{"id":18158,"date":"2021-10-15T03:21:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T08:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=18158"},"modified":"2021-10-15T14:16:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:16:55","slug":"interview-with-heather-locklear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/15\/interview-with-heather-locklear\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Heather Locklear"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>TV Interview!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18159\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/panelpic2-1024x488.png\" alt=\"Panelists for the movie &quot;Don't Sweat the Small Stuff&quot; on Lifetime\" width=\"529\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/panelpic2-1024x488.png 1024w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/panelpic2-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/panelpic2-768x366.png 768w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/panelpic2.png 1403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong> Interview with actor Heather Locklear, executive produers Meghan McCain and Maura Dunbar, and author Kristine Carlson of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story&#8221; on Lifetime by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/13\/biosuzanne\/\">Suzanne<\/a> 9\/14\/21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was a fun panel. These women clearly enjoyed the story they were producing and became great friends. I was very happy to speak to Heather Locklear, who is about my same age (as it turns out). I used to watch her all the time on &#8220;TJ Hooker&#8221; and &#8220;Dynasty,&#8221; and then later on &#8220;Spin City,&#8221; and of course, &#8220;Melrose Place.&#8221; She&#8217;s very good in this movie, too. I&#8217;m glad to see her doing more acting. She had some personal and legal problems in 2018, but it sounds like she&#8217;s cleaned up her act. That&#8217;s great because we all missed her. She seems so nice in this interview, and I just love that chair she&#8217;s sitting in. It was such a great group of people. It&#8217;s the first time that I ever saw a star stop the panel from ending so that she could tell everyone how much she loves them! That was very sweet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t forget to watch &#8220;Don&#8217;t Sweat the Small Stuff&#8221; this Saturday, October 16 on Lifetime!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18161 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/locklearcarlson.jpg\" alt=\"Heather Locklear and Kristine Carlson\" width=\"207\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/locklearcarlson.jpg 354w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/locklearcarlson-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR:\u00a0 Hi, everybody.\u00a0 Our last panel today is \u201cDon\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story.\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019re pleased to welcome and have with us today Heather Locklear, and I think she\u2019ll be on camera in just a minute, who stars in the movie, author Kristine Carlson, and executive producers Meghan McCain and Maura Dunbar.\u00a0 Thank you all for joining us, and I think we\u2019re just going to give Heather just one more second to get on camera and then we will get started.\u00a0 Just a reminder to anyone who\u2019d like to ask a question, use the raise your hand button at the bottom of your screen.\u00a0 If you have the newer version of Zoom it\u2019s by hitting the reactions button, and if you have the older Zoom version use the participants\u2019 button, so that\u2019s just how you can raise your hand.\u00a0 Just give us one more second and we will get started, so thank you so much.\u00a0 While we wait for Heather to get on camera I\u2019m going to start with a question I just received for Maura.\u00a0 Maura, it seems like \u201cDon\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff\u201d has been a passion project of yours for years in the making.\u00a0 Can you briefly share with the audience your personal story behind making this movie a reality?<\/p>\n<p>MAURA DUNBAR:\u00a0 Thank you so much for that question, yes.\u00a0 This project, this little book \u201cDon\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff\u201d has been a 21-year passion project of mine.\u00a0 It started because, sadly, 27 years ago I lost four immediate family members in my life, and Richard\u2019s book came out about six or seven years after that, and I found that book, and the book, even though it\u2019s about not sweating the small stuff, and I was enveloped by the darkness of loss and grief, the little pinpoints of light that Richard so beautifully distills in his books about not sweating the small stuff in everyday living became the little footholds that I was able to grab onto, and as you started to string those little pieces of light together, when you\u2019re so overwhelmed and you can\u2019t see your way through, those little lights became beams of light, became rays of light that began to light up the room where I began to find my way through, and when you\u2019re so lost and you find that pathway it became the pathway to healing for me.