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  • -Lady Gaga, welcome back

  • to "The Tonight Show: At Home Edition."

  • I love you. Thank you so much

  • for honoring your word and talking to me today.

  • -Like, I'm so sorry. [ Laughs ]

  • -No, no, honestly, we thought we had a big announcement,

  • and then, honestly, things --

  • It's becoming an even bigger announcement,

  • and so we had to wait.

  • -We weren't quite ready yet,

  • and I really appreciate you being so nice about it,

  • and thank you. And I love you.

  • I love your viewers and everyone at home watching.

  • I just wish everybody well. -We love you all, too,

  • and it turned out to be really kind of a fun bit for us

  • and got a lot of people talking

  • and getting a lot of people excited

  • about what we're about to discuss tonight.

  • First of all, how are you doing

  • besides working hard on this new, giant project,

  • and where are you?

  • -Well, I'm doing great.

  • Thank you for asking. I feel very blessed.

  • I hope you're doing well, too.

  • -Yep.

  • -I'm in --

  • Actually, we're in my office.

  • We decided to quarantine in the family office.

  • So, there's just a small group of us

  • that are all in the office together

  • just in case we need to work on anything.

  • -How many people did you quarantine with,

  • and how long have you been in quarantine?

  • -There's about six of us.

  • -Oh, wow. That's a lot.

  • It's ♪ Getting to know you

  • -♪ Getting to know all

  • -[ Laughs ] -Yeah, it's very --

  • You know, you just --

  • You're -- But every day, we find the time

  • to just look in each other's eyes

  • and go, "I love you. Mean it."

  • Very closely. -"I love you. Mean it."

  • -But you know what? The truth is we really know

  • and respect how hard people are working right now.

  • I mean, there are so many healthcare workers

  • on the front line responding to COVID-19,

  • and we've spent a lot of time learning about it.

  • We've spent a lot of time, you know, reading about it,

  • watching about it, and we always take moments of gratitude

  • throughout the day to remind ourselves that, you know, we --

  • We have it very good, actually,

  • and I -- -Yeah.

  • -I say that with a lot of respect and gravity.

  • You know, I was talking to someone the other day

  • about, you know, this messaging of we're all in this together.

  • And while I think the sentiment is nice, you know,

  • I also think that the fight that I'm in or that you're in, right,

  • is very different than the fight

  • of a woman that is in perhaps an abusive relationship

  • and has a child and lost her job

  • and can't feed her kid and can't feed herself

  • and also can't get the help that she needs

  • because she's in a violent situation.

  • You know, there's things that are going on in the underbelly

  • not only of this country, but in countries all over the world.

  • And I've been really focusing a lot of my energy

  • on figuring out how I can help, because we are --

  • We all want this to end,

  • but being in this all together, that's a tricky statement

  • because what that woman is in, I want to honor

  • that that woman is not in the same fight that I'm in,

  • and I want to help her fight that fight.

  • -Yeah, you're right. And you actually really are --

  • I know you just celebrated a birthday while quarantining.

  • So, happy belated birthday.

  • -Thank you.

  • I'm 34.

  • -What was that?

  • Hey, that's --

  • I remember it. I remember it well.

  • It's a great year.

  • -I remember telling my friend Bo, my best friend since I was 5

  • whom I work with and live with now also,

  • I remember when she turned 34,

  • I said, "You're still in your early 30s."

  • And she said, "No, it's your mid-30s,"

  • and I said, "No, it's not."

  • I said, "It's still early 30s." And then I turned 34,

  • and I was like, "It's totally mid-30s."

  • -[ Laughs ] No, no, no.

  • -Yeah, it is.

  • -You're a baby still. You're a baby.

  • But I know that you -- You celebrated a little bit, right?

  • Your quarantine family baked you a cake.

  • But in the midst of that, you have been on the phone

  • talking to World Health Organization

  • and seeing what you can do about COVID-19

  • in the middle of having a birthday

  • and mid-celebrations or anything.

  • -Well, you know, birthdays are birthdays.

  • They come and go.

  • Global pandemics don't happen all the time.

  • -[ Chuckling ] Yeah, that's true.

  • -You know, I sort of felt like, you know, it was really sweet,

  • everybody, they -- My friend made me a cake,

  • and everyone gathered for dinner that night.

  • But yeah, we've been on the phone a lot,

  • and I've been speaking at length

  • with the World Health Organization,

  • and Dr. Tedros called me and asked me if I would help curate

  • this special on television with Global Citizen.

  • And I learned more about what they do, which is incredible.

  • So, there's something called

  • the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund,

  • and it's something that was set up

  • specifically for the pandemic.

  • And what they do is, number one, they get equipment and treatment

  • to all sorts of medical healthcare workers.

  • Number two, they are very, very focused on getting tests,

  • and that includes home tests as well as send-in tests.

  • Three, they focus on vaccines.

  • So, there's 10 major biotech companies

  • that are working right now on these vaccines,

  • and they want to donate across the board,

  • because if they trial them all at the same time,

  • if one hits, we get it faster,

  • as opposed to doing one at a time, then it's slower.

  • -Oh, interesting. -And the fourth thing

  • that they do is they have just very up-to-date,

  • credible information on COVID-19

  • from the best scientists and doctors in the world.

  • So, they're a wonderful organization,

  • and they work for the U.N.

  • The W.H.O. is an agency to the U.N.

  • So, it's an international effort.

  • So, the fundraising that we're doing is for the world.

  • -I saw you tweeted the importance

  • about being kind right now.

  • Can you just double down on that? Because I agree with you.

  • Kindness is a great -- really great,

  • something we should focus on right now.

  • -You know, I have always believed in kindness,

  • and I think that what's so true about times like now

  • is that there is financial currency, right?

  • But then there's kindness currency,

  • and they're both equally as important.

  • And I think there's a lot of people

  • that are at home right now

  • that are wondering how they can help,

  • and they feel like they can't, and they don't know how to,

  • and one of the ways that you can is to be kind.

  • And you being kind every day helps make it better

  • for all the people that are scrambling at home

  • or scrambling with their families,

  • because it's not easy for them,

  • and they don't have the time to sit around

  • and think about what they could be doing to help.

  • They're trying to figure out

  • where their next meal's going to go for their child.

  • I mean, it really breaks my heart

  • that there's so many kids in this country

  • that their one meal from public school -- from public school

  • was all they were getting,

  • and now they don't get that one meal.

  • So, you know, this is --

  • This is a catastrophe, and in a time of catastrophe,

  • kindness is the most important thing.

  • We must be compassionate to each other.

  • And I think also self-awareness while you're being kind

  • and making sure that you know what you have and what you don't

  • and that you take those moments to have gratitude.

  • -And it doesn't cost you anything to be kind.

  • -Nope, kindness is totally free.

-Lady Gaga, welcome back

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