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‘People are like . . . “You look good for your age. You look 40-whatever.” Until a 40-year-old shows up’ —CHRIS ROCK, on how he looks at 56, to Extra

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‘I’m not living with Courteney Cox because I’m kicked out of my house. We sold our house here in Beverly Hills, and I needed a place to stay’ —ELLEN DEGENERES, on why she’s residing with the Friends star, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

‘It’s pronounced “cat running across keyboard” ’ —ELON MUSK, on his son X Æ A-Xii’s name, on Saturday Night Live

‘Whenever he hears Daddy’s song, he’ll go, “Oh yeah, that’s Dad. That’s Dad. Like, no big deal, whatever” ’ —JESSICA BIEL, on 6-year-old son Silas’ reaction to dad Justin Timberlake’s music, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

‘People started looking at us and then started looking down, nervously. Because if we were all on the plane, they were in trouble’ —DANIEL DAE KIM, on flying with the Lost cast, on Jimmy Kimmel Live

‘I was like, Who am I without Wembley Stadium saying, “You’re awesome”?’ —CHRIS MARTIN, on evaluating his relationship with fame during the pandemic, on BBC Radio 2

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A Starbucks order goes viral A barista tweeted about a Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino featuring a list of modifications—one pump of honey! extra ice!—as evidence of “why I wanna quit my job.” But the brand said helping customers “craft” drinks remains “the heart of the Starbucks Experience.”

Even George Clooney loves Brad Pitt To promote a fundraiser for his human rights foundation via Omaze, the Oscar winner—in a shirt featuring Pitt’s face—jokingly showed off a room lined with posters of his Ocean’s costar.

Mark Wahlberg packs on the pounds The Ted star almost reached his goal! In a quest to gain 30 lbs. in six weeks for his role as a boxer turned priest in Stu, the actor revealed he put on 20 lbs. in half that time by downing 7,000 calories a day.

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Jesse Williams departs Grey’s Anatomy Dr. Jackson Avery will clock out of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital after 12 seasons on the May 20 episode. “The experience . . . is a gift I’ll carry always,” Williams said.

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the vaccine, that I will be safe. But humans also fundamentally fear change, and I have gotten very used to my quieter life; I enjoy the control and security of my last year working from home. Watching Mare of Easttown on HBO I was thrilled to speak at the #WOW2021 Max or Call My Agent! on conference Whole Health Includes Mental Health on May 13, with Lisa Kudrow, Netﬂix I see people rushing to the Dolly Parton, Ava DuVernay, Mindy office, dressed up and dashing to Kaling and Landon Donovan. Left: in my meetings, and it seems like a world Think Happy T-shirt ($25, bonfire.com/ thinkhappy), which supports YourMomCares, away. While I can’t wait to work with a nonprofit founded by celebrity moms my colleagues in person again (and to impact kids’ mental well-being. dress up!), I also want to retain some get support. We’re continuing that of the serenity I’ve found this year. mission in this issue with Glenn That’s the takeaway: How do we Close, who shares the story (on page continue to safeguard our mental 54) of how bipolar and schizoaffective health and hold on to some of the lessons of this past year? I sleep better disorders have impacted her family, and what she’s done with Bring now that I don’t have to commute; tressful. Scary. Challenging. Change to Mind to end I’ve stayed in closer contact Isolating. The past 14 months ‘HOW DO WE discrimination surrounding with the people I enjoy most; have been all of those things CONTINUE TO I have time to cook, compost, SAFEGUARD OUR mental illness. On May 24 and more for so many of us. They’ve also been a giant pause, where tend my herb garden, MENTAL HEALTH she will kick off a four-part AND HOLD ON virtual-discussion series exercise and sometimes, we’ve thought about what is meanTO SOME OF THE on mental health, with me, ingful in our lives and how we can cope dare I say, do nothing. LESSONS OF May is Mental Health with the world around us. THIS PAST YEAR?’ Billy Porter, Justin Baldoni, Jordin Sparks and others, Awareness month and Now the country is about to enter a destigmatizing mental health issues is streaming on people.com and new phase, as more people are vaccibringchange2mind.org. Working with very important to us at People. Two nated and we try to get back to norcelebrities was particularly important years ago we launched our Let’s Talk mal—whatever that means. Humans for our Let’s Talk About It campaign, About It initiative to encourage fundamentally need social activity, yet because I think everyone believes readers to have vital conversations many of us are feeling a little anxious celebrities’ lives are perfect. Even about their mental health and to about returning to the office and regular social activity. I know, thanks to provide vital resources about where to when someone posts pictures of a shiny life on social media, there’s often more going on behind the scenes. If you see a friend struggling, don’t shy away from reaching out, In every issue our Stories to Make You Smile! page delivers even if you fear you may not have all a bit of joy even in sad times. Back in December we detailed how Daniel Presser and his kids Maddie, 4, the answers. I’ve learned that just and Barton, 2, were fighting quarantine boredom: by opening the door for someone to re-creating famous movie scenes and uploading the share how they are feeling helps. adorable videos on Facebook. When People shared their story—and the Southington, Conn., family’s fundraising In other words, saying, “Let’s talk efforts for Feeding America—“it about it” can be a powerful ﬁrst step really kicked up our followers and smile! to healing. the donations,” says Daniel. Celeb-

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In March, Daniel Presse r, like lots of other parents, was looking for ways to fight quarantine boredom with his kids Maddie, 4, and Barton, 2. So after countless movie marat hons and games of dress-up, Presse r, 37, a producer at ESPN, decided to put the and began re-creating two together— famous scenes from films like The Lion King, Braveheart and Pretty Woman—wit h Maddie and Barton as the actors and his wife, Beth, 35, handling costum es. “We wanted to give people a reason to smile, even just for a 30-second clip,” says began posting his videos Presser, who on Facebook. “Maddie loves it; she runs lines with her toys.” In April they turned into a fundraising effort, their hobby viewers to donate moneyencouraging America. To date, they’v to Feeding e shot more than 40 clips and raised close to $31,000 for the nonpr ofit. to see how much people “It’s incredible are willing to give to help others,” says Presser. “It’s been crazy, but it’s been a lot of fun.”

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STARS ON-SET

Harry Styles and The Crown star Emma Corrin ran on the beach in East Sussex, England, on May 7 while filming Amazon Studios’ drama My Policeman.

On May 4 Zoe Saldana wore a bridesmaid dress while shooting a wedding scene for the Netflix romance series From Scratch in Los Angeles.

Rachel Brosnahan and Michael Zegen posed on the set of Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in Coney Island on May 6.

On May 8 Lily Collins revealed she and Emily in Paris costars Ashley Park (right) and Camille Razat were filming season 2 in Saint-Tropez: “The girls are back.”

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“If you gotta good mom, then you gotta shot at decency,” Dwayne Johnson captioned a Mother’s Day tribute to his “tough” mom, Ata Johnson, on Instagram May 9.

FAMOUS FAMILIES CELEBRATE MOTHER’S DAY “Happy Mother’s Day to my wonderful mom, Betty,” Reese Witherspoon wrote of a picture with her “Mama Bear.”

Lupita Nyong’o thanked mom Dorothy Nyong’o for her guidance, writing, “My mother gave me the power to be my freest and best self.”

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“I do it all for my kids and their future,” Kate Hudson captioned a selfie with her three children (from left), Ryder, 17, Rani, 2, and Bingham, 9.

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“What a privilege it is to be a mom,” wrote Céline Dion, who celebrated the holiday with her sons René-Charles (center), 20, and 10-year-old twins Eddy and Nelson.

Jimmy Fallon wished wife Nancy Juvonen a happy Mother’s Day in a post with their daughters Winnie, 7, and Frances, 6, and pup Gary.

“Best Mother’s Day yet,” Gabrielle Union wrote of her bubble bath with 2-year-old daughter Kaavia.

“#boyMom,” Kelly Rowland captioned a photo with her sons Titan, 6, and Noah, whom she welcomed in January. “Happy Mothers Day to all the Moms out there!”

MEGHAN COUNTS DOWN TO BABY & ARCHIE TURNS 2!

During a virtual appearance on Global Citizen’s VAX Live broadcast on May 8, Meghan Markle said she and husband Prince Harry “are thrilled to soon be welcoming a daughter” as she spoke of the pandemic’s impact on girls and women. Two days earlier she and Harry—whose mental health docuseries with Oprah Winfrey, The Me You Can’t See, will premiere May 21 on Apple TV+—celebrated son Archie’s 2nd birthday by sharing a photo of the growing boy with his balloons, alongside a message advocating for COVID-19 vaccine equity.

JASON & LISA CUDDLE UP

Jason Momoa honored wife Lisa Bonet with a Mother’s Day post on May 9. “All my love to my ohana,” he wrote, using the Hawaiian term for “family.”

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Jennifer Lopez is continuing to

spend time with ex-ﬁancé Ben Affleck following her split from ﬁancé Alex Rodriguez—and they’ve taken their reunion on the road. Shortly after Lopez and Affleck made separate appearances at the VAX Live: The Concert to Reunite the World taping in Los Angeles on May 2, they quietly jetted off to the Big Sky area of Montana—where

Affleck has a vacation home— for a weeklong getaway together. They were spotted returning to L.A. via private jet on May 8. “They both had the week off and wanted to spend time away from L.A.,” says a source close to Lopez. “It was a nice break for Jennifer. She had a great time with Ben. They have a strong connection, and she is very

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Lopez and Affleck spent a week in Montana’s Big Sky resort area. “Jennifer enjoys spending time with Ben,” says a Lopez source.

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On April 29 Affleck was seen getting dropped off at the Hotel BelAir in Lopez’s SUV after spending time at her home.

