She was a paralegal. That's right. I'm sorry. My dad was, is a math genius. Oh, he is? Yeah. So, so yeah. So then I, you know, I went and I stayed at the at the mansion. How much time do we have left? I have a story to tell you. Let's hear it. When I stayed at the mansion to shoot my video and my stuff. So real quick, that's what they do. They fly you out and then you don't get to stay at a hotel. You have to stay at the mansion. You stay at the mansion in the guest house.

And there were three other. Which one's the guest house? I've been to the mansion twice. I've been to the mansion twice. Is that the one with the, is it out front with the plush, plush floor and all the games and stuff in it? And then there's a- There were no games in there.

No, this was like a small guest house. It had a living room, a bath, room and two bedrooms. And then when I was there, there were three other playmates shooting their stuff at the same time there. And two of us were in one bedroom and two were in the other bedroom. Oh, you had to share a room. Yeah. Yeah. That seems kind of tight. A little weird. A little financially tight for a mansion. I know. But it was also kind of nice because you had, you know, new people you were meeting now. They were going through the same thing and they're nervous too. So then, you know, they didn't

shoot each of us at the same down the same day and stuff all the time because we were we had our own shoots with our own sets and stuff but there happened to be a time when all three of them were off shooting and I was alone there and I was bored you know this was before cell phones and before computers and before the internet what year is this this was 95 okay and um And so I went out in the living room, and it was kind of, it was like being in your grandpa's house. It was a little musty, you know, a little old feeling dated. And there was this big sideboard there with these giant drawers on the bottom. And so, you know, I'm nosy when I go to people's houses.

I'll see what's in their medicine cabinet and stuff. I think we all do that. I'm a little snoopy. We all don't know. I'm a little snoopy. A little bit snoopy. So I pulled open a drawer, and I'm a little bit snoopy. I'm like, it's a bunch of life magazines in plastic sleeves, like tons.

This was a very deep, big drawer. And I'm like, okay, that's boring. I opened the next one, more life magazines. I open the next one. And I'm noticing they're all like in chronological order, meticulously OCD, perfect mint condition. Yeah. So I'm like, I'm thinking, you know, I bet one of those life magazines is worth something. And I needed money.

So I said, how would they miss one of these hundreds of life magazines? So I opened a drawer, I slid one out from underneath, and I put it in my suitcase. I closed the drawer. And that my intention was to sell it. And fast forward, I get Baywatch nights, I get Baywatch, I'm doing films now and stuff. How quickly are you doing that after the? the centerfold drops? One, let's see, it was like three months later I got Baywatch nights.

Yeah, I was rolling. I was on fire. So then I'm at, after I'm now a name and I'm now a TV star or whatever, I went back to the mansion for one of the parties. And Huff would always get out on the dance floor and he'd kind of dance with us, you know, whoever was standing there and he was like dancing with me and stuff and then the song was coming to an end it was a fast dance you know and and I said have I need to tell you something and and he said okay yeah what's up Donna and and I told him what I did I said I stole from you I stole that magazine from you when I was staying in your guest house and I said and I was crying

I was like I still feel bad to this I'm gonna cry now I said all you've done for me And I stole from you. And I'm so sorry. I said, I never sold it. I still have it. And I want to return it to you. And he said, Donna, I saw you take that. I said, what?

He said, there were cameras in there. He said, I saw you take it. I figured you needed the money. Keep it. I'm like, oh my gosh, you have no idea how tormented I've been by the fact that I stole from you all those years ago. That's great. And he said, no, I knew you took it this whole time.

Did you ever get it valued? Do you know what it were? No. Do you still have it? Yes, I still have it. You do? what at what um you didn't look to see what it's like number 14 it's been in storage for a while i don't know smart i think number one off yeah or the last one last one probably valuable too so yeah

so that's my story of stealing from half this has been great thank you so much for coming on here and doing this i've really enjoyed having you on um before we wrap up two things i'm going to ask you advice you'd give to 16 year old donna diarico what would you tell her um oh my gosh um I would say to hold your head up high and be proud of who you are. And you have nothing to be self-conscious about it because you're great. That's awesome. I love your attitude because you could easily be like, you just wait. You'll show those bidses, you know, but you're not.

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