Rita Wilson

So everybody was talking, looking, observing, watching.

My mom told me that in her village, if you went to somebody's house, and this was during the war, you were hungry.

And they said, would you like something to eat?

She was instructed to say no, she was fine.

Because she didn't want, her mother didn't want

anybody to say they can't afford food or they're poor or they're, you know, whatever they were gonna say to talk about you.

What a burden.

What a burden to be having to do that, to feel... And I think in my own generation, as we talk about public versus private, I think this privacy thing was something I grew up with that I was like, don't ever talk about anything, anytime, anywhere, because you don't know what's going to happen.

It's going to backfire on you.

That's so fascinating.

Thank you.

What a beautiful and tragic story.

I know.

But the privacy part is so interesting because...

I think my parents and certainly my grandparents are absolutely of that mindset.

And so what I do is so strange.

Exactly.

I think if we were all more open with each other, then we all can see that we're all in the same boat.

Yes.

So can I ask how the experience of being raised in this exceptional family...