Rita Wilson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And there was another couple there.
We were on a double date.
And we're all like 23 or something like that, 24.
And this young woman said to me, what does your dad do for a living?
And I knew that she was really wealthy and she had taken over her father.
She was working in the family business.
And I said, oh, my dad's a bartender.
And she goes, why do you say it like that?
Oh, he's just a bartender.
And I said, well, I don't know.
I mean, you guys all have businesses and your families are all, you know, different than mine.
You're very wealthy.
And her father had passed away.
Oh, Rita.
And she said,
She said, I would give anything.
I would give up everything that I have to have my father back here with me.
And it really changed instantly in a minute how I represented my father out in the world because
He was an extraordinary man.
He escaped communist Bulgaria.