David Greene

You've learned a lot.

You've gotten certified.

You share recipes.

You evangelize about it.

Again, once the doors opened.

I mean, you're not doing this like on the street and attacking people.

But why is it important to you to spread the word beyond your own personal experience?

Which sounds horrific as I've read about, I mean, your experience and what other people have gone through.

I think about the question of control.

How much of this kind of obsession, commitment to plant-based is a way that you have found that you can control your health and your life and feel like you do have some semblance of control?

Because so much of life, as I think you've learned yourself, can be unpredictable.

I enjoy my eating, even though I've committed to this.

Can I ask you about that horrific period of 2012 when things sound like they did feel totally out of control?

I mean, you went through a series of really tragic events all compressed into just a few months.

Do you mind reminding us what happened?

I can't even imagine going.

I mean, I lost my mom very suddenly out of the blue.

I mean, I just found out that she had dropped dead.

No, I appreciate that.

I'm sorry for what you've been through overnight.