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During the May 2 VAX Live taping, Lopez performed “Sweet Caroline,” and Affleck separately took the stage with Jimmy Kimmel.

interested. It’s all been quick and intense, but she is happy.” were supposed to walk down the aisle, citing tabloid scrutiny as the cause. They officially split a few months While Lopez, 51, and Affleck, 48, have remained later. “Ben broke Jennifer’s heart many friendly since their split in 2004, they ﬁrst years ago,” says the source close to Lopez. got fans excited about the possibility of a “She never got proper closure.” Still, rekindled romance when they were spotted Lopez—who spent Mother’s Day in Miami spending time together at Lopez’s L.A. with her mom, Guadalupe, and 13-year-old home on April 28, two weeks after she twins Emme and Max (with ex-husband announced the end of her engagement Marc Anthony), while Affleck posted a tribto Rodriguez, 45. Affleck has also been ute to his ex-wife Jennifer Garner, 49, and single since splitting from girlfriend Ana their three kids, Violet, 15, Seraphina, 12, de Armas, 33, in January. But he and Lopez and Samuel, 9—“doesn’t want to ignore “are not making any plans about the anything that could turn out to be great future,” says the source, who notes that now,” says the source. “She is open to havwith Lopez’s home base in Miami and Home for ing a relationship with him.” Going forAffleck’s in L.A., “it’s not an easy situation” M o t h e r ’s D a y ward, Lopez “wants to spend as much time for them to be together. Lopez spent the holiday in Miami with her mom and with Ben as possible,” says the source, “to Further complicating things are unreher twins, while Affleck see where this could go.” solved feelings from the past. Affleck and posted a tribute to ex —BRIANNE TRACY with repor ting Lopez got engaged in 2002 but postponed Jennifer Garner and their three kids, who live in L.A. by Pernilla Cedenheim their 2003 wedding just days before they

Stars Speak Out Against the Golden Globe Awards

Scarlett Johansson and Tom Cruise are the latest stars to take a stand against the Hollywood Foreign Press Association—the insular group of 80-plus journalists who vote on the Golden Globes—after allegations of ethical lapses and a startling lack of diversity. The group acknowledged it has no Black members. Now many in Hollywood are demanding more reform than the HFPA has promised. “It is time that we take a step back from the HFPA,” said Johansson, who also called out “sexist” treatment from its members. On May 10 NBC Ta k i n g A c t i o n announced it would no longer air the 2022 awards. That same day, Tom Johansson Cruise returned his three Globes as a sign of solidarity. Says a Hollywood and Cruise are slamming source: “It starts to restore one’s faith in the industry when you see so the lack many come together to call out inequality.” — K A R A W A R N E R of diversity in the HFPA.

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Wedding bells will soon ring for Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s youngest daughter, 27, and her director boyfriend, 32. “Hands still shakin,” posted clothing designer Willis, who said she “scoured the world” to pick out her 1910s Asscher cut diamond ring.

The Parks and Recreation actress, 36, and the director, 43, tied the knot, her rep confirms. The pair—who collaborated on films including 2014’s Life After Beth—have dated since 2011.

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The comedian, 38, and the makeup artist, 35, are separating after six years of marriage. In December Mulaney checked in to rehab to focus on his sobriety after a relapse. “I am heartbroken that John has decided to end our marriage. I wish him support and success as he continues his recovery,” Tendler said in a statement.

Two years into their romance, all’s well for the actor, 48, and the model and former Miss World America, 27. Coupled up since early 2019, they stepped out for date night at sushi hot spot Nobu in Malibu on May 2.

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Bill & Melinda Gates: What Went Wrong

Six days after filing for divorce, Melinda en’s issues and what and who Gates tweeted a photo of her three kids they helped with the foundawith the message: “Whatever Mother’s tion. Bill was—and is—far Day means to you—a day to celebrate a more interested in the busimom, honor a memory, or reflect on your ness side of his life.” Melinda, own resilience—I hope your day is a meanwho reportedly began seeing ingful one.” Clearly, Melinda, 56, will need divorce attorneys in 2019, all the resilience she can muster in the had also been concerned for months ahead. On May 3 she and several years about Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, her husband’s 65—renowned for their philannumerous meetthropic work and worth an estiings with convicted sex offender mated $129 billion—announced Jeffrey Epstein, who proposed a the end of their 27-year marplan to help raise funds for the riage, describing it as “irretrievcouple’s foundation. “Epstein is ably broken” in court filings. A n O l d F l a m e definitely a sore spot,” says the While the news made global Bill reportedly took source. “That’s a long time for a long weekend headlines, the marriage has issues to fester.” each year, which been troubled for years. Bill’s vacations with his forMelinda was aware “They’ve grown apart for a varimer girlfriend Ann Winblad, of, with his former ety of reasons,” says one source. a prominent venture capitalist, girlfriend Ann Winblad. “She’s more interested in womalso raised eyebrows in their

Island Refuge Melinda and the kids—Phoebe, Jennifer and Rory (left, with Bill and Melinda in 2019)— recently rented a private island in Grenada for $132,000 a night as the divorce announcement neared.

world. “He could have treated Melinda better,” says the source. “He’s not a saint, but there isn’t one thing that created the final split. It goes deeper than that.” For now the couple and their kids—Jennifer, 25, Rory, 21, and Phoebe, 18—hope to put the drama behind them. Adds a friend: “I think the whole family wishes this would go away so they can return to their lives—whatever that may be now.” — J O H N N Y D O D D with reporting by Linda Marx May 24, 2021

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As sisters Aly and AJ Michalka finished their first album in 14 years, their 2007 hit “Potential Breakup Song” had a resurgence last year when it went viral on TikTok. “It was a cool surprise,” says Aly, 32. So the former teen stars dropped a version with explicit lyrics— proving they’ve come a long way since their Disney Channel fame. After signing with Disney’s Hollywood Records in 2004, the Torrance, Calif., natives Aly and AJ, 30, notched a string of Hot 100 hits and starred in the teen rom-com Cow Belles. The sisters believe they avoided the pitfalls of young fame because of their

bond. “Most child actors don’t have a sibling also experiencing the same success at the same time,” says Aly. “That gave us a lot of normalcy.” Aly and AJ are still all about the family business. Aly’s husband, director Stephen Ringer, 36, and AJ’s boyfriend, actor Josh Pence, 38, worked on the videos for their new album, A Touch of the Beat Gets You Up on Your Feet Gets You Out and Then into the Sun. “We just get each other,” AJ says of her relationship with her sister now. “There’s a finishingeach-other’s-sentences that we have in our music as well. This dynamic is really special.” —JEFF NELSON

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Cher’s Elephant Rescue The singer, 75, documents her quest to free one special pachyderm in Cher & The Loneliest Elephant

Why I Care

PERSONAL Kaavan the elephant was confined at the Islamabad Zoo for STORIES ABOUT more than 30 years. I started reading about the Free Kaavan GIVING campaign on Twitter [in 2016]. The photos were horrible. BACK He was shackled and in distress. I remember thinking, “I can’t go to Islamabad and save an elephant,” but we just put one foot in front of another. Mark Cowne and I started the Free the Wild organization to help end the mistreatment of wild animals in captivity and then began the four-year process of bringing Kaavan to a sanctuary in Cambodia. In November 2020 we flew to Pakistan and partnered with Dr. Amir Khalil from Four Paws, who trained Kaavan to go into a large crate so he could travel on an airplane. Elephants love music. Dr. “It was a life-changing Amir got him hooked on the song “My Way.” Even though he experience,” says Cher (with Kaavan in and I sounded horrible together, when we started to sing, I could November) of filming see a change in Kaavan. I think he knew we were there to help the documentary him. When we saw Kaavan again in Cambodia, it was so joyous. Cher & the Loneliest Elephant, now I noticed how calm he was, and his trainer said, “Well, there’s girls streaming on the here.” And I thought, “Oh God, chicks and a new house!”

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DRAMA In this adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel by Moonlight director Barry Jenkins, the Underground Railroad is an actual train, chugging along beneath the surface of the earth on an unpredictable path—it’s not clear how all the rails are connected, why at some points Blacks making their way to freedom enter at a gleaming station and at other points exit through a hole in the ground. While never stinting on the historic horrors of slavery, this remarkable 10-hour epic unfolds like a dream—a nightmare that keeps reinventing itself beyond the dreamer’s control. Cora (Thuso Mbedu), a runaway slave from Georgia being pursued by an unstoppable slave

hunter (Joel Edgerton), repeatedly embarks and disembarks, expecting liberty but instead encountering racism reconfigured for a new setting. In South Carolina, for instance, Blacks are treated (condescendingly) as a species of humanity deserving of uplift and improvement. But this is just a cover for a program of eugenics. In North Carolina, Blacks are completely outlawed—hanged if found—and Cora has to hide for months in an attic, as if she were Anne Frank. Jenkins is the rare director to disregard the expository narrative that defines most series TV: Instead, incidents seem to float in lightness and dark, suspended in memory. So: Watch this, but don’t try to binge it. (Launches May 14)

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The actress, 33, plays new mother Madison on NBC’s hit This Is Us (Tuesdays, 9 p.m.)

You and Madison are both first-time moms— you and show creator Dan Fogelman have a son, Ben, turning 1 soon. He’s a full quarantine baby. I take him outside and he’s like, “What is this light?” To be home with him was great.

DRAMA A boy (Finn Little) is trapped alone in the Montana woods, running from the two assassins who targeted his father. He crosses paths with Hannah (Angelina Jolie), a smoke jumper. Since suffering a traumatic incident of her own, she watches for outbreaks of fire from a high tower, like a fairy-tale survivalist. There’ll be a conflagration, all right, with gunshots accompanying the flames. Director Taylor Sheridan (Wind River) is a modern master of the shoot-’em-out. More on Jolie and costar Medina Senghore, page 50. (Launches May 14; also in theaters, R)

Do you help Dan with story lines? He’ll bounce ideas [off me]. We are living, eating and breathing the Pearson family at this point—I feel like I know them better than my own. — K A R E N MIZOGUCHI

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ROCK St. Vincent has shapeshifted once again, ditching the neon-hued electro-pop of 2017’s Masseduction in favor of warm, textured rock. Loaded with Wurlitzer keyboards, saxes and sitars, songs like “Down and Out Downtown” call to mind ’70s touchstones like Steely Dan. (May 14)

STARZ | Death and Nightingales A different shade of Jamie Dornan

DRAMA Set in Northern Ireland in 1885, this miniseries is a tale of passions kindled and thwarted—or, perhaps more accurately, violently throttled. Beth (Ann Skelly) and her lover (Jamie Dornan) conspire to rob her stepfather (Matthew Rhys) and run off together. The premise promises a narrative with the wild, headstrong will of a Brontë novel— this may have something to do with seeing Dornan, for whom we sigh and sigh again, dressed in period costume—but Nightingales has the morbid psychological coolness of a crime thriller. (May 16, 10 p.m.)

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On the Fox action drama, the 26-year-old actor plays Carlos Reyes, a police officer who’s gay and Latino—“and that’s something that I take in full consideration and with a lot of responsibility,” he says, “because I am both.” The Brazil native was “super nervous” the first time he worked with costar Rob Lowe. But he recovered: “[Having] someone like that next to you is awesome.”

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REALITY Emerging from their mansions as the pandemic wanes, the ladies face a Los Angeles emptied of parties and red carpet opportunities. “The one thing that quarantine has taught me,” says Erika Jayne, “is that on a dime the world can change.” In the premiere, they all make do with a barbecue (it’s catered ﬁnger food). Season 11 also brings in the cast’s ﬁrst Asian American member, Crystal Kung Minkoff, whose husband, Rob, codirected the original Lion King. Welcome! (May 19, 8 p.m.)