\u00a0 And so I had the privilege of, when I left ABC as a network executive after sixteen years, of being introduced to Richard by his publisher, and I drove up.\u00a0 I flew up and met Richard, Dr. Carlson, and Kris and had the pleasure of spending a weekend up there and getting to know them and got the rights, and it\u2019s been an honor and a privilege, and it\u2019s just been a passion of mine for the last 21 years to be a steward of Richard\u2019s in getting this story out there, and Kris has been amazing and in indulging me for forever coming back to her, knocking on her door and saying, \u201cI\u2019ve got another chance, I\u2019ve got another chance.\u201d\u00a0 And now with the incredible support of Tanya Lopez and Lifetime, who was my first agent, by the way, when I sold it for the very first time twenty years ago at ABC as a half hour.\u00a0 So thanks to Tanya Lopez and my producing partner Mark Teitelbaum on the project, who\u2019s not with us, and to Meghan McCain.\u00a0 So thank you.\u00a0 It has been an amazing journey.\u00a0 I cried the first day of filming.\u00a0 And to Heather Locklear who has just done, I want to say, the most unbelievable, breathtaking job taking on the role of Kris Carlson and has been one of the most amazing professionals I\u2019ve ever working with in the business under sweltering heat conditions that I\u2019ve never seen anyone be so unflappable on a set with such a great sense of humor.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s her best work to date.\u00a0 So thank you for the question.\u00a0 It\u2019s been the most important movie I\u2019ve made in my 37-year career.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR:\u00a0 Thank you so much, Maura.\u00a0 And welcome, Heather.<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 Hi.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR:\u00a0 And the next question is from Jay Bobbin.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Hello, everyone &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 Hi, Jay.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Hi, Heather.\u00a0 Actually, my question if for Meghan.\u00a0 How did it come to be that you became attached to this material, and maybe this is me watching \u201cThe View,\u201d and bravo on your years there, but are you kind of surprised this is your first TV movie as opposed to something maybe a little more political?<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 It\u2019s funny.\u00a0 This is the only &#8212; the second thing I\u2019ve ever executive produced, and the last one was a very serious political documentary, so it\u2019s I\u2019m delighted to be doing something that everyone in my life will want to consume because, obviously, politics is incredibly divisive, and this is something that is meant to be, you know, feel good and it\u2019s going to bring people together.\u00a0 I had read \u201cDon\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff\u201d at different incarnations in my life.\u00a0 I read it when I was much younger when my mother had read it when it first was released, and I told Kristine and Maura when I first met them it was a book that my mother had on her nightstand in her bedroom growing up, and I can remember just the very distinctive title and it always being sort of like something I remembered, and then after my dad died I went on Amazon and just looked up books that were good for grief, and the book came up again, books for good &#8212; the good books about in moments of crisis in your life.\u00a0 And then my agent had come to me saying Lifetime was possibly interested in partnering with me on projects, and I said it would have to be something that would be organic and something that I would have to be authentically passionate about, otherwise, it wouldn\u2019t work.\u00a0 And when Maura came to me with \u201cDon\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff\u201d I felt like it was incredibly serendipitous, because I had started rereading again for some of its meaningful and evergreen messages during COVID, and I just was so excited at the idea of this medium being turned into a film because, again, I have a lot of friends who are incredibly busy and they don\u2019t have time to read all the time.\u00a0 Sometimes they don\u2019t have the bandwidth, and I just think Kristine\u2019s story and Richard\u2019s story is something that so many people can relate to, especially post COVID during this time of such pain and loss.\u00a0 And I\u2019m just really proud of it, and I\u2019m really excited to be doing something that everyone I know and everyone I respect has been excited about and will be excited to watch.\u00a0 And this is a movie that you\u2019ll be able to watch thirty years from now and fifty years from now and sixty years from now.