Keith Morrison

But every day I laugh.

And again, maybe it's an age issue too, but the only person I have to make happy is me.

And man, is that liberating.

For a while, though, Nancy also tried her hand at making other people laugh on stage.

Any divorced people here?

That's right, she did a bit of stand-up comedy.

Yeah, it was good for me, too.

Events that some people might find too painful to talk about became the raw material for Nancy's act.

Divorce, like probably most of you, didn't go the way I'd hoped it would go.

On stage, Nancy was in her element.

She told me she loved performing, but late night sets in comedy clubs are not exactly compatible with having a day job.

At my advanced age, I have discovered that going to work at 7 o'clock in the morning, which means I have to get up at 5.45 every morning to get there at 7, and then work a full day and then going to a comedy club at 10 o'clock at night to do a set.

No, no thank you.

There was a time, shortly after the trial ended, when Nancy felt compelled to tell everybody she met about the time her husband and his girlfriend tried to have her killed.

Partly to control the narrative, to tell it on her terms, and partly to make herself feel safe.

Now that time has passed, I don't...

feel the need to share like that.

Occasionally I'll tell the story because it's a funny story.

It's a crazy story, not funny maybe, but it's an insane tale to tell.

But I don't feel like I have to do it, whereas before it was almost a compulsion.