Mickey Rooney the famous actor meets an angel in a restaurant in Lake Tahoe, California.
This is the transcript of the interview with Mickey Rooney by the host of her show, Sally Jessy Raphael:
Mickey Rooney meets an angel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY2wifHpK6I
Transcript
[Applause]
Sally Jesse Raphael: “We are back with Mickey Rooney, All right
it's important since we started it, if
you would to tell us you were in a
coffee shop or something?”
Mickey Rooney: “ Yes up in Lake
Tahoe and I was very depressed, down. One
of the down periods of our lives you
know. If anybody says that you know you
don't everybody in the world
unfortunately goes through two things
depression and loneliness.
Everybody gets lonely no one escapes it.
Anyway I'm depressed and I'm there
having my breakfast in the morning
with one of my buddies and is
about nine people at the table and it is
so boisterous and and the noise is a
cacophony of everybody talking and it's
like 7:30 in the morning and, and
everybody's being served in somebody's...
and they're all talking at the table. No
one's talking to each other and nobody's
listening. And a certain young gentleman
came up over to the table, the table, he was a
busboy he had a white coat, his hair
Sally Jessy Raphael was absolutely
gossamer. It was gossamer. You've never
seen anything like this in your life. It
was like gold, was a hue and he leaned
over the table directly to me and I
thought all the other people saw him too
and he said are you Mickey Rooney and I
thought maybe I was being called for a
telephone call or something you know,
you're wanted on the phone.
And I said yes I am Mickey Rooney and he
leaned in and he said Jesus Christ loves
you very much and he knows what you're
going through
and now I, I'm in shock
and I turned to Joey Foreman is sitting
right to my right here and I said Joey,
Joey did you hear this?
He said hear what? I said what this
young fella just told me. He said what young
fella? Are you, what's that, you, huh? are you all
right? I said yeah, I said you saw him
Sid. Sid Gould was with,... said Sydney, I
didn't see him
I didn't see him. No one saw him. So after we
left the table I went up to the maitre'ess
who was sitting everybody down and
(audience laughter)
well that's another way of saying Maitre D'
but it was a lady so I said have you
got a busboy here with this golden hair
and so on so it's outside she said no
there's no such boy here you can look
around anywhere you want Mr. Rooney and
I said well I'd be very happy to. I went
into the kitchen, I went into where they
were washing dishes I went all over the
place and I went upstairs in my room
still not understanding and I said I
don't understand, I don't understand and
at that time right out on my balcony was
the same boy again
and I opened the French Venetian door he
said, “You looked for me that's all I
wanted”
[Applause]
Needless to say my life changed after
that traumatic...”
Sally: “ That's why in in your
mind you are able to do the seven
decades, the movies then, the movies now and
all those people have gone and you've
seen all this history of show business.”
Mickey: “I'm more than a survivors yeah yeah yeah
it's more than I survived. If anything
I'm a Reviver, a Reviver I-I-I I'm...
so people wondered see,
see “but how can you
have all this energy?”
how can you?”
Sally: “Well let me just say
something, this man was the ping-pong
champion of California for five years
[Applause] , end of video section on youtube.