\u00a0 I really believe this is going to be one of those movies that\u2019s going to stay in our lexicon just like the book has.\u00a0 So it\u2019s really just a privilege to be working with these incredible women and to be a part of this project, and I\u2019m really delighted, and I just am so excited for its release coming out soon, and it\u2019s around my birthday, and I just &#8212; I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 It\u2019s just been &#8212; This whole experience has been wonderful and I\u2019m really, really honored to be a part of it.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR:\u00a0 Thank you, Jay.\u00a0 We thank you, Meghan.\u00a0 The next question is from Suzanne.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Hi.\u00a0 My question is for Heather.\u00a0 Did you meet Kristine before the filming of the movie and talk to her to get an idea about your character at all?<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I did meet her.\u00a0 I flew up on a coach flight, just saying, to meet her, and she picked me up and was a little late but, yeah, I went up, and I spent the night, and we spent a night with our friends, both of our friends that happened to know each other, which is all synchronicity.\u00a0 And I had read the book before, and I had talked to her a lot saying I can\u2019t get through your book right away, because it\u2019s making me cry.\u00a0 It\u2019s giving me &#8212; which happens every time I talk about it.\u00a0 Anyway, so, meeting her was such a joy and such a light in my life, and I can\u2019t imagine what she was and is in everyone else\u2019s light &#8212; life, but meeting her, and I went to dinner, and she talked about all kinds of stuff and showed me Richard\u2019s jacket that was in her office that stayed there since he passed &#8212; that\u2019s fifteen years, by the way &#8212; and told me different stories and told me stuff that I was afraid of, to do, to play, and how, you know, what happened.\u00a0 And then I got to have coffee with her in the morning in her bed, and I felt like this must have been what Richard and Kris together.\u00a0 They sat there with their coffee.\u00a0 They meditated right here, and it felt so unique and so special and on a different level than I am on.\u00a0 I would like to be her level, but I\u2019m not quite there, or their level.\u00a0 And it was so, so special, so special that she\u2019s coming out for my 60<sup>th<\/sup> birthday to stay with me, yay.\u00a0 What more can I say?\u00a0 Oh, I can say something else that has nothing to do with that question.\u00a0 So my mom says today that Meghan is her favorite person.\u00a0 She\u2019s watched her.\u00a0 Yeah, and but she actually happens to love your husband.<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 Then she is hardcore, she loves my husband &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 She\u2019s hardcore.\u00a0 She\u2019s definitely.\u00a0 She\u2019s so hardcore that I have to stop her and go: \u201cEnough, don\u2019t sweat the small stuff; don\u2019t sweat the small stuff.\u201d\u00a0 But she\u2019s in love with your husband and thinks you\u2019re fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 And that\u2019s all I wanted to tell you and let you know that.<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 Tell her, please, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 Oh, trust me.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR: \u00a0Thank you, Suzanne.\u00a0 Thank you, Heather.\u00a0 The next question is from Jamie Ruby.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Hi.\u00a0 Thanks for talking to me.\u00a0 Heather, obviously, you\u2019ve been acting for quite a long time now, but is there anything that you still find challenging when you do a project like this?<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 Oh, no.\u00a0 The challenging part was it was so fearful to me, and it was the second to the last day is when I get on the phone, and I find out that Richard has passed.\u00a0 And Kris had told me &#8212; oh, my God.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to die &#8212; she had told me this is what I did, this is what I did, and I said I\u2019m so glad that you\u2019re telling me because I don\u2019t want to ask this question of how it felt or what it did.\u00a0 And she said, \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a child died.\u201d\u00a0 And that stopped me in my tracks, and I\u2019m like I can\u2019t go there.\u00a0 I can\u2019t do it.\u00a0 So it\u2019s always my fear of the whole, like, when is this going to be scheduled that I have to take in when her husband died.\u00a0 And I\u2019ve read her book and what happened and all that.\u00a0 And I\u2019m like, okay, I\u2019ll go back to these pages before I do this, and we talked on the phone the morning of, because they wanted to know certain things, the producers and director wanted to know certain things about what happened and blah, blah, blah, and I go I can get her on the phone right now.\u00a0 And so my fear was I\u2019m not going to where my child passes.