Eartha Kitt's daughter Kitt Shapiro

calmly and didn't say anything the rest of the day, I of course was pouting and crying and you know throwing a tantrum and two days later she was at a press conference and the photographer asked her to take a photo of him overlooking the amusement park and she He said oh, you know, it's so funny, the other day they kicked me out of that park. headlines headlines and the owner of the park was very apologetic and then said what can I do to make it up to you? you know all you want and she said well you know we're building these schools so you know for African Children your donation would be very welcome so she wrote a check and gave us, you know, tickets to go to the amusement park. , and my mother came back, she brought two white children, two black children and two colored children, and that's how she was not one of those who would stand in the stands and scream and scream and make a big scene, which is how I put it. would have done.

I think she was someone who made changes in very subtle ways, but was still very loud inside of her. it's subtle, you brought some good things, I think some writing, on hotel stationery and in books, obviously there are favorite sayings and you have started to develop a business which is now simply called Eartha and the right kit-isms made some of these kit- isms. she sings like "don't panic" and other things are her favorites, well my mother had coined those kid-isms during her life because and none of them didn't invent any of these, these aren't necessarily unique to her, but a time.

She told them that they were hers, that they didn't even try to tell her otherwise, that they were equidis and that the child was not a child and she wrote everything and when she died, which is now four and a half years ago. from colon cancer from colon cancer yes, an unnecessary cancer to die from um I found through her all her belongings pieces of paper you see that you have writing on everything from post-it notes to hotel stationery napkins and that you have and My mother told me before she died don't throw anything away don't throw it away everything I've made is for you it's going to be used in some way someday it can be used so don't throw it away so of course I was afraid to throw it away, What do you do with all these pieces of paper?

So, after she died, two years after her death, I decided to make a book, a little book for her, for close friends of ours, my mother's and whoever's. he touched our lives and then I took some of his kids and with his own lyrics even then me and I did it I just did it on my computer on my own it covers santa baby and the cover was this one of santa baby you're not getting the royalties , well, I'm getting her voice, yeah, I'm getting her vocal royalties, but no, yeah, she didn't own it, she didn't write it, so, but I'm getting something that's amazing, so I have, so she's we.

I put in all these kids some fabulous photos that I have and kidisms and people really responded to them, so on our Facebook page, which we have Facebook, the Eartha kit, I started posting a lot of these, which I had photos of a few minutes ago . and the fans really respond to them, so I'm thinking, well, wait a minute, I have their lyrics, which is their philosophy, their spirit, I also have some images that are unique that no one else has, but I'm going to maybe combine them and People seem to like it a lot, so I decided to do it with just Eartha Dot com.com.

We have your home decor pieces and pillows, blankets, mugs and made in the USA. You said my mother was very much made in the USA, if you give her something made in China or abroad , she would give it back to you, so it was very green before it was chic and modern to be green, we had a garden and chickens in our house in beverly hills she really believed that if it did not come from the earth it could not be eaten and if it was processed it could not be it was good it was not good to eat that's how she lived she said it It has to be whatever she buys, preferably it would be made in the US, it's not that easy to find all the time, but she knew that if she was going to design and manufacture items if you didn't have everything made in the United States.

He says somehow she was going to come, I was going to hear from her, something was coming up, so what are you doing with your company? Simply put, earth, what is there to give back to this, yes, give back pieces to the colon cancer alliance because colon cancer is the second cause of cancer death in the United States, which most people don't realize. Mind you, I think they assume it's breast cancer and maybe other types, lung cancer is number one and colon cancer is number two and it's easier to get a colonoscopy. to find and treat and you know, when you have a colonoscopy, if they find a polyp, literally during the procedure they remove it and that's it, and it doesn't turn into anything more than that, so it's really unfortunate, you know, my mother He was always healthy, so he didn't go to the doctor because he didn't have to, so he was larger than life, he thought well, yes, he was, so you have the company that you are going to expand and take out his kitisms. and some other things, what do you miss most about your mom and who she was?

Well, I miss the centrality of it. she was in the room where there was, you know, some kind of solid anchor, um, also strange, I was the absolute be-all and end-all of her, I mean, there just isn't because dad wasn't around, right? My parents divorced very, very young. when I was very, very young and um, it was just me and my mother and you know, this photo is beautiful, it's just, oh, and with us in the window, um, how strange? I miss her laughing at all my jokes, my kids don't. They laugh at any of my jokes They think they don't think it's funny at all My mom thought I was hysterical She thought it was the greatest thing ever invented And she told you something about Hollywood Was it good? for her, if she had had it when she retired because she sang for a long time and toured, she worked until she died on Christmas Day 2008.

Her last concert was with the Virginia Symphony in September 2008. So it was just two months. before her death and her 90 minute concert that she gave with the symphony orchestra um, she really felt that her fans were the ones that had kept her alive, she loved her fans for her, it wasn't about owning, you know, great Important pieces of art or jewelry or anything fancy for her were the pieces that her fans had given her that had been made for her or sent to her. She kept everything and then she could tell you who gave it to her, where she was, you know with the story behind it.

In a way, they were her family, yes, they were her family, they were her, they were the ones who stood by her and supported her in the times when you know she wasn't sure where her next meal was coming from, Kit Shapiro , thank you so much. for coming and imparting to some of them the kitismos and all the wonderful things that you are doing for colon cancer through your mom, thank you, thank you again, I appreciate it.