Ricki Lake: Life Reset After 9/11

0:00It's April 29th, this is entertainment and celebrity news today, pop culture powered by AI. Ricky Legg just opened up about why she distra-hit daytime talk show right at its peak. The Ricky Legg show ran strong from 1993 to 2004, and she says it easily could have gone another decade. But everything flipped after September 11th, 2001. She chose family and a total life reset over staying in the spotlight. That day hit her hard from her West Village apartment in New York. She watched a plane fly low down the Hudson and slam into the towers, freaking her out completely. With a two-month-old baby and a four-year-old at home, she was in full mama bear mode, feeling like the world might end any second. Up on her building's roof as it all unfolded, she had this massive epiphany, time to bail on New York, her job, and even her marriage. She couldn't just walk away mid-contract, so she planted out over a couple years, wrapping up her deal without renewing. After separating from her husband Rob Sussman in 2003, and finalizing the divorce the

1:02next year, she headed West. She switched gears to producing, like that eye-opening doc on childbirth called the business of being born. Lake Stories shows how one day can rewrite your whole path. She stepped back then, hosted a short-lived show from 2012 to 2000, 13, and kept evolving on her terms.