\u00a0 I could never do that.\u00a0 So that was my fear and what am I going to go to.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even know what I went to, because it was the spirit of Richard, the spirit of Kris, so that was challenging, and they did it great.\u00a0 They did all kinds of shots and all, and so it felt &#8212; I felt very safe, but that was my biggest fear.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Thank you so much<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR:\u00a0 Thank you both.\u00a0 The next question is from Francine Brokaw.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 There we go.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 I read the book ages ago.\u00a0 It seems like a lifetime ago.\u00a0 But I want to know from the whole panel have you really perfected the art of not sweating the small stuff, because in this crazy world, I mean, it\u2019s hard to just go through life all the time and just be la-la about the really small stuff, but they do affect us.\u00a0 So how do you deal with that?\u00a0 Have you perfected that art?<\/p>\n<p>MAURA DUNBAR:\u00a0 Well, I can say it\u2019s sort of an ongoing process, but it\u2019s having read these books and lived with these books for so long and being dear friends with Kris. \u00a0In fact Kris and I have the same birthday, July 5<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s July 5<sup>th<\/sup> girls, but it\u2019s about being mindful and treasuring the journey, as Kris often says, and just being centered in not getting caught up in those small, little things and being in gratitude for so much, and life is filled with those little joys if you just change your perspective and focus on that, and that\u2019s what being with Richard and being with Kris and reading these books and being with this material for so long has taught me.\u00a0 So I really do try, and it kind of starts to come naturally after a long time, and after 21 years it\u2019s kind of come naturally by now.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Meghan?<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 Oh, my gosh.\u00a0 Well, if you\u2019re asking me if I\u2019m good at don\u2019t sweat the small stuff, not all the time, but I am working on it.\u00a0 And one of the mantras from the book that always helped me is \u201cmake peace with imperfection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 (Inaudible @ 01:50:53).<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 I find myself, yeah, it\u2019s my favorite one, I find myself saying that to my &#8212; in so many &#8212; I have a almost one-year-old daughter, and there\u2019s something about motherhood that you just really have to surrender and make peace with imperfection, and there are so many small pockets of wisdom in the book that I and hundreds of millions of other people find so accessible.\u00a0 And I think all of us, no matter who are you, I think are going through some kind of existential moment in the past two years because of the nature of the crisis that have happened in the world.\u00a0 And I think the best part about \u201cDon\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff\u201d is that it is accessible and it\u2019s not overwhelming for people that want to grow and want to sort of make changes in their life that are more accessible than say, you know, whatever, reading the Dalai Lama.\u00a0 I have given this book to, I have it on my Amazon list, and I have sent it to eight people in the past few months just saying, \u201cThis is a book that will really help you, and it\u2019s not overwhelming, and you can just read ten pages at night before you go to bed, whatever.\u201d\u00a0 And some of my friends, I think, sometimes when things are so popular people just are thinking that maybe it\u2019s not evergreen, and so many of my friends have just been saying how much it\u2019s helped them; how much it\u2019s helping them get through this moment.\u00a0 And I\u2019m trying, but I also find that the book is something you can really just continue reading and dip in and out of.\u00a0 And there\u2019s other incarnations of it like, \u201cDon\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff for Moms,\u201d and, etcetera, and I think that I\u2019m certainly trying, and I think that\u2019s all we can hope for anyone.<\/p>\n<p>KRISTINE CARLSON:\u00a0 I &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 I\u2019ll &#8212; oh, sorry.\u00a0 No, go, Kris.\u00a0 Go, my friend.<\/p>\n<p>KRISTINE CARLSON:\u00a0 Oh, no.\u00a0 Go ahead.\u00a0 You go ahead, Heather.<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 No, you go.<\/p>\n<p>KRISTINE CARLSON:\u00a0 Oh, yeah.\u00a0 I was just going to say that \u201cDon\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff\u201d is really a life philosophy.\u00a0 It\u2019s something that is the way you practice every day, and like Meghan just so beautifully said, it\u2019s the small ways that we practice life that makes the biggest difference in our lives.