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The show must go on—and on! FAMILY Season 2 begins with a change of plans backstage at East High: The kids are expecting the next production to be High School Musical 2, but Miss Jenn announces that they’ll be doing a different show. Hint: It’s a Disney property, and it features roles for teapot and candelabrum. Everyone sings and dances at the drop of a hat—Series has an abundance of bounce. (Launches with one episode May 14)

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Leslie Jones hosts this year’s event, with nominees including Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) and Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah). And get this— the next night MTV launches Unscripted, a spinoff awards show for reality TV. (May 16, 9 p.m.; Unscripted, May 17, 9 p.m.)

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“You could never plan for a life like this,” Pink says of her enduring success.

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battled COVID-19 last spring. For 12 weeks “we were really, really sick, and it was dicey,” adds Pink, 41, who was so concerned about her condition that she rewrote her will while battling the virus. “It was really scary.” Once she recovered, the pop star— known for her empowering anthems and highflying performances—tackled a new role: teacher. “I started making all these color-coded charts. From 9 to 10 we’re doing art. Then 10:30 to 11:30 was PE, and we’re going to run around outside,” recalls Pink, who also shares daughter Willow, 9, with her husband, pro motocross racer Carey Hart, 45. “It was like, okay, we just have to figure it out.” Pink has learned to go with the flow over the years. Born Alecia Moore and raised in suburban Pennsylvania, Pink was a rebellious teen. She clashed with

Her parents split when she and her brother Jason were young. “I was looking at all these adults like, ‘Why are you the one giving me advice? I’m happy. You’re not,’ ” says Pink (in 1987).

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Pink (in 1988) was a dancer and gymnast as a child: “I walked different, I talked different, and I wasn’t into all the rules and all these boxes.”

All I Know So Far shows what it’s really like to go on tour with your family, toddler tantrums and all. Why share these intimate moments?

There’s not a lot of women headlining stadiums and doing two nights at Wembley Stadium while having a family on the road. [Director Michael Gracey] had never seen a mom changing diapers while having a creative meeting, and just the way that this big life intersects with being a normal, crazy family— there’s something fascinating about that. I’m always trying to ﬁgure out: “Am I doing the right thing? Can a

“I had other ideas that were outside of what the authority figures around me deemed appropriate or correct,” she says of her outlook as a teen.

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She was inspired by Cher and “Madonna—the way she used to tour Truth or Dare-style— but also Les Mis and The Phantom of the Opera and Annie and Queen and Billy Joel and Bon Jovi,” says Pink (as a child).

her parents, got kicked out of the house and was homeless before scoring her ﬁrst record deal. Since her debut album, Can’t Take Me Home, launched her to fame in 2000, Pink has won three Grammys and become one of the most successful acts in pop music. Now she’s offering a rare backstage glimpse at how she navigates her life as a rock star mom in her new Amazon Prime Video documentary P!nk: All I Know So Far (streaming May 21), which was ﬁlmed prepandemic as she toured the world in 2019 with her family in tow. Over a Zoom call from her home in California, the singer opened up about raising children on the road, why her marriage is stronger than ever—and the lesson she learned in quarantine: “Life sort of just distills itself down into what joy you can squeeze into your days.”

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“He has been my muse,” Pink says of husband Hart (on the set of the video for her new single “All I Know So Far,” which shares the title of her documentary).

H e r N o. 1 Fa n s

Jameson and Willow also appear in her new music video: “Willow’s really strange like I am but has Carey’s logic. Then Jameson is just a little psychopath. He’s so funny.”

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“We’re happy when we’re outside with our kids and there’s sunshine,” Pink says of her family (in 2019).

woman have it all? What does that even mean?” And the answer is no, most of the time you can’t, and it feels like you’re climbing Mount Everest. But it’s also so magical what I get to do and who I get to be in this life. What’s the most difficult part of managing it all?

Touring with kids is impossible—and I did the impossible. For a while there were a lot of other pop stars that were emailing me and calling me for the playbook on how to tour with kids, so I wrote a playbook for other moms. You just keep going. I’m just thinking about: “Am I raising a kind person? What’s it like to be my kid?”

Your kids definitely have a different childhood than you did. Do they know what you do isn’t normal?

What’s normal now? We used to go to offices, and now we can stay in our underwear. But they think I’m pretty normal in a weird way! They don’t know anything else. My mom [Judith] was an ER nurse, and my dad [Jim] was in insurance sales when I grew up in Doylestown, Pa. The furthest I went was the Atlantic City shore to see my grandparents. Their normal is different: We go on tour and have a ball pit in Mommy’s dressing room. But they are normal kids. Jameson wants to be an astronaut. Willow does gymnastics and reads Harry Potter and is convinced she’s going to Hogwarts when she’s 11, and I don’t have the heart to tell her that she’s May 24, 2021

not. They’re totally weird and joyful, and I’m loving every moment of it. Did you ever consider leaving the kids at home while you were on the road?

No. The ﬁrst half of my life my priority was to get the hell out, like, “I want to be a rock star. I want to join the circus and run away.” Once I became a mom, I wanted to create a life outside of this for myself and for my family, because all this stuff can

go away, and what do you have at the end of it? You have the people that are important to you, your health, hopefully, and a safe place to be. What is your greatest joy as a mom?

For someone with as much masculine energy as I have, the fact that I had a little girl—I didn’t think I could make a girl. It was so healing for me to see how we start out on this earth. She’s just so magical and has been my greatest teacher. And then Jameson comes in, and he’s like this mini Chris Farley. I don’t know what to do with him at this point. I’m putting away money for his bail. Even the hard days are a blessing. In the film you say you were hesitant to have kids because of your relationship with your own mom. How did you mend that?

Pop Star s, Assemble!

In 2004 Pink (right) famously starred in a gladiator-themed Pepsi commercial with Beyoncé and Britney Spears.

She won her first Grammy for “Lady Marmalade” in 2002.

With her Video Vanguard Award at the 2017 VMAs.

PINK’S SOARING SUCCESS

Since 2000 Pink has released eight studio albums and become a must-see performer: Her Beautiful Trauma World Tour is the second-highestgrossing world tour of all time by a solo female artist. Her new live collection All I Know So Far: SetList drops May 21. She’ll receive the Icon Award at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards. And she’s not going anywhere. “I thirst for connection. That’s why I love touring,” she says. “We’re all there to exorcise our demons, and we’ve found a song in common to do it.”

You also talk about how Carey has no ego when it comes to taking care of the kids when you’re in rock star mode. What kind of father and husband is he?

Carey was raised by a single dad, so he knows how to do it all. Sometimes I feel like he wishes he was a single dad. [Laughs] He comes from such a dysfunctional family, and we’re his people, so he feels safe now. He’s always home for dinner. If I’m tired or don’t feel well, he’ll cook. He does all the dishes. We don’t believe in roles. Coming from that sort of moto world, which can be construed as hypermasculine, he’s not. He’s superhot, but he’s also supersensitive. How has your relationship changed over the years?

Carey was this crazy single moto guy, and I was this up-and-coming psycho pop star. We’ve really grown up together, and now we’re these super-responsible parents who have a farm. I have a vineyard and make wine, and he builds motorcycles instead of crashing them. When you ﬁrst get together, you look at that person as your entire world. One person can’t be your entire world. You have to have your own passions, your own friends,

—Layla, 10 Be really kind to other girls, cheer them on, and don’t listen to anybody tell you that you can’t do something just because you’re a girl.

—Kersean, 9 Yes, we do. My husband got Jameson on his first motorcycle when he was 3 years old— same with Willow!

—Madison, 4 Willow’s a weirdo. I’m super into it. She also likes to have dance parties with me after dinner, and that’s really fun.

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“My mom is like, ‘Can you just stay on the ground?’ Why would I?” Pink (in 2019) says of her acrobatics on tour.

She kicked me out when I was 15. It took me about six years to come back to her. I needed her when I was 21. She was there for me, and we’ve been best friends ever since. We were together last week, talking about regrets that we had. She comes from a generation that’s not very good at apologizing. I’ll never forget, but I’m here to forgive. I will apologize to anybody for anything, because I believe in the power of apology.

PINK ANSWERS KIDS’ QUESTIONS!

your own time to yourself. I used to be super needy. Now we expect less of each other, and that allows us to give each other more somehow. You two separated for nearly a year in 2008. How have you worked on your marriage over the years?

I am a huge proponent of counseling in general. We both have therapy, individually, and we do couples counseling. Long-term relationships are not easy. It is much easier to stay in the solid days and jump from relationship to relationship, because then you don’t have to fix the problems that keep recurring. You have to end up fixing yourself; you can’t fix the other person. So it can be challenging, and there’s good days and there’s bad days. I think it’s an impossible expectation for you to think that you’re going to evolve at exactly the same pace as another person in exactly the same direction. So it takes work to redefine what’s important. I don’t want to break up my family. That’s been my main goal, since I had a broken family. So sometimes you have to let it go. You can’t die on every mountain. Early on in your career you were pitted against other female artists like Christina Aguilera and even marketed as an “anti-Britney Spears” figure. How did that affect you?

It was so unfair to all the girls. None of us wanted that. I love Britney—she used to carry around my album. I was like, “Dude, I’m a street punk, I just skateboard. That doesn’t have to be the antiBritney. I don’t want to ﬁght anybody.” One of the best things that [music executive] L.A. Reid ever told me was that this music business is big enough for everybody to win at the same time. There’s no such thing as competition. I think we navigated through it as good as a 20-year-old girl can. Now I think it’s totally different. Girls supporting girls is rad—I love to watch it. You’ve accomplished so much. What are your hopes for the future?

My goals are to not completely screw up my kids, to keep making music that is honest and to be there for my parents as they age. I’ve already perfected sourdough and can knit a baby blanket. What else is there?

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GIVING CANCER THE BOOT Hollis Belger, 16 A competitive soccer player from 8 to 14, Hollis Belger knew that practicing juggling—keeping the ball aloft with controlled kicks—would improve her on-field skills. She also found a way it could save lives. Introduced to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital by her mother and inspired to help, the high school junior from Larkspur, Calif., launched Juggling for Jude in 2014 to solicit charitable sponsors for her emerging talent. Gradually, Belger expanded to clinics, public speaking engagements and an ALS Ice Bucket-style challenge, in which participants film themselves juggling, tag friends on social media and donate $10 to St. Jude. Last month Belger topped the half-million-dollar mark—and, like her record for consecutive juggles (5,350 and counting), it’s a milestone she’s determined to best. “I plan on juggling until no child has to worry about pediatric cancer,” she says. “There has never been a day when I wanted to give up.”

