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HAVE YOU EVER TOLD SOMEONE TO
SHUT UP ABOUT SOMETHING?
[APPLAUSE] SHARON: YES.
IN FACT, GENE SIMMONS.
[APPLAUSE] SHERYL: WOW!
SHARON: AND THIS IS A LONG TIME AGO.
THIS DIDN'T JUST HAPPEN.
IT HAPPENED YEARS AGO.
BUT AFTER WE FINISHED OUR REALITY SHOW, GENE SIMMONS
STARTED A REALITY SHOW WITH HIS FAMILY.
AND THEY WERE IN ENGLAND AND HE WAS DOING PRESS AND THIS JOURNAL
-- JOURNAL -- JOURNALIST SAID TO HIM DON'T YOU THINK YOUR SHOW IS
LIKE "THE OSBOURNES"? AND HE SAID NO.
AND HE ASKED WHY? AND HE GOES MY KIDS AREN'T DRUG
ADDICTS.
FIRSTLY, YOU DON'T GO FOR SOMEONE'S KIDS.
BUT GENE HAS NO IDEA WHAT IT IS TO BE AN ADDICT AND WHAT IT
MEANS AND WHY PEOPLE BECOME ADDICTS AND THEY BECOME ADDICTED
TO ALCOHOL AND DRUGS. HE HAS NO IDEA.
HE'S BADLY EDUCATED IN THIS FIELD.
IN FACT, NOT EDUCATED AT ALL. AND HE HAS THIS OLD, OLD
MENTALITY OF A REALLY OLD GUY OF LIKE OH, YOU USELESS, YOU'RE AN
ADDICT. YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING.
HE IS LIKE SO OUT OF HIS LEAGUE TO EVEN DISCUSS THIS ABOUT
PRINCE. [APPLAUSE]
SHARON: AND IT'S LIKE, REALLY, REALLY, I DON'T KNOW HOW
"NEWSWEEK" EVEN SPOKE TO HIM BECAUSE THE MAN JUST ISN'T
RELEVANT.
[LAUGHTER] [APPLAUSE]
SHARON: DID I SAY SOMETHING WRONG?
JULIE: ANOTHER DISCUSSION.
SARA: AND PEOPLE KNOW HE'S GOING TO GIVE THEM A QUOTE THAT THEY
CAN RUN WITH. I FEEL LIKE EVEN IF -- EVEN IF
PRINCE DID IT TO HIMSELF, WHICH WE DO NOT KNOW, IT'S STILL NOT
CAUSE FOR SAYING SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
WHAT A TRAGIC THING THAT HE WAS SO TORTURED.