Ben Stiller

Yeah, I think it's the worst thing that you can go through as a person.

And people have to deal with this.

We have a debilitating stroke where you literally can't really move at all.

But yet, you know, she was in there and she was not able to communicate.

And, I mean, it was very, very tough for everybody.

And...

Especially my mother was such a verbal person, such an incredibly sharp, smart, caustic, funny, sarcastic, and also very, very loving, too.

But she was articulate, and that was so much a part of who she was.

So to have that taken away...

was tough.

I think her true nature was incredibly sweet and loving, too.

And that did come through, and that's what I felt, you know, those last couple years when she was having to deal with that.

And she would laugh at funny stuff.

So that would actually, you know...

was something that we were able to share.

Sometimes Amy would show old SCTV skits, or I'd do a character, whatever.

She really would instantly laugh and smile.

I mean, it was really tough.

I honestly never once thought about it until you just said that.

Yeah.