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K i c k-S t a r t e r

“I have a goal. I have a vision,” says Belger, who documents her fundraising on Instagram (@juggling_for_jude).

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WELCOMING FOSTER CHILDREN IN STYLE Nijel Murray, 17

Four years ago, after a new foster brother arrived at Nijel Murray’s home holding only a trash bag of ill-fitting clothes, the fashion-loving high school senior had an epiphany. “I really felt for him and the other kids who have to go through that,” says the Las Vegas native. “I thought I could do something to change things.” With the help of his parents, he launched Klothes 4 Kids, a nonprofit that supplies clothing, toiletries, books, toys and other essentials—all stuffed into brand-new duffel bags—for children in foster care. In partnership with local social service agencies, Murray has distributed more than 2,000 bags. “It’s made me more grateful for what I have,” says Murray, who plans to study business at UNLV and hopefully expand K4K’s reach. “And it gives me joy to provide for others.”

A Pe r fe c t Fi t

“I try to match the clothes to them personally,” says Murray, who has staged a “pop-up shop” for foster children (inset), stocking it with “things they’re actually going to like.”

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INSPIRING OTHERS WITH DISABILITIES Jordan Reeves, 15

Jordan Mittler, 17 Five years ago Jordan Mittler gave his grandparents smartphones—gifts that initially created more problems than they solved. “I wasn’t expecting them to be so confused,” he admits. Sensing that other seniors could benefit from his tech tutorials, the high school junior from New York City visited a local nursing home and volunteered assistance to anyone who wanted it. He soon expanded his operations, now called Mittler Senior Technology, launching a free, 10-week course to seniors at his synagogue. Last year, when the pandemic rendered in-person meetings impossible, Mittler made a logical pivot, taking his classes virtual for more than 2,000 participants and updating his curriculum to include practical yet essential skills: FaceTiming, ordering from Amazon, accessing online newspapers and learning Zoom etiquette. “Social isolation is a huge problem, especially during COVID,” he says. “Technology is the answer.”

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Mittler (center) tutors seniors via Zoom. His advice for his peers: “Call your grandparents.”

Designing with Joy

Last summer Reeves was the youngest individual honored at a commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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KEEPING THE ELDERLY CONNECTED

On the Grid

Born without the bottom half of her left arm, Jordan Reeves sees opportunity where others might see only limitations. At 10 she invented a 3D-printed glitterblasting prosthesis featured on Marvel’s Hero Project. “When people hear about disabilities, they think, ‘Oh, that’s so sad,’ ” she explains. “But this turned it into something joyful.” Since then the freshman from Columbia, Mo., has designed a “Swiss Army” arm with various tools attached and, in collaboration with Microsoft, a prototype guitar that people with physical disabilities can play. Reeves’s message: “Believe in yourself. If you have something you like, follow the journey—see where it goes.” It’s a mantra she and her mother, Jen, reinforce through their Born Just Right nonprofit, which offers online STEM education and design resources for people with limb differences. “The goal is awareness,” Reeves says, “so people who make things make those things work for everyone.”

TEENS CHANGING THE WORLD

Next-Gen Leader

“We’re not the letter-writing type,” says Clarke (at the Youth Climate Strike in San Francisco in March 2019).

RALLYING TEENS TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT Isha Clarke, 18 As a child, Isha Clarke listened to her grandfather’s stories of activism in the 1960s. “It was so personal,” says the Oakland native, who will attend Howard University in August. “I felt like I had this in my blood.” She found her own calling as a climate justice activist during freshman year in high school, after protesting the construction of a coal terminal in West Oakland, a predominantly Black community. In 2019 she was among a group of young people who attracted worldwide attention when their plea to Sen. Dianne Feinstein to join the Green New Deal went viral. A founding member of Youth vs. Apocalypse, a group fighting for equitable and sustainable climate policies, Clarke has spent a gap year giving presentations to high schoolers, lobbying lawmakers and strategizing for new campaigns. “We are fighting to build a world in which all living beings can thrive,” Clarke says. “I believe we can do that in this generation.” JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES; INSET: AARON MOLO

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TEENS CHANGING THE WORLD

FIGHTING ANTI-ASIAN DISCRIMINATION Joy Ruppert, 16 Adopted from Chongqing, China, when she was a year old, Joy Ruppert has encountered her share of racial insensitivity. “People pulling their eyes back or trying to speak Japanese to me,” says the sophomore from Encinitas, Calif. “Those things shouldn’t be happening today, but they are.” Determined to end racial discrimination, Ruppert joined Encinitas4Equality, organizing protests as a youth leader for the local community group. She then honed that message as student body vice president of her school, spearheading a coalition that has lobbied the district for a more diverse curriculum and anti-racist amendments to the student handbook. “Everyone should feel heard, welcomed and represented,” she says. “That’s my goal.”

Brotherly Love

“The business comes straight from the heart,” says Rodriguez (with younger brother Joel, inset right, who inspired Tasium).

SUPPORTING PEOPLE WITH AUTISM Jose Rodriguez Jr., 17 In September 2018 Jose Rodriguez Jr. had a flash of inspiration while helping his brother Joel, who is on the autism spectrum, search for a missing fidget toy to manage his anxiety: a T-shirt with interchangeable toys discreetly attached so they wouldn’t get lost. The senior from Cumberland, R.I., pitched the concept to a national youth entrepreneur competition, besting 20,000 other entrants and earning $12,000 to patent and produce his line. His company Tasium (an anagram of autism) is doing well, according to Rodriguez, who will attend Babson College in Massachusetts, but his central mission is still service. He’s donated a quarter of his shirts to autism support organizations and hopes that Tasium will one day sponsor the Special Olympics. “I’m all about helping people like my brother,” he says.

Inclusion for All

Ruppert leads a protest at San Dieguito High School Academy (top) to support multicultural education.

SIMPLIFYING REMOTE LEARNING Ankitha Kumar, 18

Homework Helper Kumar (in 2019) with a student at the Good Neighbor Center in St. Paul.

When the pandemic hit, Ankitha Kumar began receiving frantic texts from students she helped at the local tutoring center. Online courses were confusing, so the high school senior from Inver Groves Heights, Minn., decided to offer free virtual sessions to kids of all ages. Overwhelmed with requests, she and two friends launched ConneXions Tutoring, specializing in general coursework, ACT prep and scholarship search assistance. Now with 17 volunteers, Kumar has worked with 365 students in all 50 states and 12 countries. “I love watching them have an aha moment when a concept clicks,” says Kumar, who plans to attend Emory University and remain an adviser to ConneXions, which will continue virtual sessions postpandemic. “It makes me happy that I’ve been able to be a part of their journey.” CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: COURTESY ANKITHA KUMAR; COURTESY TASIUM(2); COURTESY JOY RUPPERT; LEE AUERBACH

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MAKING AFFORDABLE HOUSING FEEL LIKE HOME

“I summoned the powers of Miranda Bailey,” says Taylor, referencing actress Chandra Wilson’s character on Grey’s Anatomy.

John Michael Stagliano, 18 Five years ago, while volunteering at a local shelter, John Michael Stagliano learned that permanent housing is a blessing—but for formerly homeless people, it’s often bare-bones, without furniture, kitchenware or other essentials. “It was absolutely heartbreaking,” recalls the high school junior from Summerville, S.C. The discovery inspired Stagliano to collect beds, silverware and more from family and neighbors to furnish the newly rented home of three men who had recently left the shelter. He dubbed the project Home Again, and today Stagliano and his team of 10 volunteers have furnished new homes for 461 men, women and children. Many are veterans, including Walter Edwards, 68, of Charleston, who was sleeping on his floor for two weeks before Home Again swooped in. “What they are doing is a blessing to everybody,” says Edwards.

A Good Neighbor

“It’s such a rewarding experience,” says Stagliano of helping formerly homeless individuals like Walter Edwards (top).

DEVELOPING LIFESAVING MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Dasia Taylor, 17

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In her AP Human Geography class, Dasia Taylor learned that in developing countries, postsurgical infection can often lead to death. Armed with that knowledge—and a healthy obsession with Grey’s Anatomy—the high school senior from Iowa City made a world-class breakthrough: stitches that change color when wounds become infected. The secret? Beet juice. “It’s a natural indicator,” she explains. “It reacts when the pH changes.” Taylor won local and statelevel science fairs and was named a finalist at the Regeneron Science Talent Search, a national competition that tasks young people with solving society’s most urgent challenges. Now she’s patenting her invention and hoping to set up commercial lab space to continue her research. “These stitches will revolutionize treatment,” she says. “My goal is to get them to those who need them.”

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Medina Senghore & Angelina Jolie

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LIFESAVERS

In their new movie, Senghore (with Jon Bernthal) plays a pregnant survivalist and Jolie a wilderness firefighter.

hey play women who can deliver a punch to protect others in the new thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead, and in real life Angelina Jolie and Medina Senghore are unafraid to use their voices to do the same. Jolie, 45, who’s back in an action movie for the first time in a decade, is a mom of six and a longtime advocate for women and children around the globe. Senghore, 43, is a buzzy star with an impressive background: A Harvard Law School grad, she followed her acting dreams in her 30s, attended Juilliard and uses her social media to highlight social-justice issues. A mom of two, she says, “I know now that strength and the need for help live side by side.” Though the pair only met recently, they share a kinship. “When we did talk, it was about women’s strength,” says Jolie. Your characters are put through a lot in this movie, fighting both wildfires and armed villains. What drew you to the story? MEDINA SENGHORE One of the things

that attracted me to it was the fact that my character is pregnant, and so it really just put me in the mind frame of women who are facing challenges and struggle and who find themselves in peril— getting a chance to embody that type of strength, that was very attractive. ANGELINA JOLIE Our characters, who are these survivalists, these smokejumpers—there are many real and extraordinary women who live like this, and they’re not superheroes. They’re

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Though they don’t share any scenes, Jolie and Senghore hit it off. “I think this year has been a lot of learning to embrace paradox,” says Senghore.

regular American women. And that was very nice to play and to sit with and learn about. The other thing that was interesting to me was to play a frontline worker—I think we’ve all spent a lot of time thinking so much about those who are on the front lines of COVID and around the world. The past 14 months have been difficult for everyone. What are you most thankful for? SENGHORE Well, one of the things I’m thankful

for is that the forced quiet of this time has taught me about that balance of strength and vulnerability, and has gotten me more in touch with when I

‘I FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD ASK ALL THE KIDS— HOW’D WE DO DURING THE PANDEMIC?’ —ANGELINA JOLIE

SUPERMOMS AND THEIR KIDS PANDEMIC ADVENTURES

Senghore and husband Kareem Collie keep their kids Rayaan and Elyas busy exploring nature.