\u00a0 And what\u2019 happened over the last 25 years of the series is that the book tends to do very well in times of crisis, because people need to get back to the basics and, certainly, what we\u2019ve all been through this last two years shows us that life is very basic, and if you don\u2019t get back to the basics you\u2019re going to get lost in all of the worry and the concerns and the troubles that we see ahead of us.\u00a0 And I also want to say that when you have a real-life crisis happen to you, what you were sweating the day before that crisis happened never gets on your radar again.\u00a0 And, certainly, as you recover from crisis there are small things that get to you at different times.\u00a0 I will never say that I am the one that never sweats the small stuff.\u00a0 That simply is not possible nor true, but like I said, it is a philosophy, and it helps you to focus on what matters most to your heart when you don\u2019t sweat the small stuff.\u00a0 And at the very cornerstone of the philosophy is to be grateful for the small things in life, because life is incredibly precious.<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 Now I\u2019ll speak.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know that it was make peace with imperfection.\u00a0 I thought it was make peace with perfection, but that\u2019s from the script.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 And, you know, they write whatever they write.\u00a0 But I think one of the things that Meghan was talking about is imperfect or perfection that we learn every day.\u00a0 We learn something new, hopefully, if we connect with people.\u00a0 And I would always say on the set, I\u2019m such an a-hole, I would say, now only to Maura &#8212; maybe I would, because she was a little bit uptight; just a little involved &#8212; I would say, \u201cDon\u2019t sweat the small stuff; don\u2019t sweat the small stuff.\u00a0 It\u2019s a movie.\u00a0 The sun will go down.\u00a0 The sun will come up.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be alive or we\u2019ll be dead.\u201d\u00a0 And I used to do that on other things that I worked with that I was in fear of, in front of an audience.\u00a0 I would go, \u201cOkay, the sun\u2019s going to go down.\u00a0 I will be alive when it comes up.\u201d\u00a0 And so being a kind of jerky person, I would say to other people, because they\u2019re going we\u2019re trying to get the lights, I\u2019d go: \u201cDon\u2019t sweat the small stuff.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a movie.\u201d\u00a0 But it\u2019s a beautiful movie and it\u2019s a beautiful story, but I kept trying to say that, and even in my fears of what I was doing: \u201cHeather, you\u2019re going to be okay.\u00a0 Everything\u2019s going to work out.\u00a0 Everything will be okay.\u201d\u00a0 And I actually came into this book I think in the nineties maybe, and I was so busy working &#8212; So I read it.\u00a0 I did read it, and until you\u2019re kind of solid and not busy doing things in your life in a busy world, you don\u2019t really grasp it, but I think in the last year-and-a-half it was easier to grasp, and because we\u2019re all sitting still, and it\u2019s so simplified &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 And like Oprah said that she put it on her night table, I had it in my bathroom.\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 Because that\u2019s where we don\u2019t sweat the small stuff according to my boyfriend.\u00a0 Maura (inaudible).\u00a0 But reading a little bit at a time, because you can only &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 It\u2019s so specific and so good that if we just take the one step that we read that day, it\u2019s almost like reading a Bible verse or something, maybe that\u2019s too much, and you take that into your day and you can learn something, you can remember it, you can\u2019t remember it, you can go back.\u00a0 So that\u2019s all I\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>MAURA DUNBAR:\u00a0 Well, she did help me on set.\u00a0 That\u2019s true.\u00a0 I do tend to sweat the small stuff when I\u2019m working on set, but in my personal life I do try to make peace with imperfection ergo the not sweating the small stuff.\u00a0 But, yes, as a producer, yes, I want everything to be perfect.\u00a0 I admit it.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry.\u00a0 But that\u2019s why we have such a beautiful movie, I believe.<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 Don\u2019t be sorry.\u00a0 You were amazing.\u00a0 You were effing amazing, and you brought the world down.\u00a0 When she would come, the first day of set, I think after we finished the first day, she gave this story about Kris and it\u2019s not about Maura.\u00a0 It\u2019s about Kris and Richard, but it\u2019s about Maura and all of her trying to get this together, and it would bring people to tears, because it was so heartfelt and so real and what she\u2019s worked on and all, and then I have to go: \u201cWait, this is Kris and Richard, because they\u2019re combined lives of Maura,\u201d and it\u2019s all their story together.