In this exclusive essay, Ricki Lake reflects on her most memorable moments on her talk show, and why she decided to leave.
I think I took the show for granted back then in a lot of ways. I never gave it the reverence that it deserved at the time. I was just in the grind. It was 200 shows a year and, for me, the way I hosted the show got to be very formulaic.
The trauma of witnessing and living through that day on September 11 changed the trajectory of my career and my life. My marriage ended, I left New York for California, and it changed everything for me.and stayed a couple more years but I really soul-searched about where else I felt I could make a difference. I was so profoundly impacted by my birth experiences—one in the hospital and one at home—that I wanted to explore that area. So I made the documentary, The Business of Being Born.
Andy Cohen is a good friend of mine—he created the Real Housewives franchise on Bravo. He says that those shows are somewhat derived from theshow. It's real people talking about real relationships. He absolutely gives some credit to shows like mine. I reached a turning point in how I viewed myself very recently. I think it was when I shaved my head, two-and-a-half years ago, out of desperation. My hair was in really bad shape, due to androgenetic alopecia. I was wearing an extensions piece on my head and then one day I just took it off and shaved my head. It wasn't on a whim; it was something that I needed to do to be free of the secret that I felt I was carrying.
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