THEY’RE GROWING UP!

Jolie with Pax, now 17, Shiloh, 14, Vivienne, 12, Zahara, 16, and Knox, 12, in 2019 (not pictured: Maddox, 19).

need help and not experiencing that as a fault. And I’m also thankful for people who have taken this challenging time and risen up and beyond themselves to help others. JOLIE I don’t know what to add to that! I completely agree. We see how there are no borders. We are all affected by each other. We are all in this and survive this life together or we don’t. I think those of us who are able to keep working and take care [of our families], keep our homes, do all of that, we are very conscious of those who haven’t. You’re both moms—how have your kids been handling the pandemic? SENGHORE I think they would deﬁnitely give me

a mixed mark. If we’re looking for silver linings, we’ve had to be more creative about how we entertain the kids. Mine are very young [Rayaan, 6, and Elyas, 3], so they need lots of outdoors and climbing. We did so much more hiking and so much more outdoor exploring than we had prior to COVID. JOLIE I’ve found that the kids have really come together. I have a big group, and with Maddox coming back from college and being in the same house,they’ve really had to manage this together. So that was kind of a silver lining, to see how they work as a team. We’ve also all gotten very good at dark tag, this new thing that we do where we turn all the lights off and [chase one another]. I also discovered this morning I put the wrong thing on a sandwich—mayonnaise. That was my failure of this morning.

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MENTAL HEALTH Let’s Talk About It

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Brave Hearts

“The fact that Jessie and Calen speak publicly about what they live with—that’s raw courage,” says Close (in 2013, and, opposite, with her sister and nephew in 2016).

Mental Journey A SISTER WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER, A NEPHEW W I T H S C H I ZOA F F EC T I V E D I S O R D E R— M E N TA L ILLNESS HITS CLOSE TO HOME FOR THE ACTRESS, AND SHE’S FIGHTING TO HELP END THE STIGMA By L I Z M c N E I L

“I learned over a lifetime how to hide,” says Jessie Close, “and I hid very well.” But one day in 2004, when she was 50, she ﬁnally told her big sister Glenn about the voice she couldn’t get out of her head, the one saying, Kill yourself. It had become more insistent in recent months, and she feared she might act on it. “I was afraid of what would happen to my kids,” says Jessie, now 67. “I realized they would have heard the gunshot. Oh my God, can you imagine?” As her sister wrapped her in her arms, Jessie told herself, Hang on. Glennie will help you. Together we will ﬁnd a way to make living worthwhile again. Together, they did. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder soon afterward, Jessie was prescribed lithium, among other medications, started therapy and eventually stabilized. Together, the sisters also decided to do what they could to help others who suffered silently as Jessie had, including many in their own family. “When Jessie said she couldn’t stop thinking of killing herself, it was shocking. I had no clue,” says Glenn, 74. Adds Jessie: “When I was growing up, no matter how I behaved, no one could ever imagine it was a mental illness. It just wasn’t part of our conversation.” In 2010 Glenn cofounded the nonprofit Bring Change to Mind (bringchange2mind.org), aimed at raising awareness and ending the May 24, 2021

Close Quartet

UNBREAKABLE BONDS

“Growing up, Jessie was a remarkable soul— original, creative,” says Glenn (left, with her and their brother Alexander and older sister Tina ca. 1958).

Aunt & Advocate

“I think illustrating the inner world can help more people understand,” says Calen (with his aunt Glenn in 1981). “I’ve gotten progressively better. I have bad days, but I’m still fine-tuning.”

“It’s always up and down, but I don’t feel suicidal anymore,” says Jessie (right, with Glenn and Calen at a 1998 film premiere).

‘Being able to talk about mental health is empowering’ —GLENN CLOSE

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stigma around mental illness—and took on a new role as a mental health advocate. Jessie wrote a memoir about her struggles, Resilience, in 2015. “You can’t solve problems unless you start talking about them—and not whispering,” says Glenn. “That changes everything.” The silence surrounding mental illness ran deep in the Close family. Glenn, Jessie and their two siblings, Tina (now 75) and Alexander (70), had a grandmother whom Jessie calls “a beautiful wild woman who’d fall into depression.” Their great-uncle Worrall “would get manic and strip naked in the stable and hop on a horse and gallop all over the countryside.” Yet, notes Glenn: “Nobody ever talked about it. I did know that my mother’s half brother had committed suicide and that her own mother was depressed. [Our mother] was also depressed and took meds for it.”

Fa t a l Attraction

Noting that most people with mental illness are not violent, Close has expressed regret for her 1987 film’s portrayal of an unhinged woman out for revenge.

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Powering Through

The sisters believe their mother’s depression played a role in the decision of their parents (surgeon William Close and his wife, Bettine) in the mid-’50s to join the cultlike religious group the Moral Re-Armament (which preached that world peace came from “Four Absolute Standards”— honesty, purity, unselﬁshness and love). “I think that was a factor in why they were susceptible to such a group,” Glenn says. At the MRA’s compound in Switzerland, the siblings were separated from one another and from their parents, leading the children to feel abandoned. After their parents left the group so William could return to his career in medicine, they settled in Wyoming. Glenn’s acting career took off with The Big Chill and The World According to Garp. And Jessie’s life began to spin out of control. “I turned to booze and drugs and men to quiet my mind,” she says. She nearly overdosed on amphetamines in the early ’70s and had married ﬁve times by the time she was 50. Yet her son would be diagnosed before she was. In 2000 Calen Pick, the oldest of her three children, was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder (a condition that combines the symptoms of schizophrenia and mood disorders) following a psychotic break. He was hospitalized and lived in a halfway house for two years before the right medication regimen got him back on his feet. “I felt it was my fault,” says Jessie (whose younger kids, Sander, 38, and Mattie, 29, remain untouched by mental illness). “I had struggled for years with mood swings, and I knew intuitively that I was responsible for passing along my flaws to my son.” The sadness and guilt, along with her suicidal thoughts, helped propel her to that 2004 cry for help from Glenn. Today Jessie—now 20 years sober, a photographer and writer, and a grandmother of three—lives in Bozeman, Mont., just a few miles from Calen, 39, a painter. Mother and son draw strength from each other. “When I’m not feeling well, Calen is the first person I’ll call,” says Jessie.“He understands.” Knowing that mental illness runs in their family offers a certain solace as well. “To know it’s

not because of your character but your genetics is helpful,” says Calen, though he and his wife, Megan, a therapeutic horseback-riding instructor, will probably not have kids for the same reason. “That Change for would be a worry, passing it on,” he says. Good As for their famous relative, her famIn 2009 Glenn, her daughter ily’s experiences, and the knowledge Annie Starke, As with many illnesses, says encounters the wrong her advocacy has brought, prompted Calen, Jessie and Stephen Hinshaw, UC Berkeley environment, outcomes her to seek help more than a decade Calen’s sister professor of psychology, are usually worse. Mattie filmed a ago. “I went through a series of tests, Bring Change to diseases that affect the mind If you have, say, and they said, ‘You’re depressed,’ ” says Mind PSA at New result from a complex interplay depression in your Glenn. “I think what I’ve lived with is York City’s Grand of genes and environment. family, are you at higher Central Terminal. a low-grade depression that can someMental illness runs in risk for other mental times feel like a mist or a veil, but you’ve families. How much illnesses as well? gotten so used to living with it, it’s not something of a role do genes play? It’s complex. Certain genes you think about much. I do take antidepressants With anxiety and depression, seem to up the risk for many for that, and it helps.” genes contribute about forms of mental disorders. Looking toward the future, she adds, “I envision one-third of the risk; for Do you think raising the day when we talk about mental illness the way schizophrenia, about two-thirds; awareness of the we talk about cancer or diabetes. It’s part of the and for bipolar disorder above genetic component can human condition.” After all, says Jessie, “we’re 80 percent. In general, the more help ease stigma? just regular people.” And with compassion comes severe the mental illness, the It can help us see mental illness acceptance. She dreams, she says, of one day “walkgreater the genetic liability. is not a “character defect.” But ing into a supermarket and seeing a jar that says What environmental it could also reduce a person ‘Please help me, my child has schizophrenia,’ just factors can increase risk? to simply being the product like they do with cancer. If we have less fear and Early trauma, life stress, of “bad genes.” Most of all we negative vs. positive mindneed humanization, through more conversation, maybe we can get there.” sets. And when someone the telling of real-life stories of with genetic vulnerability coping and recovery.

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Shining a Light

“After I was diagnosed, I called Glennie and said, ‘Can you please help? Because the prejudice against mental illness is overwhelming,’ ” says Jessie (right, with Glenn and Calen in Montana in 2014). “And she did.”

TUNE IN On May 24 Glenn Close will kick off a four-part series of virtual discussions on mental health. Streaming through May 27 on PeopleTV, people.com and bringchange2mind .org, the series— Conversations with Bring Change to Mind in Partnership with People—will address mental health in relation to race and the LGBTQIA community, among other topics, and will feature panelists including Billy Porter, Jordin Sparks and People editor Dan Wakeford.

MAYA HAWKE

Making Her Own Way

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Her Blossoming Career

Little Women

In her first major TV role, she tackled the classic for BBC/PBS. “I love experiencing life through another person’s eyes,” she says.

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Stranger Things

The Good Lord Bird

She calls joining her dad on the Showtime miniseries a “wonderful” experience.

Hawke (with Joe Keery and Gaten Matarazzo) will be back as fan favorite Robin for season 4 of the Netflix hit.

Like so many young adults, Maya Hawke, 22, spent part of the COVID-19 pandemic at home with her family. “I had a very fortunate experience,” she says of staying at both mom Uma Thurman’s and dad Ethan Hawke’s upstate New York homes. “I got to be in nature and with people I love.” One thing she didn’t do? Binge her parents’ films. “A lot of their movies I haven’t seen,” Hawke admits. “That was never part of our life. My parents always wanted to be understood by their chil—ON HER dren as people—and the same is true now.” HOBBIES These days Hawke has joined her parents in the spotlight. One of Hollywood’s hottest rising young stars, she started on the megahit Netflix series Stranger Things last season as sardonic mall worker Robin. She’ll be back for the upcoming season 4, but first she takes the lead in director Gia Coppola’s dark comedy Mainstream (now in theaters and on demand) opposite Andrew Garfield. The film follows three people in their quest for Internet stardom. Says Low-Key Hawke: “I loved it so much, I would Fa m i l y L i f e have done catering on Mainstream.” She says parents While it might seem inevitable she’d Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman go down the same career path as her raised her and Oscar-nominated mom and dad (who brother Levon divorced in 2005), Hawke simply feels (right) out of the spotlight: most comfortable acting. “The hap“It wasn’t like, piest place in the world for me was ‘Let’s go to this on-set or onstage,” says the New York premiere.’ ” City-raised actress. Growing up, she struggled to “find the right learning environment” after being diagnosed with dyslexia, she adds. “All my friends made fun of me. I eventually learned that life is complicated, and you have to just be yourself.”

