Parkinson - Billy Connolly & Pamela Stephenson (2001)

family wrote about it and it is a very moving and extraordinary story, really. Is it funny too? I mean, because you can't help but be funny, but it was kind of like I just hate, I don't want to show up, put the poor guy, the guy who came from a poor place and and and.he's famous and successful and you know that's an American dream Because when you live in a poor neighborhood it doesn't seem like a poor neighborhood, is it a nice place to be? You know, people are very, very charming, no. you don't find anyone, everyone says they never broke into the houses, no one had microphones and all that, nothing, they were still going to steal clothespins or something, the wireless connection, you know, so, the place is okay and when , when these things are happening.

For you, you're not sure if it's not happening to everyone else too, so you take it into account and when they keep telling you that you're stupid, you think, well, I must be stupid and that saves you, yes, you. You know what you're not saying right, maybe I have something wrong with my brain because no one is going to help you with that, you know, because you're working class, they're not going to change you so that your brain looks like a mosaic. or whatever so you just accept and then you accept and he does a great job in the US and I managed to get through my plus life and go to school in a jacket and everything you know and then I was like a fool and then happened.

We're doing the Swanee again, but isn't it like that again? I thought: I wonder what's in the shipyards anyway. I don't want your Latin shit, so the offer was to be a welder and that was great, no one asked me much there. so it's not like being a loser all your life. He would hit people who thought he had a big smile while massaging and seeing what interested him. Pamela Pamela says in the book she uses three words she looks at you she thinks she feels MV It's an interesting awe and disbelief and I think all reasonable people would feel exactly the same.

I mean, it's an extraordinary story and she also points out that basically your psychotherapy is going on stage and talking about doors and that's what you did, yeah, plus having people like you, by the way, who showed a really incredible friendship , you laugh about it now, but it was incredibly important and the law when I had rock and roll friends, you know, it would be Mick Jagger as my friend and Paul McCartney's people were in The World, you know, it must be Sammy. Okay, do you think Keith Richard knows me too? Hello in the book. He is very sad.

This knows something about you. You want to be in Eric Clapton's refrigerator. Yes, because Bobby Ball was out and consumed with envy. I went to Eric's house for a party and I saw this picture of Bobby Ball oh well it was Canada but it was Bobby maybe both but I've read Bobby's yeah Eric tralala how is the verb Bobby a often sadder? Eric was sad and then there was another one from Bob Marley and he was saying I shot the sheriff and all that and I thought, God, I wish that was imaginable being at his engagement door.

I mean, I love Eric Clapton, you know, and I love a lot of people. and a lot of people you know, I love Errol Scruggs, the banjo player, and most of the people I love are dead, that's not that we're obsessed with talking about death, do this again, it's interesting, father, but Were you talking about the only time you really thought you could emulate? Salvador Dalí who really wanted to eat his lover she should eat him we died first and Pamela went to eat each other yes dad but I still intend to do it you do that yes but I told you the other day just a little I don't want to eat you the edges of your whole body, I just think it would be good to eat some if your wife died so we could eat some.

I would fire him, you know, you know, you know what the movie is like. followed The Silence of the Lambs when they ate brains and they just like to take some and eat it well. I thought, oh, I'll just fry a slice, you know, I mean, I'm kind of chosen, it was about the tombstone, so we're out of you, yeah, tell us, I want a and Pamela has promised to do it, I want the tombstone to say that Jesus Christ is already upside down, another if I want them to install the sound system next. to my tombstone behind the flowers and everything and it can be activated, but you are standing on the glass because the other ideas to come are small letters on the stone saws, they have to get closer and I will activate the thing and you.

You will read, you are standing on the ball, it comes out again. I mean, is it like that at home? No, I do it, I execute it. I write all the time, right, yeah, oh, I love a good rhyme, some urban flax, some urban. Lena tackles a goal for You should see those. Someone said you can't tell jokes about war. My God, there is nothing better. Can? I was on tour and the Americans were dropping bombs and Ferd. I mean, what's wrong with a stretcher? Can you imagine being Afghan? who they kill, but me, a big box of food, the next step is obviously edible bombs, just throw a big giant licorice, everyone, son, can see.

