The back street boys, rocked the house. At the contacted my of country muse ache ward, their performance, plus how the show took a jab at the academy award, the oscars, good day, it is monday, april 3rd, 2017. Well, we have got, hi, karen. Hi, i necessity. Good to see you. You smell fantastic by the way. We will try this. We will see what you think. A lot of shows like this, have couches. Yes. Im likinge a tv couch. This looks like, kind of oprah ish wouldnt you say. Nothing wrong with that. Wi. Do you like it. Yeah. Up in new york i have worked with couches many a year and you got to work with it. Because you have, as women you have to figure out how to, cross your legs. I was just thinking that. What is the proper way to set up, and then move over. On Fox News Channel at noon they have a show called, what sit called, unanswered, no, unwelcomed, no. Out numbered. Out numbered. Unwatchable. In the past i would have said something now, not now. Serenity now. So they have four women and a guy, apparently you have never seen this showy was the one who said the name of it. Yes. So they have had to learn how to cross their legs. You dont want to show anything, stuff like that, it is just uncomfortable. Now you are me more nerve us i have practiced and watching Wendy Williams and how she comes and sits down at the couch,o properly sit down and crossing without showing too much. Really. Lets see you do it. Okay. I will walk in and do it. Like she will satisfaction now it is time for hot topics. Ready. Let me get my mike own. Okay, hold on. It should be good. Okay. So first you start out and you walk in, hello, welcome to good day, hi. You take it and what she does shes sitting she smooths out her dress and then does the cross. I prefer to cross the other way. But that is not good. There we go. Now body language experts say that you have closed yourself off to me. Because im closed this way this said looks, leg wise better. See, i think this way is better. I did that too. I had it the other way and realized, im not facing mike. On you tube i have seen people slow it down, women crossing their legs on couches women crossing their sound. That is my basic inn stink. You dont to have do anything. No, guys dont have a problem, but you cannot put on wait because your jacket will fall opened and then. Lou good. I have put on weight while i was gone because the food was so good. All right. Lets get into this. I have told everybody, to say where i have been over the last six weeks. I went to way to what im calling a wellness retreat in North Carolina. Because i was going through some depression issues, probably stretching back 13 or 14 years. I had to do with my mom dying in 2004, mother on have my children died in 2009 i of 2009. I just had this going around in my head, bothering me. So i started to take some antidepressants, and they didnt work, made me jittery and it says right on the bottle dont drink alcohol with it. Well, i was not pounding some, a bottle of vodka all these event and party and all this other stuff. That combination was just not good. My daughters said why dont you go away, and get to the root of these issues you have in your head. So that is what i did. I went down to this place. It was very sunny, i was planting gardens and working with horses, all this, taking yoga classes. I have been hearing the yoga stuff. The light with you. The light in me sees the light in you. I like that. Thank you. But i was able to get out of there, we do have footage. It rained every now and then. It rained on the day of my departure when they dischargedoe some foot age. 500yard, that is the length of five football fields , just shy of half a mile. You had Morgan Freeman to narrate that. I want to thank Morgan Freeman for my escape video. So there was that. And we had many exercises and group therapy. What did you do with the horses. I told you. Oh look. What is this. A t utu. What is that about. Well, there were moments in there where i tried to get them to release me early. We have footage of that, yeah. Im ready to go in coach, just give me a chance. I necessity there is a lot riding on it but it is all psychological. It is just staying in the positive, im super slow mo. Okay, im joking around. You know i like to joke. Which dont this place in North Carolina called silver ridge. All these Treatment Centers have fancy names like this. October road. You know, mist, this is silver ridge. It was a wonderful facility. I wanted to get the heck out of there. We have a picture of what it looks like. It is a big mansion. Silver ridge mountains. In North Carolina. Yes, blue ridge mountains. So, i told you what i went down there for, just trying to get over some stuff. I noticed yesterday that the world health organization, said that depression is the number one cause of illness and disability worldwide, that report came out a couple days ago. In fact, apparently 300 Million People that are dealing with depression, right now. I feel like we have heard from almost 299 Million People that have been saying mike, thanks for coming forward, thanks for talking, everybody on the street, facebook, every where. You should be proud. Because of your openness you have allowed people to feel comfortable having the conversation and a lot of people messaged us and said they got help, inspired by you that you shared what you were going through. As i mentioned when i first got down there i really didnt want to be there because i feel like you are in prison or whatever. In fact, i was calling my daughters get me out of here. It is a public phone, there is a little they take your cell phones. So you have to use a certain phone in certain hours, so, just get me out of here please so about four days in, i surrendered to it and said i need to take care of this, im in this funk. Im in a bad mood most of the time and reason why i didnt want to go away to therapy or Treatment Center is i didnt want to relive the pain which everybody can relate to relive the last 13 or 14 years. But then