Larry Birkhead

It was just to be in the presence of someone that that's.

But I kept finding myself in these weird situations.

Like I would be sent from one job to the next and I was kind of on a roll.

And it did a lot for my self-confidence because I wasn't really a big, I wasn't always confident about myself.

And I was this always like the lanky kid in school that was like, you know, like stuffing my shirts with like fake muscles or something or a double layer in the clothes.

So for, to me, it was like, you know, it did a lot for me, you know, myself and my confidence for all that.

But I-

I just kept moving into something else.

I remember like one time I was out in L.A.

and I don't know how this happened, but I was covering there was a reporter that canceled for a major news organization and I did the red carpet for them.

And I was backstage when Halle Berry won her award for the best actress or whatever.

And it's weird because she came, I guess she did some press in a different area that I wasn't at.

She came back off the stage and she ran off the stage and I was like happy for her.

I'd never met her in my life.

And I opened my arms and like she was like, oh my God.

And like she hugged me and then it was like a good probably 10 seconds and she started going like this.

But after that, I went on and I continued to do the Derby Beat every year.

And that's when in 2000 and... I'd say 2002, it started getting really crazy.

There were a lot of crazy celebrity happenings.

There was a time when Pam Anderson came.