Ben Stiller
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He was actually great about it.
And I was like freaked out a little for a while afterwards.
I was scared, you know, from the experience.
And my dad was so great.
I remember he took me for a drive and he parked the car and he said, look, let's just meditate a little bit.
And like he had me close my eyes and just picture a color.
I think it was like purple or something.
He said, just like think of it as a soothing color.
And I don't know if he had been doing some therapy himself that he had this idea to do this, but he was just actually, you know, really trying to help me kind of, you know,
soothe myself and get over this event.
And as opposed to like a parent who was like, you know, like, never do that again.
And, you know, you're grounded or whatever.
I mean, that's interesting, you know, because that's one of those things you don't think about.
It's just like this visceral gut reaction.
And that's what I did.
And, you know, I guess that does say something about our relationship.