‘I watch a lot of Grey’s Anatomy, I listen to Taylor Swift, and I don’t fold my clothes well’

Mainstream

She felt “unselfconscious” acting with Andrew Garfield in the new dramedy about social media.

She acknowledges her parents’ names helped her get in the door as an actress. “I’m very grateful for the fact that they made it so easy for me to do the thing I love,” she says. But she also knows she has to excel: “I thought, ‘I’ll get a couple chances based on their names, and then if I suck too much, I’ll get kicked out of the kingdom.’ And that’s what should happen—so I’m going to try not to suck!” So far, she certainly hasn’t. After modeling for AllSaints and Calvin Klein, Hawke left Juilliard at the end of her second semester to appear in the 2017 BBC/PBS version of Little Women. The risk paid off. She earned rave reviews as Jo March, which led to her breakout role in Stranger Things. Playing the fan-favorite lesbian character “introduced me to an audience of my own generation, especially a lot of young gay women,” she says. Also a singer, Hawke released her debut album, Blush, last August and loves that her Stranger Things fans came out to support her pre-COVID concerts. “To care enough to go out and hear somebody new try to sing their heart out? It was unbelievably moving to me.” Last fall Hawke acted with her dad for the first time, in Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird but says she feels like they constantly work together: “Whether it’s me calling him from the set like, ‘How do I do this?’ or him helping me with audition tapes, I really see him as my teacher.” She also learned from her parents to focus on her passion for the arts and not to take projects for money or fame. “I feel so lucky to get to participate. I love this business. I love movies. I love music,” she says. “I don’t think I care about making a name for myself.”

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May 24, 2021

BODYBUILDER CHRIS RUDEN

Overcoming My Biggest Fear BORN WITH A SHORT LEFT ARM A N D O N LY T W O F I N G E R S O N H I S LEFT HAND, THE POWERLIFTER SHARES HIS STRUGGLES IN THE HOPE OF INSPIRING OTHERS By J O H N N Y D O D D

Chris Ruden wasn’t sure what to expect on that afternoon in 2017 when he sat down to tape a 13-minute YouTube video revealing his deepest insecurity to the world. Born with a congenital birth defect that had left him with a short left arm and only two fingers on his left hand, Ruden, 30, had spent years hiding his hand in a glove while building a career as a powerlifter. Suddenly he was forcing himself to do the one thing that had terrified him all his life. “Even my [then] girlfriend had never seen my hand,” recalls Ruden, whose video soon went viral. “It was the scariest thing I’ve ever done. But sometimes you’ve got to make yourself uncomfortable to truly be comfortable.” Today Ruden is taking what he learned from that uncomfortable—but liberating—moment and using it to inspire others like him. After years of being bullied and finding comfort in alcohol and drugs, Ruden—who was also diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 19—has shattered weightlifting records (he deadlifts 675 lbs.), walked fashion runways and shared his story with audiences around the world. “I’ve broken world records in front of thousands of people, but nothing is better than being able to go into a grocery store without my glove on,” says the motivational speaker and

‘Everyone has the potential to improve their quality of life’ —CHRIS RUDEN

entrepreneur, who writes Finding Strength “I’ve always been about his journey in his new driven, partly because inspirational book The Upper of my disability,” says Hand. “There’s nothing like Ruden (in 2019, training for a powerlifting being able to walk around and competition). not be terrified of hiding.” Growing up in Fort Lauderdale, Ruden, whose parents are both nurses, was raised to believe he was no different than the other kids. But all that changed in sixth grade when he transferred schools. “I started getting made fun of,” he recalls. “It was a constant reminder that I was broken.” In the hopes of prePassing It On venting his classmates from “You teach best catching a glimpse of his hand, he spent the next what you need to learn most,” four years literally keeping it tucked away in his says Ruden (with pocket all day before eventually hiding it with a a young fan black glove. “I pretended like everything was okay, in 2019). His new book (below) but inside I was dying,” was released on In high school Ruden used drugs and alcohol to May 4. try to cope with his pain. “I went through a really bad phase at the end of high school, beginning into college,” says Ruden. “I hated the feeling of being a circus attraction, which is how I felt then. I tried to drown that out with drugs and alcohol.” In college, he began lifting weights, thinking that building muscle would give him more confidence. But it wasn’t until he became a personal trainer in school and began working with David Heiblum, an 11-yearold boy with cerebral palsy, that something finally Ruden remembers young David telling him one began to shift inside him. “Just because someone day, as the boy talked about why he never let other says something about you doesn’t make it true,” people’s cruel comments bother him. “He obviously had learned way more about life than me.” By then, Ruden had begun winning powerlifting competitions—but he didn’t find the strength to remove his black glove until 2017, after he’d been fitted with a new, state-of-the-art carbon-fiber prosthetic arm. “I promised myself that I would stop hiding my hand if I got this prosthetic arm,” says Ruden. “I couldn’t go back on my word, so I had to jump in the deep end.” The overwhelmingly positive response changed his life. Offers poured in from those who were touched by his heartfelt video, including the Rock’s producers, who invited him to appear on The Titan Games in 2019, and the founder of Runway of Dreams, who asked him to model adaptive clothing in one of their fashion Life Lessons shows that same year. “I love how my story can “I just wanted to drown out the feeling of being that guy everyone stared at,” says Ruden (left) at age 17, wearing potentially help people,” says Ruden. “Everyone his black glove. That all changed when he started has the potential to improve their quality of life— training David Heiblum (above), who has cerebral palsy, even if it’s just improving the internal narrative in 2012. “I fell in love with this kid because he was so driven to not let a label put him down.” most of us tend to struggle with.”

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May 24, 2021

HEART’S NANCY WILSON

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Magic

Silver Linings

“I came to rediscover a lot of things about myself,” Nancy says of her pandemic year. “Before I was in the band, I was an inspired, poetic, romantic little person.”

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Ta l e n t e d Sisters

Ann and Nancy (as young children) loved to put on air guitar shows for their parents.

Tight Family Bonds “The hair got pretty big there for a while,” Nancy (with Ann in 1982) says with a laugh. “Thank God for the ’90s!”

Her Boys

Nancy and her ex Cameron Crowe’s twins Curtis and William were born via surrogate in 2000. “I always knew I wanted to be a mother,” she says. “Meeting them was magical.”

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Embracing the ’80s

Over nearly 50 years on the road with her band Heart, Nancy Wilson grew accustomed to waking up in a new city every day. So as she settles into the couch of her suite at the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood on a sunny day in April, Nancy can’t help but share her excitement about being away from home for the first time since the COVID-19 lockdowns began last year. “When I got off the plane at LAX, I was like, ‘Ahh! So many cars! People!’ ” says the 67-year-old guitar goddess, who was vaccinated earlier this year. “It was surreal after being in our nice little house out in the countryside of Northern California for a year.” She may have been forced to slow down over the Military Moves last year, but the star—who grins as she recounts Nancy and her her hard-rocking past—says she still turned up family—including mom Lois, Ann, the volume. She spent most days jamming in her older sister Lynn home studio, where she recorded her newly reand dad John—lived leased debut solo album, You and Me. “I could sing on various military bases, including in as loud as I wanted to and have fun with music— Taiwan, in the the thing that I’ve done all my life,” says Nancy, ’50s because of whose impeccable guitar skills have bewitched John’s career. fans since she first joined Heart alongside her older sister Ann in 1974. It’s also the first time Nancy—who always deferred to Ann, now 70, as the lead singer of the group—has let her own vocals take center stage. “I was more nervous about driving a car in L.A. yesterday than doing a solo album,” she says. “I think it’s because this is just for me. I don’t have to feel like I’m not a good enough singer next to Ann, who is one of the best there is. I’m not trying to prove anything now except that I’m a musician, and that’s what I was born to be.” In recent years Nancy found happiness with a new love, her husband of nine years, Fox executive Geoff Bywater, and by bonding again with Ann. “I have everything I always wanted,” she says. That quiet confidence was built from years of battling to belong in the male-dominated rock world. During her early days with Heart—one of the only female-fronted bands in the ’70s—she was often asked, “Do you really play guitar?” She recalls answering: “Why, I certainly do, and I started when I was f------ 9 years old.” As kids Nancy and Ann were inspired to start playing music after watching the Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show from their home in Bellevue, Wash., where their family settled in 1960 after years of moving for their father’s military career. In the Unconditional early ’70s Ann joined the Canadian band Love “He’s a warrior White Heart, renamed Heart by 1974, for me,” she and Nancy later dropped out of college to says of Bywater join the group. Heart’s 1975 debut album, (on their 2012 wedding day). Dreamboat Annie, spawned hits like “Mag“We’re equally ic Man” and “Crazy on You.” “We’d call rasupportive dio stations with fake accents—English, of each other.”

Queens of Rock and Roll Ta k i n g O f f

Nancy and Ann joined their Heart bandmates on the wing of a private jet early on in their careers.

“Every five to 10 years we’ve had to reinvent,” says Nancy (with Ann in 1984). “We’ll be like, ‘Are we still cool?’ ”

Russian, French—to request they play our songs,” says Nancy. “We had no shame.” The Wilsons cemented their status as rock stars in 1977 with the Heart hit “Barracuda.” But as the ’80s rolled in, sexism toward the sisters took on a new life, and their commercial success stalled. “It was a harder time to feel taken seriously because of the objectiﬁcation in the videos and the corsets and the stilettos,” Nancy says. “It was the ego-driven style of the cocaine era that we were in, which was not quite as hippie as where we had come from.” While Nancy readily admits there were quite a few late nights of raucous partying—“You’re not a real rock star unless there’s a few times like that,” she quips—she and the band never missed a show. Their dedication paid off, and by 1985 Heart had made a successful comeback with its self-titled No. 1 album. “Ann and I were military brats and really professionally

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Always Evolving

Sweet Reunion

Nancy and Ann performed together for the first time in three years at the 2019 “Love Rocks” benefit show in N.Y.C.

minded about showing up on time and being present,” Nancy says. “There’s no excuse for people to be lame toward their audience.”

