Cristela Alonso

to try to be in TV and film.

Then when I moved to L.A., they were like, well, you have a crooked tooth and you're plus size, so I don't know how that's going to work for you.

I'm like, wow, this is really great, you know?

Like, oh, sold, you know, so it became this thing where I was working as an assistant at a travel boutique.

My mom ended up getting sick.

My brother told me that she was on her deathbed and I had to come home, quit my job, went to Texas to see her.

My mom got better.

I showed up and she got better.

And she asked me to stay with her and be her caregiver until she passed away.

And I decided to do that because I had been taught that my job was to take care of my family my entire life.

When my mom passed away, I was stuck in Dallas.

We had moved to Dallas because we moved in with my sister, which is where the premise of my sitcom came.

It came from that time of my life where I was taking care of my mom and helping my sister raise her kids.

My mom died.

I was stuck.

And I needed a job.

And I responded to this Help Wanted ad that needed office help.

And it was at the comedy club in Dallas, the improv.

And I became the office manager.

And I started watching comics.