\u00a0 So it was always a blessing to have you there, my friend.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR:\u00a0 Thank you, Francine.\u00a0 We\u2019re going a tiny bit over.\u00a0 I know we started a tiny bit late.\u00a0 So we\u2019re going to try to squeeze in two last questions.\u00a0 The first person to ask would be Dana and then followed by Steve Gidlow.\u00a0 Dana?<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Hi.\u00a0 My question is for Heather.\u00a0 Why was this the right project for you to return to TV with, and how did it feel to be back?<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 It felt like what I was praying for, and I\u2019m like God-driven, and I was praying for something solid for me that had to do with something spiritually that was important, and that was really what I was praying for, because I didn\u2019t want to do light &#8212; I\u2019ve done lightweight stuff.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want the dumb stuff.\u00a0 Sitcoms are great but unless they\u2019re \u201cVeep\u201d they\u2019re not my kind of sitcoms.\u00a0 And so it\u2019s weird that when you pray for something it comes or it doesn\u2019t come, but it seemed to come.\u00a0 And that was super important to me and spirituality and God, and I don\u2019t know how this happens, but it landed in my lap.\u00a0 And then these two great people showed up, Maura and Mark Teitelbaum, and I was just so &#8212; I felt so blessed, and it was just something special that I go I can do this, and then I had Valerie Bertinelli tell me, because I was scared, and my makeup artist who does her, too, and I said, \u201cI\u2019m scared remembering lines,\u201d and blah, blah, blah, and it came back in seconds.\u00a0 And she said, \u201cHeather, it will, you will, it\u2019s like riding a bike.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s so easy, and it was so easy.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why we\u2019re so fearful of memorizing lines.\u00a0 How about getting the emotion across?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 But that was just it felt really good to hear from someone else fearing the way I feared, and it\u2019s always been important for me to memorize lines.\u00a0 I\u2019m always nervous.\u00a0 But these great people came and then Kris came and Meghan came, and it all fit together.\u00a0 I love that I see women, four women.<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 I think it\u2019s fantastic.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always been a woman\u2019s woman.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always been competitive with men, which does not mean men are bad, but I used to race them and would come in second to one man and four boys.\u00a0 So I\u2019ve always been competitive, and because I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a difference, but then there\u2019s love and there\u2019s opening your arms to sisterhood, and I think Ellen Pressman being our director, was unbelievable about women, right, about women and the softness of her direction, which wasn\u2019t hard and do this and this is important, this scene, or this angle is important.\u00a0 It was incredible, and she came to me with flowers.\u00a0 I\u2019m like what are you doing?\u00a0 And I was in sweats and stuff.\u00a0 I\u2019m like, \u201cOh, you\u2019re being so formal.\u201d\u00a0 But it was just amazing that Maura put together a great bunch of women that can support each other.\u00a0 No bashing on men because we have Mark. Mark\u2019s my (inaudible @ 02:01:49) who I love.<\/p>\n<p>MAURA DUNBAR:\u00a0 He loves women, too.<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 And he apparently does.\u00a0 No, not apparently.\u00a0 No, no, no.\u00a0 He\u2019s very married.\u00a0 But, yeah, so I thought it was an amazing project.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Thank you, Heather.\u00a0 Thank you, Dana.\u00a0 And the last question for today is Steve Gidlow.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Hi.\u00a0 My question\u2019s actually for Kristine.\u00a0 Given you\u2019re collaborators on this, obviously, you\u2019re all cheering about it, how safe did you feel having the story told?\u00a0 And second part is how excited were you that Heather was the one that was going to be telling it?<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 Tell the story of Pepperdine.<\/p>\n<p>KRISTINE CARLSON:\u00a0 Which one?<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>KRISTINE CARLSON:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Oh, well, I will tell that story.\u00a0 So, first of all, I want to say just my heartfelt thanks is really to Maura Dunbar, and to the writer that was hired, Shannon Colleary, because I knew that they had my back on this, and I knew that they were going to share the story with their whole hearts, and that made me feel a lot more comfortable just knowing that.\u00a0 It\u2019s a very vulnerable position to share probably what you could consider the worst of year of your life and the worst year of your children\u2019s lives.