one of the therapist in the first couple days says well, you are reliving that pain every day why not get it over with in 30 days. It is like going to the dentist, sit in this dental chair for three or four hours and put up with this pain, and , then, by the end of the first. And, thinks the best i have ever felt in my life, in my life. Im taking you back to when i was, a kid in ill meantry school, high school, college, 20s, 30s. This is the best i have ever felt in my life, and i wish that everybody watching, everybody in my life could go through what i went through over that 31 days. What do you think was the thing that dit most. Group therapy where you know you are not alone in having these feelings. Getting knowledge. Knowledge is power. Learning from, scientific side of depression in your brain that there is a natural dip in mood as you get older. They say from 25 to 30 years of age you are at a peak and then from about 30, it is starting to go down, all of your responsibilities, down, down, down and as if you fix yourself, if you fix this thing this gray matter you will bounce back and in your 60s and then the curve goes up and up and to its highest peak. In your 70s and 80s and 90s it shoots a would have where you are 25 or 30. There is a study that said, the time, happiest burr body was 74. Seventyfour. You have something to look forward to. Check that out. Not that far. You know the other thing i learned, they give you this, i guy came in, great psychiatrist down there. He said 97, this was a study, 97 percent of the things that we worry about, never happen. How about that. Think about that. It is like you create this fear. It is a way of time. Yeah. We appreciate you sharing. Yeah. You have learned some other things, like glasses. Im going through these little mantras and doing exercises, and, in my head. Umhmm. But disclaimer glasses, you pretend you put on glasses, you know and when lou at everybody in your world walking down the street or in the studio or up in the news room a bubble will pop up in their head. You dont know what they are going through. My mom just died. Another bubble, i just had a miscarriage. I just lost my job. That makes you more accepting of other people. Very powerful. We did equine therapy. Im all touchy feeling. Equine therapy. They take you out to this ranch. You work with a individual horse. So this big brown horse, i would walk up behind it and try to get the horse to turnaround and come to you. It is by applying pressure, not by touching the horse or anything but just by good vibes. Horse will turnaround and come over. Do you know the name of the horse you were working with. They wouldnt give us name of the horses. They say if you have the name of the horse you will try to figure out what its personality is, and you know what im trying to say you wouldnt focus on why you are there. If they say the horse is will maker or fire cracker you will be afraid of the horse. But. We have missed you. What else did i do. Rainbows. This is all touchy feely. Is there nothing wrong with touchy feely. Go ahead. No, so at the end of the evening before they put us to bed with some soup and some warm milk and a robe, im telling you this place is fantastic, im just having fun , silver ridge there, is a woman named guess hoy runs the place, hi jesse, thanks for taking care of me and bob, the particular therapist for me, what was i saying, rainbows. At the end of the evening the therapist would come out. There is 10 of us there. Hi to everybody there. So what was the cloud for the day and what was your rainbow. Like do you have a cloud today i havent had one yet i dont think. A cloud would be a negative thing. I dont think. Is what your rainbow. You being back, seriously. You are my rainbow. I have a double rain bow. Do you have a cloud. The cloud is when you were gone. The cloud has been when you are gone. It is funny, you topped the 6 00 and it brings a smile, just the way, everything that you do and the way you talk and you make you laugh and way you surprise us, we have missed you. Even more than. Thanks, karen it felt like we had a Family Member missing im sure viewers can relate to it is just like we had to rally together and be strong for you because you are our family. Well, appreciate that. We like we are all together. I do feel like a family. A dysfunctional family. Im the weird uncle. All families every dysfunctional. I just dont want to be the drunk uncle, anymore, that is keith. I want to thank Thomas Drayton for sitting in for six weeks. He was doing six hours a time. They shortened it. Yes. Four to 10. Give the guy a break. So thank you, thomas. Thomas is wonderful. Thank you to my coworkers. Because things had to be rearranged and stuff like. That so thank you all for that am i done. So see i thought the couch was brought in because, you see, you dont lay down on the couch for therapy anymore. Like karen would be the therapist. What would george say. I thought for sure. You would have a beautiful women you could lay down on her. Did you think thinks where i was do this in North Carolina on my couch, talking to my therapist. Asking me some question. What was the break through moment of your time there. Where you were like i am going to to this. Because i wanted to get out desperately. They allowed me to have my cell phone for a few minutes and my daughter, jessica and jill, im going to start crying sent me a message saying dont leave, you need to do this and finally back to our old dad. So they came to visit me in North Carolina over weekend after three weeks in and they say my god 90s daddies back. We have our dad back. She said in this text stay there, work on yourself because i feel like i have lost you. I wanted you back. That is when you took those pictures thaw shared on facebook. I decided to stay and work on it. Yes. Boy, that got heavy. So through go. So sweet. There was a gym. Did you tell her why that is why you decided to accept it and stay. In certain terms, yeah but i read to a friend of