‘I’ve reconnected with my former self. I was Pollyanna— hopeful and innocent’

Ann and Nancy on a private jet.

Sisters Through Thick & Thin Through a lifetime of playing music together, Nancy and Ann have weathered their ups and downs—but they’ve always been able to move forward. After Ann’s husband pleaded guilty to assaulting Nancy’s twin sons in 2016, the sisters were able to heal and play their 2019 Love Alive tour together. “The tour was really so amazing,” Nancy says. “I could see that the Heart fans really loved the big spectacle aspects of the show—even if Ann didn’t love the bubble machine I had requested. But most of all we saw how much the Heart fans loved the Heart sisters reunited.”

Nancy held steadfast to that mindset years later as

she went through a public divorce in 2010 from her first husband, Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe, after 24 years of marriage. Their twin sons Curtis and William were then 10. “It was really a sad time because I didn’t know how to get through it,” says Nancy. “Backstage at one show some fan guy came up to me like, ‘Hey, I heard you’re getting a divorce. Do you want to marry me?’ Stuff like that hits you hard when you’re not ready, but you just got to soldier on.” In 2016 a fissure formed in her relationship with Ann after Ann’s husband, Dean Wetter, assaulted Nancy’s then-16-year-old sons during a Heart show after the boys reportedly left a tour bus door open. (Wetter pleaded guilty to two nonfelony assault charges.) “Heart was stalled out for about three years in order to regain our balance,” says Nancy. “But ‘blood is thicker than water’ has always rung true with me.” In 2019 Nancy performed with her sister for the first time since the incident at a benefit show in New York City: “When I saw Ann at soundcheck, I made a point to walk right up and give her a great big hug. Our natural closeness kicked right in again like clockwork.” After all the ups and downs, Wilson is grateful that life brought her to Bywater, whom she met through her manager and reconnected with in 2011. They wed the next year, and “between his kids and mine, we’re like the Brady Bunch,” Nancy says of Bywater, who has four children with his ex-wife. “It’s a healthy, full-blooded relationship. He’s my protector, and that helps me in the world.” With Bywater by her side, Nancy feels more invigorated than ever. Heart plans to head back on tour next year, and a biopic about the Wilson sisters is in the works. “I’m excited!” Nancy says of her jam-packed future. “But in the meantime I want to walk on a beach, get my hands in dirt and just keep being creative.”

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May 24, 2021

S P E C I A L’S RYAN O’CONNELL

‘It’s My Abilities That Define Me’

Ryan O’Connell has cerebral palsy and created a TV show about a guy named Ryan with cerebral palsy. But that’s the least remarkable thing about him. The 34-year-old is gay, sober and a self-described “fashion bitch” with a filthy mouth and a wicked sense of humor. So, yes, the star of Netflix’s Special—based loosely on O’Connell’s 2015 memoir—is special. “Just not an after-school special!” he insists. “It’s my abilities that define me.” The author and TV writer was born with a mild form of CP, the most common childhood motor disorder. It affects the right side of his body, and he walks with a limp. He had several surgeries as a child—four, he thinks—and an early passion for TV. “I was this totally insane 4-year-old gay person, who was enamored with [Beverly Hills, 90210’s] Kelly Taylor and her long blonde hair and teenage high jinks,” he says. “I remember being like, ‘I want to do that. I want to write for TV and film.’ ” His parents, Karen and Dennis, divorced when he was 10, and he remembers being “left to my own devices, which, for a type A Virgo, is actually really okay. No one told me I couldn’t do anything.” He laughs. “Well, besides, like, using a broom.” He was

May 24, 2021

THE WRITER AND NETFLIX S TA R I S S H O W I N G T H E W O R L D HIS LIFE—WHICH HAPPENS TO I N C LU D E C E R E B R A L PA L SY By J A S O N S H E E L E R

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Breaking Through

“Hollywood has made leaps and bounds with representation of race and gender and sexual identity. But disabilities remain the last frontier,” says O’Connell (with Special costar Punam Patel).

popular in high school, and his Ventura County, Calif., house became the place to hang out: “My parents always supported me in whatever I wanted to do, which I guess can’t be underestimated. Having confidence as a gay disabled person, that took some balls. There was no model for it on television for sure.” Ableism, he says, is “everywhere. It goes into this idea about physical perfection, whatever that may be, and into spaces not being accessible. It goes into watching a movie where it’s seen as victorious for someone to be able to walk.”

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In the D r i v e r ’s S e a t

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Left: O’Connell at age 2. Right: In his backyard in L.A. with boyfriend Jonathan ParksRamage, 37.

By graduation, O’Connell says, his confidence was merely posturing. “Inside, I hated myself. I found myself to be unlovable. I’ve kind of always felt my existence is too fringe or strange for anyone to understand. That I’m not valued in the same way as a straight white male. Writing was a safe place for me to work out my feelings and make more sense of the world around me.” He went to college at the New School in New York City, then was hired by Thought Catalog, a digital magazine centered on youth culture. He developed a problem with drugs that waxed and waned over the years, but he says he quit cold turkey in June 2020. “I’m better without it,” he adds. Publishing his memoir I’m Special, and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves in 2015 led him to L.A. and jobs writing for TV shows like Awkward and Will & Grace. He also met his boyfriend, author Jonathan Parks-Ramage, on Twitter that year. Soon O’Connell wrote the first script for Special in a coffee shop, inspired by his view of a billboard for the show Kevin Can Wait. “I was thinking about shows about people who were born into a world that was specifically made for them,” he says—and he decided to make a different kind of comedy series. Eventually, after “every network” passed, Netflix green-lit Special (season 2 premieres May 20). It’s a prominent platform from which to advocate, but he struggles with that part. “I didn’t ask for my very existence as a gay disabled person to

‘Lives like mine deserve to be explored’ —RYAN O’CONNELL

be ‘political,’ but I’m political the second I open my mouth, because I walk around with conﬁdence,” he says. “But before I even open my mouth, I’m considered ‘brave.’ It’s condescending. It’s like, ‘I’m brave to just exist?’ What choice do I have?” But O’Connell—whose forthcoming second book, a novel, has already been optioned into a movie in which he’ll star—isn’t ready to be deemed an activist. “It makes me feel insecure,” he says with a chuckle. “Like, I’m watching Below Deck. Do you really need me? I just try to stick to my lane, television, which can be really powerful. If you harness the medium of storytelling correctly, it creates empathy. That’s what I try to do.”

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How His Life Inspired Hit Shows

Awkward

O’Connell wrote for the MTV comedy in 2015. “A character based on me was written into season 5. I auditioned for ‘me’ and lost to Jonathan Bennett from Mean Girls,” he says, laughing.

Will & Grace

“I got to work with people who were at the top of their game,” O’Connell says of his time on the 2017 reboot. “The Ben Platt character [right] was loosely based on me.”

The Baby-Sitters Club

He wrote an episode of the Netflix series about Stacey (far left), who has diabetes and wears an insulin pump, “which was huge because I do identify as a disabled fashion bitch!” May 24, 2021

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“I had so many great memories hosting that show,” says Crystal of emceeing the Academy Awards (in 2012) nine times.

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He’s starred in some of Hollywood’s most beloved films, is an Oscar host extraordinaire and has won a Tony for a one-man play based on his life—but Billy Crystal says his favorite performances were as a kid, when he was making his family laugh. “My two older brothers and I used to put on shows in my grandmother’s living room,” he recalls. “We had an act together—the Crystal May 24, 2021

Chase what makes you light up inside. I was recently in the makeup chair for a movie I did called Standing Up, Falling Down. They’re putting makeup on my face, and I tell you, the smell of the makeup and the feel of it was exactly how it was when I was doing my ﬁrst play in third grade. The teachers would put makeup on you, and then you’d run to peel back the curtain to see where your parents were sitting. That

Fa m i l y J o y

Crystal with wife Janice (left), daughters Jennifer (far left) and Lindsay (right), his sons-inlaw and grandsons in 2019 after making his hand- and footprints outside the TCL Chinese Theater in L. A.

excitement has never left me. I have so many more ideas for things I want to do and write. For the best laughs, start with the facts. Some of the funniest parts of films come from truth. When Harry Met Sally . . . started with a conversation between Nora [Ephron] and Rob Reiner. She said men and women can’t be friends because the sex always gets in the way, and he goes, “That’s not true.” It ended up becoming a really terrific film. In Here Today, Charlie [an aspiring writer] says to my character, “You’re a writer. How did you know you wanted to be one?” I said, “You just are one. You take the truth, and you make it more interesting.” I think that’s what comedians and good writers do.

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Boys. When you’re the youngest and the shortest, you become the loudest. If my brothers were really funny, I had to outdo them. I always ended up closing [the show].” Now 73, the actor and comedian is thrilled to still be doing what he loves after nearly five decades in the business. Next up he’s starring with Tiffany Haddish in Here Today, about a veteran TV writer who forms a friendship with a New York singer. “I’ve been working a long time,” he says of the film, which he cowrote and directed. “And I feel as excited about it today as I ever did.” The New York native got his start on the 1977 sitcom Soap and was a cast member on Saturday Night Live for one season in the mid-’80s. But he became a movie star in 1989 after starring opposite Meg Ryan in the classic comedy When Harry Met Sally . . . . The following year he earned rave reviews for his first turn hosting the Oscars. By his side throughout all of it? His wife, Janice, whom he met when he was 18. “I can’t imagine being married to anybody else, ever,” he says. “I’ve been lucky.” Today the couple’s biggest joy comes from spending time with their two daughters and four grandchildren. “It’s been a wonderful journey, with so much more to go,” he says. Here, Crystal shares what he’s learned about fame, family and being funny.

Crystal’s Most Beloved Roles Soap (1977)

Crystal (with Richard Mulligan) got his big break on the ABC comedy playing Jodie Dallas, one of the first gay characters in a sitcom.

High School Plays

Crystal (middle) acting in a high school play in Long Beach, N.Y., in 1965.

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The Princess Bride (1987)

“People go, ‘Have fun storming the castle!’ when they see me,” Crystal (with Carol Kane) says of his famous line.

When Harry Met Sally . . . (1989)

“All these years later, people are still watching it,” the actor (with Meg Ryan) says of the comedy.