\u00a0 And, of course, my kids are grown now.\u00a0 They\u2019re thirty and thirty-two years old, and I have five grandkids now.\u00a0 And so it was very vulnerable for me to bring them into it in such a public way as well.\u00a0 So, I really trusted Maura and trust her, and I trusted Shannon, and I worked very closely with Shannon, and I just knew.\u00a0 I just knew that this was going to be a good thing for people.\u00a0 I knew that, I believe that it\u2019s how we learn is through story, and I believe that it\u2019s part of the hero\u2019s journey is to share your story and to bring home a message of hope and healing to other people.\u00a0 And you can\u2019t really take advice on grief from somebody who hasn\u2019t gone through it.\u00a0 You can\u2019t really understand or people don\u2019t think you understand unless you\u2019ve been through it.\u00a0 So I\u2019m really hoping that story sheds so much hope.\u00a0 And also a pathway for people to follow so that they know they can return to life again and return to joy and that life continues, and you have to learn to continue with grief.\u00a0 So that said, I was absolutely, I mean, truly just &#8212; I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any woman alive that wouldn\u2019t be thrilled to have Heather Locklear play them.<\/p>\n<p>(Laughter.)<\/p>\n<p>KRISTINE CARLSON:\u00a0 I mean, I think she was the &#8212; You know, she\u2019s just, in my mind, I mean, I, of course, was a big fan always.\u00a0 She was at UCLA when I was at Pepperdine.\u00a0 We have all these very weird, common synchronicities that have happened.\u00a0 And she said that she put up this prayer for this project to come by, and we had this really amazing synchronicity where one of her college roommates turned out to be one of Richard\u2019s very first crushes in junior high, and it\u2019s one of her very best friends, and we find out all of these common threads and that really not six degrees of separation, but more like one-and-a-half degrees of separation, and I really felt that this was very divinely orchestrated, and that Heather was picked and hand chosen by my husband Richard to play me in this movie.\u00a0 So it\u2019s been amazing.\u00a0 It\u2019s been an amazing journey to get to know her and to just really fall in love with who she is as a beautiful woman and just a woman with just tremendous heart and empathy.\u00a0 So I\u2019m thrilled.\u00a0 Like I couldn\u2019t have asked for &#8212; But she was everything I had hoped for and more, way more.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Thank you so much.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR:\u00a0 Thank you, Steve.\u00a0 And thank you, Kristine, and special thanks to all of our panelists for \u201cDon\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff.\u201d\u00a0 We really appreciate you sharing your stories today.\u00a0 That concludes Lifetime\u2019s fall movie press day.\u00a0 To all of you &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 Can I just say I love everyone on this panel.\u00a0 I think I look like Jennifer Aniston in this &#8212; I don\u2019t know who that is in the freaking left, I don\u2019t know who, but I feel pretty.\u00a0 But thanks Maura and Meghan and Kris.\u00a0 I\u2019m so grateful to be a part of this and thank you.\u00a0 You all move me.<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Thank you too &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>KRISTINE CARLSON:\u00a0 And then I just have to say really quick that my daughter, when she found out that you were involved was like, oh, my God, she is such a kick ass woman.<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 I\u2019m really just so honored to be a part of this, and everyone is so inspiring.\u00a0 And, Maura, thank you for even thinking of me to begin with and Kristine.\u00a0 And, obviously, Heather, you\u2019re a fucking icon, so it\u2019s incredible to have my name attached to anything you\u2019re attached &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 Meghan your name is attached to my parent so big I\u2019m just &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to have my husband make a video for your mom, which he does, because women over 60 love my mom and my husband.<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 Oh, my gosh.<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 So I\u2019m happy to have him make a video for you, but I\u2019m just very &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 But she loves you, too.\u00a0 She loves you, too.<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 But I just hope &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 And then she went off on your husband.<\/p>\n<p>MEGHAN MCCAIN:\u00a0 Thank you.\u00a0 I hope people &#8212; You know, grief has been a big theme for all of us.\u00a0 It\u2019s been something we\u2019ve all experienced.\u00a0 Maura, when you originally shared your story about the immense amount of grief you went through losing so many family members.