so now you re up to date. i m don lemon at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. thank you so much for watching. i ll tell you back here tomorrow night at 6:00, 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern. make sure you have have a good saturday night. see you later. captions by vitac www.vitac.com transformation like no other. chastity bono, a little girl who grew up on tv, now a man called chaz. i don t have memories till later in life. till at least like 4 or 5, 6. i don t remember anything from my early childhood. tonight he s here to tell us extraordinary story. probably because i didn t like the way i looked. i don t know. maybe i ll start to like it the more i see myself looking different. when did chaz know he was meant to be a man? how did he break the news to his partner jennifer? and his mother cher? chaz bono, his first live
lesbian. if i m not, what am i? at that point i started to go back over my life in my head and put these different things together. we re going to have a short break. when we come back, we ll get to the moment when you decide, i want to be a man. okay. i m also going to hear from nick cannon about a scam targeting his wife mariah carey and their babies. saying my wife was drinking beer and all that stuff. people will do anything to try to conjure up a story. okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle
primetime interview. this is piers morgan tonight. chaz bono tells huz story in the new book transition: the story of how i became a man and becoming chaz on oprah winfrey s network. i watched you on david letterman last night. one of the most amusing encounters i ve seen on a talk show in years. he was so uncomfortable. he didn t know quite how to handle you. quite how to deal with what you were telling him, the enormity of what you d gone through. what was it like for you last night? you had a really good time. i like dave a lot. i ve always been a fan. he s got this history with my family. so i really wanted to go on the show. i thought he represented a lot of people who really don t know about this issue. so it gave me a great opportunity to break it down,
months, he said he was, but he wasn t planning on doing anything about it at the time. he was comfortable living masculine and as masculine as possible but he would indeed want to do it at some point. what was your honest reaction when he said that? i compartmentalized that and put it away. quite something to compartmentalize. your girlfriend says, i want to become a man. and i said, we re good for now. i went back in the kitchen and went about my day. i knew we would have to deal with this some day. the advantage of having you as a girlfriend, you re bisexual, correct? yes, that s correct. that s not conjecture, that s the fact. you would be the person who would potentially find him as attractive as a man as he was as a woman. the question to me is do you? i find him more attractive as a man.
everything is changing. there is so much clarity coming. i m sure there will be more things i will discover that i didn t realize until i went on hormones and started to feel comfortable. i ll give you a mirror. nice and flat, huh? looks beautiful. there you go. that was from the documentary becoming chaz. it s extraordinary. thank you. it s an extraordinary story and it centered around the pivotal moment when you decide, i actually want to be a man. mm-hmm. i m going to do something about this. tell me about that moment. well, it was a long time coming. i think i started to put it together in my early 30s. and then suddenly, i was like, what can i do about this? i m a public figure.