They tell a real story, and then they put their paintbrushes and paint colors into it, and it becomes something else. Parenting is similar to gardening. Fatherhood is like if you planted these little saplings of trees in a garden and then you keep watering them over the years and keep pruning them and cutting them back and making them fuller. Then they grow into these beautiful, big flowering trees. That’s who my kids are to me. It’s the joy of my life to watch them become beautiful women raising incredible families. Janice and I will just look at each other and say, “We did good. We did really good.” Being a grandpa is one of life’s great roles. The good thing about being a grandparent is that you can love the kids up and then hand them back and go to an early movie. I love teaching my grandkids about our family’s past and their place in this wonderful existence that we have. Just being present for them—especially during this past horrible year as I watched my grandchildren, who are 18, 15, 11 and 8, thrive and do homeschooling on Zoom, which is so difficult—just being here for them means everything to me. Fame gets better with age. When I ﬁrst started getting recognized, it was a little uncomfortable. I was doing Soap and was pretty much the ﬁrst homosexual character on a recurring basis in a series. So some people were not kind at the time. But over the years fame is something you get used to. Today I often get

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Their 50-Year Love Story “I fell in love at 18, and in many ways I’m more in love now,” says Crystal of his wife, Janice, whom he married in 1970. “What starts as a crush and ‘Will she ever talk to me?’ now is like, ‘Will she ever stop talking to me?’ ” jokes the comedian. The couple celebrated their wedding anniversary last June with a virtual party because of the pandemic. “We had our 50th on Zoom with people all across the country,” he says. “That was special.”

‘I’ve been performing since I was 3. I can’t imagine doing anything else’

recognized for City Slickers or When Harry Met Sally . . . . Occasionally a real ﬁlm nerd will come up to me and whisper in my ear, “My name is Marty,” which is from Spinal Tap, which I had one line in. As long as they remember something and something hit them, I’m so grateful. A little encouragement goes a long way. My mom was really funny and our biggest cheerleader. My dad had a music store on 42nd Street called the Commodore Record Shop. They encouraged us to follow our dreams. My brothers are hilarious, and we’re intensely close, and we still love making each other laugh. I can’t imagine doing anything else. I look back on my life and go, “Well, maybe I could have . . .” But no, it was always this. It’s almost like there was no choice.

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Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Crystal will reprise his role as “the little one-eyed green guy,” Mike Wazowski, in Monsters at Work on Disney+, out July 2.

City Slickers (1991)

Crystal kept his horse, Beechnut, from the film: “He was one of my best friends.”

H e r e To d a y ( 2 0 2 1 )

Crystal teams up with Tiffany Haddish: “What surprised me most was her range—and her trust in me.” May 24, 2021

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Willie “Timmy” Donald and Nicky Jackson (in Munster, Ind.) became friends in 2016 after his release from prison. Now they work together helping other exonerees. Says Donald: “She kept on opening doors.”

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For Willie “Timmy” Donald, Feb. 27, 1992, was just an ordinary Thursday. Then 23, he spent a carefree afternoon with his older sister and her fiancé, tagging along as they went car shopping at multiple dealerships in the suburbs around their Gary, Ind., hometown. Meanwhile in Gary, a robbery spree was underway. A man with a gun was attacking six different families in their homes, demanding cash and fatally shooting one of his victims when he tried to resist. The attacks occurred in Donald’s neighborhood, but he didn’t even know they’d happened until five days later, when police appeared at his door. Two witnesses had selected Donald’s photo— erroneously in the system after he was a passenger in a car mistakenly reported stolen—and then identified him as the gunman in a lineup. Though his sister and her fiancé would later testify Donald was car shopping with them when the crimes occurred—and no physical or forensic evidence connected him to the attacks—Donald was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and armed robbery. “It was like I was in a Twilight Zone; they’re saying you committed a crime you know nothing about,” says Donald, who had no prior criminal record. “It was a nightmare.” Photographs by G E O F F E R Y S T E L L F O X

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A FUTURE LOST

“Everything was taken from me,” says Donald (in 1989, at work as a store clerk).

MISIDENTIFICATION

In 1992 two of six witnesses picked Donald (fourth from left) out of a lineup, despite describing acne scars on the killer’s face. “I just couldn’t believe it,” says Donald, who had no scars and no criminal record.

A Life Stolen 24 years behind bars for someone else’s crime

HOPE & DETERMINATION

After years of denied appeals, Donald wrote dozens of letters to innocenceproject groups, asking for help. “I fought and fought,” he says. “I never gave up.”

HARSH SENTENCE

“They took my brother’s life,” says sister Sheila Hopkins. “It was painful.” (Below: a state prison where Donald served five years of his sentence.)

And one that he would endure for the next 24 years. Convicted on all counts, Donald was sentenced to 60 years in prison. It wasn’t until Jan. 25, 2016, after witnesses revealed reservations about Donald being the perpetrator and irregularities in the case were uncovered, that a judge vacated Donald’s conviction. Days later the Lake County State’s Attorney dismissed the charges, and Donald was released. When Donald finally got the news, “I dropped the phone,” he says. “I couldn’t believe it. I started crying.” But despite his initial joy, Donald soon discovered he was living a whole different nightmare: He had no money and very few job prospects after decades of life behind bars. “What happens to exonerees like me is you get punished twice for something you didn’t do,” says Donald, now 52. “I am still being punished.” It’s a reality he is determined to change, with the help of friend Nicky Jackson, an associate criminal-justice —WILLIE professor at Purdue University DONALD Northwest in Hammond, Ind. Appalled by his case, Jackson introduced herself to Donald soon after his release. Together they want to make sure other wrongly convicted individuals aren’t forgotten by the system that stole part of their lives. Beginning in 2016 and spanning two years’ time, Jackson met with Indiana state legislators, including Rep. Greg Steuerwald, who authored new legislation to compensate exonerees for the years they spent in prison (see box). And in 2020 Jackson launched the Willie T. Donald Exoneration Advisory Coalition to connect Donald and others like him with the resources they need to get their lives back on track. “This is about righting a wrong,” says Jackson, 57, who says she’s in awe of Donald’s “integrity, graciousness and forgiveness.” As for Donald, “It feels good to have somebody by your side through tough times like this,” he says. “She’s my guardian angel.”

‘I CAN’T GET THOSE 24 YEARS BACK. I TRY TO PUSH FORWARD EVERY DAY’

F I N A L LY F R E E

Donald (with his mother, Lillie, after his 2016 release) missed out on family milestones and time with his loved ones. “It destroyed a family,” says brother-in-law Dan Hopkins.

the only boy in the family, Donald had wanted to become a welder, like his uncle. He wanted to get married, to start a family. “All those dreams were crushed,” he says. “And I missed the passing of my dad and wasn’t able to attend the funeral.” His sister Sheila Hopkins, 59, still cries recalling how she had wanted Donald to walk her down the aisle at her 1996 wedding. “It still hurts,” she says. In 2006 the Medill Innocence Project at

(WORKING, GETTING OUT) COURTESY TIMMY DONALD: (IN PRISON) CHRISTOPHER SMITH/THE TIMES OF NORTHWEST INDIANA

Growing up the second youngest of five kids and

FOREVER FRIENDS

Meeting Donald “changed the trajectory of my life,” says Jackson (with him at a local diner March 23). “So many great things happened because of our friendship.”

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Northwestern University took on Donald’s case after all his appeals were exhausted. Their yearslong investigation found that Lavelle Thompson, 18, who bore the facial scars witnesses said were prominent on the killer (Donald has no scars), actually committed the crimes; he was murdered soon after the robberies. It also uncovered that a

Fighting for Exonerees’ Rights Nicky Jackson (far left, with Willie Donald) started the Willie T. Donald Exoneration Advisory Coalition to help the wrongly convicted postrelease and secure compensation for them for the years they were imprisoned. Indiana now gives exonerees $50,000 for each year they were wrongly incarcerated and is one of 36 states that have such laws on the books. “We want exonerees to have a chance for a better life,” says Donald. “That’s what we are trying to accomplish.”

witness had told police in 1992 she wasn’t sure Donald was the robber because he was bigger and taller than the man she saw. But a detective “convinced me I had picked the right guy,” she said in a statement. “After reviewing the case—and the court records support this—Mr. Donald did not commit this crime,” says Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter. “They just had the wrong person.” Donald admits he still finds his return to the free world challenging. “Being locked up was a culture shock,” he says. “Being free is another.” Though he earned two college degrees while incarcerated—in biblical studies and business management—he’s had trouble finding jobs and is currently working as a janitor. Like those of other exonerees, his convictions remain on his record until he can pay an attorney to have them expunged. And he says he’s constantly looking over his shoulder, afraid of being wrongly accused again. “When I go to a filling station or a store, I stand right in front of the [surveillance] camera,” Donald says. “I am scared the police will try to come get me again.” In 2017 he filed a lawsuit against one of the detectives in his case and the city of Gary. He has until this November to file for compensation from the state, which would total $1.2 million. (If compensated, he must drop the suit.) Donald and Jackson have continued what she calls “an amazing friendship,” often meeting up for coffee to share the latest in their lives. “When I have a bad day, I talk to him about it,” says Jackson. “He can actually calm me down more so than most people. Our friendship is something I cherish.” For his part, Donald, who lives with his sister Sheila and her husband, is glad Jackson has given him the chance to help others. “I just can’t live my life being bitter,” Donald says. “I’m appreciative to be free. Life can be snatched away in an instant. . . . Never take it for granted.”

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1. Letters in the yellow neon “beer” sign, back wall, are swapped. 2. The neon light for the word “on” in that sign is now green. 3. Frost, left, is no longer holding a phone. 4. There are now two lamps on the bar table in the back. 5. The lighting sconce on the brick wall, back center, has moved up. 6. The orange door and its frame, back wall, are taller. 7. The symbol on the side of the Flash’s mask is blue. 8. The poster on the wall, far right, is gone. 9. The bolt on the Flash’s chest is now on his sleeve. 10. The backpack worn by the character in the foreground—Allegra (actor Kayla Compton)—is now yellow.

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Last moment of self-care With two kids under the age of 4, I find slivers of time. I jump on my spin bike for 20 minutes, blast some rock music in my earphones, then if I’m a little sweaty for the next Zoom meeting, I put a hat on. Last time I heard ‘I love you’ This morning, with my kiddos over breakfast. My daughter is 3½, and her vocabulary is growing. Her latest thing is she sits down in front of me and says, “Let’s talk about it.” Last road trip My friend and I drove around Bavaria in Germany to go paragliding over Neuschwanstein Castle, the one the Disney castle is modeled after. When I got hooked up in tandem to my guide, he just yelled in my ear, “Run,” and we ran to the end of the cliff, and I was paragliding! Last time I won something One of my husband’s friends claimed to be the champion of rock, paper, scissors, so I said, “Whoever loses pays for our dinner.” I won, and needless to say, I had a nice steak. Last time I felt nostalgic I found a picture of the Empire State Building when it turned orange for the last season of Orange Is the New Black. I grew up in New Jersey, so to see it lit up made me feel that New York really is where dreams are made.