Vanessa Williams

He would show it to us and, you know, reading at a young age, yeah.

Do you miss him?

I do.

I do.

I miss my mom, too, who just died recently here in London, which was...

You know, unexpected, but, you know, she came to see me doing what I love and what she knew I could do well.

And opening on, you know, here in the West End was my dream.

And she saw that on opening night.

And of course, she went over to Elton during the after party and said, you know, Vanessa needs another song in act two, you know.

And, you know, everyone's like, oh, my gosh, is that the old John?

She didn't care.

That's what she wanted him to know.

She needs a new song in Act Two, and it'll probably happen.

If this show continues, I'm sure I'll get my new song in Act Two.

Thanks to Helen Williams, my mom.

It's I've been thankful that I've been able to have eight shows a week to keep me grounded and, you know, stable and focused.

And I've also taken the opportunity to, you know,

When I'm not there and people that have come to see me and I've been away, it's because I've had to go home to take care of selling her estate, burying her.

We just buried her remains in the end of September.

There's a lot of stuff that you have to do in terms of the...