I mean, it's been interesting to read the book because I've followed your career for some of the time that certainly the city of Pamela has been with you I guess we should all thank you for the main thing that you did and that is that you smile from the alcohol and they I'm there on the drugs to fool me in many ways they saved their life I really don't think you can save someone's life I think they have to be prepared for that to happen I think they have to decide to do it themselves um but you, but you promoted the idea I definitely promoted the idea I definitely said there's no chance for us unless that stops because I'm not going to be around you.

I asked you a couple of times. I'm on the wrong toes of being the wrong person. You should put them in me. The tape with the Scotty fist. If those who ask the question didn't do it, it's your round I know this vector but we see a little I guess in many ways it's typical of your friends at that time because we saw Pamela being the woman who is taking away from us, in a sense, yes, There's nothing closer, right? and then a male drinking school, yeah, there's nothing better, nothing better, we're good, no, it's a lot of fun, I mean, we enjoyed each other's company and then this person came in and he. started to change we all thought that she knew him, you know, yes, and you will be aware of that, of course, yes, very, very understandable that one should worry about it or even suspect, that's true, yes, but it was a good thing that You did, I think so.

Oh, it was, because you get to a point where you think you might die and you start to expect it, you know it's like sure, better, yeah, you think God's going to get me and you think I'm going to be. one of them I'm going to be one of the dead, anything, yeah, okay, I'll settle for RS, yeah, that's exactly it, it seems pretty good. The pathology growing around your response will continue as it doesn't seem so bad and finally I. I mean having written the book yourself, well, you said I think you'll get married more, right?

Having taken a trip with him and it was an extraordinary process to write it and it was cathartic for both of us. And I found it very painful, I think Billy did, you know, just seeing it like that and when someone very close to you has gone through it and you're really forced to take a look at the details, it's kind of painful. I mean it was written, you know Billy will always make light of it and always show what a survivor he is, but he was bad and he survived brilliantly and he was able to take care of the enormous talent of him. one of the most important aspects of this and although it was difficult, it was difficult to talk to family members about this, but it was very healing because the family was very divided, a lot of people didn't know that she, my brother Michael I.

I feel more sorry for her yet I didn't tell him I couldn't tell him I was sitting on the couch with him and I just couldn't do it and I just couldn't understand it I had to leave his house and Pam told him I don't know why because I'm normally a lot braver than that, but he couldn't pronounce the words. She gave me permission to tell him, but Michael was much closer to my father than I was. They tell me he lived there for years after me, yes, it's very nice to hear Michael and others say to Billy, that must have been so horrible for you, it must have been terrifying because I thought they would take it so badly, yes, but maybe I was lying or maybe I was looking for publicity but I thought I'm not looking for an audience I don't need publicity in any way I don't look for it and I don't believe in people who do it myself Dibby Dibby you feel bad If you say it openly now yes, it I do, I feel good.

I went to a psychiatrist in Los Angeles, at Pamela's house, because after my father died I was a little worried, you know? I've never done anything about it and he treated me and he was brilliant, it was absolutely impressive and I was over it, but no, that's it, that's great because I'm not going to get anyone to hide from me, the problem is that in families where there has been abuse all these secrets are kept within themselves and the secrets spread the abuse and imagine reaching adulthood and not knowing something very important about an important family member and therefore the fact that The secrets were revealed.

Through the writing of the book, I think it was a very positive thing and people were able to talk to each other and you know, Florence Billy's sister was always her biggest guardian angel and I think it's probably been a big relief for her to have that. . and not having to keep the secret either. I think it's very good, it's an extraordinary read about an extraordinary story and thank you both for talking about it. Come Stevenson Billy Connolly.