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Busy Philipps

Busy Philipps

American actress

Sep 15, 2026

speaker_9UNKNOWN
9:08
To the Nikki, to my Molly, Busy, I love you.
9:11
I mean, the irony was not lost on either one of us that she was winning this award for the story of a woman dying of cancer who's, who was with her best friend, and here I was, like, with this possible cancer diagnosis of my own.
9:25
I was watching at home with Birdie.
9:28
I just cried.
9:30
I love her so much.
9:31
[laughs]
Emily Curl
Emily CurlCORRESPONDENT
9:40
She's also making a style statement at New York Fashion Week.
9:43
I'm wearing a custom parchment paper dress made, um, from If You Care parchment paper because honestly, I use this in my own home to cook on, and we thought, "Wouldn't it be fun if we make a dress out of it?" The best part is that, like, when I'm done with it, you know, it's biodegradable.
24:26
[laughs]
24:27
So Bir- but Birdie, like, shows me these things.
24:29
Okay, so, like- ... fast videos of, like, "Guys, I haven't cleaned my car in two and a half years, so this is what I decided to do." Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
24:38
And then they show you, and it's, like, disgusting, disgusting, disgusting.
24:41
And this one video that Birdie showed me, it was, like, a three part cleaning car TikTok, and the woman had, like, two kids that were in car seats.
24:52
Like, it was disgusting.
24:54
It was so gross.

12 MINS LATER

37:19
... is his avatar? [laughs]
1:32
posts.
1:35
Bertie and I just had this conversation about it.
1:37
She turns 18 this year, and she was talking about making her account public.
1:43
And I was like, well, that's a conversation that we can have in a little bit.
1:49
But also, yeah, you're going to be 18.
1:51
If that's what you want to do, you can do it.
1:55
She's very savvy, though, and aware of all of...

18 MINS LATER

20:09
that's also the thing is that like there's you don't know your blind spots until they hit you in the face so there may be something 20 years from now where they're like why didn't you tell me and you're like i didn't realize this thing
17:52
What was that transformation? What did knowing what you were struggling with do to change the way that you looked at yourself and the world?
18:00
Well, I mean, first of all, I was able to get treatment and figure out the best methods for myself.
18:06
So, you know, I use a medication called Calvary that's a non-stimulant once a day medication.
18:13
But also there are different like coping mechanisms and also just being able to have the language behind it.
18:20
I think a lot of times, I mean, we know because of medical bias, right, that women are sort of less likely to be diagnosed with ADHD because it presents differently than what we've heard ADHD, the symptoms to be.
18:34
You know, hyperactivity, running around in circles, and that was never my experience.
18:37
I wasn't, while I have a lot of energy and have certainly lived up to my name, I was sort of like internalizing so much of my disorganization and not being able to keep things straight.
19:15
But I want to know how this diagnosis has changed the way you approach the craft of acting.

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