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00:00There was a time, though, that you were afraid of the stage.

00:06How did you work through that?

00:08I was.

00:08I was a kid.

00:12I have a children's book that I dreamt and woke up and wrote it, and I was like, ah, this is a vision.

00:19And so I have a children's book.

00:20It's being illustrated right now by a friend of mine, Stephanie Stevens, a tattoo artist, by the way.

00:26And it talks about that.

00:27And I was five, six years old, and a teacher asked me to Indian dance for the class.

00:40And I said no.

00:41And she still put everyone in a circle around me outside and tried to get them to clap in time to get me to dance.

00:48And I'm like, I'm not doing it.

00:50And I just built that moment.

00:53She didn't do it on purpose.

00:55I don't even remember who she was.

00:57But I got major stage fright.

01:01I was an actor for a long time, and I had to overcome.

01:05I had to take on, like, meditating to keep from nerves causing, you know, redness.

01:13Just red, turning red.

01:16Casting director's like, are you okay?

01:18I'm like, no, I'm fine.

01:19And it was.

01:19I just, nerves was taking over my body.