still touring? not yet. it niece the works. larry: are you worried about touring again? no. my family is number one priority. i have to put my family first. if i could say, larry, the other thing i discovered is my passion is my family, too. and focusing on being really present form them and for melissa, it is where i need to be. because of the we re talking to each other and communicating, it s a whole different level. larry: what challenge was the toughest for you? the toughest challenge for me was you ll see it on tuesday night, was the family challenge, because i had discovered i never attached my kids behavior to my lack of being a really great dad. i love my kids, emotionally connected to them all the time.
most to them was their children. it changed everything. i told her she couldn t write music for money. she had to take care of kids first for the next 18 months. i said you can write music and you have to write a song in two days and perform it in front of a couple thousand people. you have to write it. together. that was a process. larry: as we go to break, you ll hear melissa lawson sing that song. that song is united we stand. we ll be right back. no matter the cause of what we feel we ve lost do anything we can because united we stand stopping. it s not that hard. and only allstate pays you an extra bonus to do it. get one of these every six months you go without an accident. [ judy ] what are you waiting for? call or click today for a free quote or to find an allstate agent. call or click today for a free quote [ man ] to the seekers of things which are one of a kind. the authentic, the rare, the hard to define.
i did. we did a lot of challenges. after they had done the process of decoupling from the internet, being with the kids back in an 1830s style ranch where they had to do everything on their own. i told her she couldn t write music for money. she had to take care of kids first for the next 18 months. i said you can write music and you have to write a song in two days and perform it in front of a couple thousand people. you have to write it. larry: as we go to break, you ll hear melissa lawson sing that song. that song is united we stand. we ll be right back. no matter the cause of what we feel we ve lost, do anything we can because united we stand
other thing i discovered is my passion is my family, too. and focusing on being really present for them and for melissa, it is where i need to be. because of we re talking to each other and communicating, it s a whole different level. larry: what challenge was the toughest for you? the toughest challenge for me was you ll see it on tuesday night, was the family challenge, because i had discovered i never attached my kids behavior to my lack of being a really great dad. i love my kids, emotionally connected to them all the time. but i wasn t being i wasn t handling the discipline side. i wasn t being a leader in my family. i wasn t taking care of my family like i should, as a man should. and tony really helped me to see that. the experience that we went through, it was tough because i
we re back. melissa lawson is the winner of nashville star, the tv singing contest. he learned her husband rick was having an affair while she was on tour. it might have something to do with the fact that he spent those three months running a business and taking care of a family. we welcome the lawsons to larry king live. they will be the subject of breakthrough with tony robbins next tuesday night, right? melissa, what happened? well, i went to audition for nashville star . larry: how many children do you have? i have five boys. they re all ours. larry: you went on nashville star. it was an amazing process. thought it was 20 years of effort coming true. the fans voted.