mine and said you should print that out and keep it forever and i will , but i will tell her that i think she would love to hear that. So i was so hung out in the beginning but in the end of the four or five weeks. They say do you want to stay another week. So tv said you can stay another week. It was so cool. But i was staying for the food because they have gourmet chefs. Heres the other thing i am so grateful because i had luxury of being able to go away and i want to thank the folks at the station and up in new york to allow me to time to go away. Not everybody has that luxury for sure. So i really appreciate that and i wont take that for granted in anyway because so many people that could use that 30 days they cant afford it, they dont time, they have families, they cannot getaway. Im bless to have been able to done that. Lets move on and have some fun. We appreciate you sharing. Welcome back. Thanks alex. I love you. I love you. The light in me, sees okay. Do you want my to show so yoga are you flexibly can touch my toes. I can touch my tip of my nose with my tongue now. That is genetic thing. I dont believe youy can stick out my tongue and touch my nose. That one i know. Okay. So you two had a pillow fight. I missed it. I met up with alex on saturday they had a pillow fight in Washington Square park. We did. It was a pillow fight over weekend. I went to the pillow fight. I was concerned. This was on april fools day. I thought it was ace joke. Can i have you prepped witt with my jumps and hops fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com fill your basket with easter only at my giant. If youre looking frien. Hi hi everybody cookie allnew make a new friend playing Liacouras Center this weekend only tickets on sale now liacourascenter dot com lets get back to breaking news out of rush, at least 10 people now are dead, and more than 50 people are hurt, after that blast of a subway station , this is in st. Peters berg, subway system of st. Petersberg russia. We have since learned that several subway stations in the city of been closed and there is also an evacuation underway as they investigate this and figure out more about what is going on. We have learned 10 people have been injured in this. Ten people have been dead. Russian president putin says investigators are looking into possible terror attacks. Yes it seems like this it. He offers his condolence to the families of those killed. We are working to get more information this continues to be, this is a breaking story and tend to get more information and updates and hopefully video of is what going on there for sure, chaotic scene. It will be so interesting with what is going on with russia and President Trump to see how he reacts to this. Im sure he already has. If we get more statements from him we will pass it along to him. 9 25. Sometimes tv using ways are tough, this is a tough one, hundreds of people were, well, they brought their pillows from home and they went over to Washington Square park, this was saturday afternoon. We thought maybe it was going to be a april fools joke. Difficult think it would be april fools joke. What is happening. But it actually started people waiting there 2 45 and then they had that, they were going on for more than an hour , isnt that crazy. Yes. You said were you going to go did you go. I was right there at the beginning in the start, and cool to see t strangers coming together with smiles on their faces and just having fun, families came so dad, playing with their their girls and i met cool people. We have pictures some people came all the way, from berlin, new jersey. So jt, mia, jen, evan, chris, erika they said we wanted to come we heard on the news and said here they are getting me. You have to come. You have to get smashed with the pillow. Then, there was another one, some people got me. Wow. Look at me in tis one family said alex, you have toing photographer in my head. They gave me a pillow. Have fun. Photos. We have another one too. I got right in the middle of it. My technique was to go overtop or gory to hit people. Alex holley beating a child she started it. Just kidding. So it was a lot have rules. Dont fight too hard and make sure you are soft with it, back to my original statement in one was hurt. They have been doing it for years. It happened to fall on april fools. But first saturday in more picts little girl named kennedy. She watches every morning. Hi, kennedy. Shes eight years old. She came with her mom. They were having fun it was just good fun. Great to see so many people. Some people dressed as super heroes. They were having a lot of fun. It is an annual thing. Okay, ale go next year when i bring my temperpedc. Pillows no foam won. Boom. It will be a big food weekend, i love this, every year, manayunk does this, they have put food trucks up and down main street in manayunk, we cannot have all 50 or 60 but we have four. Lets sample some food what do you say. Lets do it. What is this . Its like a little vanilla tastey thing. A vanilla bean . Mmm. They chopped it up in little pieces. Like this little dots. I found one i found one breyers natural vanilla. Milk and fresh cream, and only sustainably farmed vanilla. Very simple. Mmm breyers the good vanilla. Its simple. Were proud to use nongmo sourced ingredients in some of americas favorite flavors. I havent heard that music in about six weeks, been i here with her sign, whats it, welcome home mike. Come give me a hug. Lets go. Oh, i love you. I love you too. Where do you live . Kensington. Thank you for coming over. Let me tell you something happening in manayunk, we have four trucks out here, manayunk has a Food Truck Festival every year. Uhhuh. It is coming up. Okay. I want to hear about it . Yes. Hop over there. Ill tell you all about he all e hey, cory, how many trucks are there at manayunk this year . Several dozen. Dozens when is it, saturday . This saturday . Okay. Revolution tackle. What is it, sunday . It is sunday. Get a new publicist. Hi, good to see you.