\u00a0 Obviously, Kristine and Heather, I know you have as well.\u00a0 And one of my passions in life is helping people get over grief, because I don\u2019t think it\u2019s something that we talk about enough in culture, in anything, in any medium.\u00a0 Americans are very fearful of talking about grief, and this is a very accessible, kind story that has a philosophy, literally, a book and philosophy behind it, and I really think this is going to help and heal people in a time when people really need helping and healing.\u00a0 So that\u2019s why I\u2019m so passionate about this movie as well, and I just think it\u2019s going to be hugely impactful and hugely healing for a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 You are spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>MAURA DUNBAR:\u00a0 (Inaudible) for Meghan.<\/p>\n<p>KRISTINE CARLSON:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 Actually, all three of you are spectacular &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>MAURA DUNBAR:\u00a0 You\u2019re awesome.<\/p>\n<p>KRISTINE CARLSON:\u00a0 As are you, Heather.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR:\u00a0 I concur.\u00a0 And thank you all.\u00a0 Really appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>HEATHER LOCKLEAR:\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>MODERATOR:\u00a0 And thank you to all of our attendees who tuned in today hearing about our entire fall slate, and thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>(Goodbyes.)<\/p>\n<p>MORE INFO:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mylifetime.com\/movies\/dont-sweat-the-small-stuff-the-kristine-carlson-story?gclid=CjwKCAjwzaSLBhBJEiwAJSRokqEgkkbc6MwYZMV9DzCsSt-T9dp3NwGGob6mG9AXJ_O_PoW3sywVPBoCJ2sQAvD_BwE&amp;ef_id=CjwKCAjwzaSLBhBJEiwAJSRokqEgkkbc6MwYZMV9DzCsSt-T9dp3NwGGob6mG9AXJ_O_PoW3sywVPBoCJ2sQAvD_BwE:G:s&amp;s_kwcid=AL!4852!3!551886422547!e!!g!!dont%20sweat%20the%20small%20stuff&amp;cmpid=paidsearch_G_Don%27tSweattheSmallStuff\">Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"show-header\">\n<div class=\"show-header__title\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18172 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dontsweat2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"poster for &quot;Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story&quot; on Lifetime\" width=\"338\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dontsweat2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dontsweat2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dontsweat2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dontsweat2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>Don&#8217;t Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story<\/div>\n<div class=\"show-header__description\">Saturday, October 16 at 8p\/7c<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-component-item-25048f93-2d8c-11ec-9b2b-97c7cf46e954\" class=\"text-component-item body-copy sanitize-html\" role=\"region\">\n<p>Co-authors of <em>The<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling book series,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><u>Don\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff,<\/u><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Kristine Carlson (Locklear)<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and her husband Dr. Richard Carlson (Jason MacDonald) had an amazing life with their two daughters.\u00a0 But when Richard tragically passes away, Kristine is knocked off balance.\u00a0 Comfortable with living in Richard\u2019s shadow, she is now forced to navigate the unchartered territory of becoming a single mom while dealing with pressure to become the new face and voice of the\u00a0<u>Don\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff<\/u>\u00a0brand. \u00a0Looking deep inside herself,\u00a0Kristine comes to understand the true essence of emotional authenticity and not sweating the small stuff, which leads to the resilience and confidence needed to carry on the legacy of the beloved brand.\u00a0<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Selling over 25 million copies, the groundbreaking inspirational book,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><u>Don\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff,<\/u><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>teaches how to put challenges in perspective, reduce stress and anxiety through little daily changes, and guides how to let go of the small things to attain peace of mind in order to achieve goals.<\/p>\n<p><em>Don\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>is produced for Lifetime by The Johnson Production Group and Teitelbaum Artists.\u00a0 Maura Dunbar (<em>The American Bible Challenge, What Should You Do?),<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Mark Teitelbaum (<em>Superior Donuts, The Crazy Ones<\/em>) and Meghan McCain (<em>The View, Moms<\/em>) are executive producers.\u00a0 Ellen S. 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