-Lady Gaga, welcome back
to "The Tonight Show:
At Home Edition."
I love you. Thank you so much
for honoring your word
and talking to me today.
-Like, I'm so sorry.
[ Laughs ]
-No, no, honestly, we thought
we had a big announcement,
and then, honestly, things --
It's becoming an even
bigger announcement,
and so we had to wait.
-We weren't quite ready yet,
and I really appreciate you
being so nice about it,
and thank you. And I love you.
I love your viewers
and everyone at home watching.
I just wish everybody well.
-We love you all, too,
and it turned out to be
really kind of a fun bit for us
and got a lot of people talking
and getting a lot of people
excited
about what we're about
to discuss tonight.
First of all, how are you doing
besides working hard
on this new, giant project,
and where are you?
-Well, I'm doing great.
Thank you for asking.
I feel very blessed.
I hope you're doing well, too.
-Yep.
-I'm in --
Actually, we're in my office.
We decided to quarantine
in the family office.
So, there's just
a small group of us
that are all
in the office together
just in case we need
to work on anything.
-How many people
did you quarantine with,
and how long have you been
in quarantine?
-There's about six of us.
-Oh, wow. That's a lot.
It's ♪ Getting to know you ♪
-♪ Getting to know all ♪
-[ Laughs ]
-Yeah, it's very --
You know, you just --
You're -- But every day,
we find the time
to just look in each other's
eyes
and go, "I love you. Mean it."
Very closely.
-"I love you. Mean it."
-But you know what?
The truth is we really know
and respect how hard
people are working right now.
I mean, there are so many
healthcare workers
on the front line
responding to COVID-19,
and we've spent a lot of time
learning about it.
We've spent a lot of time,
you know, reading about it,
watching about it, and we always
take moments of gratitude
throughout the day to remind
ourselves that, you know, we --
We have it very good, actually,
and I --
-Yeah.
-I say that with a lot
of respect and gravity.
You know, I was talking
to someone the other day
about, you know, this messaging
of we're all in this together.
And while I think the sentiment
is nice, you know,
I also think that the fight that
I'm in or that you're in, right,
is very different than the fight
of a woman that is in
perhaps an abusive relationship
and has a child and lost her job
and can't feed her kid
and can't feed herself
and also can't get
the help that she needs
because she's in
a violent situation.
You know, there's things that
are going on in the underbelly
not only of this country, but in
countries all over the world.
And I've been really
focusing a lot of my energy
on figuring out how I can help,
because we are --
We all want this to end,
but being in this all together,
that's a tricky statement
because what that woman is in,
I want to honor
that that woman is not
in the same fight that I'm in,
and I want to help her
fight that fight.
-Yeah, you're right.
And you actually really are --
I know you just celebrated
a birthday while quarantining.
So, happy belated birthday.
-Thank you.
I'm 34.
-What was that?
Hey, that's --
I remember it.
I remember it well.
It's a great year.
-I remember telling my friend
Bo, my best friend since I was 5
whom I work with
and live with now also,
I remember when she turned 34,
I said, "You're still
in your early 30s."
And she said,
"No, it's your mid-30s,"
and I said, "No, it's not."
I said, "It's still early 30s."
And then I turned 34,
and I was like,
"It's totally mid-30s."
-[ Laughs ] No, no, no.
-Yeah, it is.
-You're a baby still.
You're a baby.
But I know that you -- You
celebrated a little bit, right?
Your quarantine family
baked you a cake.
But in the midst of that,
you have been on the phone
talking to World
Health Organization
and seeing what you can do
about COVID-19
in the middle
of having a birthday
and mid-celebrations
or anything.
-Well, you know,
birthdays are birthdays.
They come and go.
Global pandemics
don't happen all the time.
-[ Chuckling ]
Yeah, that's true.
-You know, I sort of felt like,
you know, it was really sweet,
everybody, they --
My friend made me a cake,
and everyone gathered for dinner
that night.
But yeah, we've been
on the phone a lot,
and I've been speaking at length
with the World
Health Organization,
and Dr. Tedros called me and
asked me if I would help curate
this special on television
with Global Citizen.
And I learned more about what
they do, which is incredible.
So, there's something called
the COVID-19 Solidarity
Response Fund,
and it's something
that was set up
specifically for the pandemic.
And what they do is, number one,
they get equipment and treatment
to all sorts of medical
healthcare workers.
Number two, they are very,
very focused on getting tests,
and that includes home tests
as well as send-in tests.
Three, they focus on vaccines.
So, there's 10 major
biotech companies
that are working right now
on these vaccines,
and they want to donate
across the board,
because if they trial them all
at the same time,
if one hits, we get it faster,
as opposed to doing
one at a time, then it's slower.
-Oh, interesting.
-And the fourth thing
that they do is they have
just very up-to-date,
credible information on COVID-19
from the best scientists
and doctors in the world.
So, they're a wonderful
organization,
and they work for the U.N.
The W.H.O. is an agency
to the U.N.
So, it's an
international effort.
So, the fundraising that we're
doing is for the world.
-I saw you tweeted
the importance
about being kind right now.
Can you just double down on
that? Because I agree with you.
Kindness is a great --
really great,
something we should
focus on right now.
-You know, I have always
believed in kindness,
and I think that what's so true
about times like now
is that there is financial
currency, right?
But then there's
kindness currency,
and they're both
equally as important.
And I think
there's a lot of people
that are at home right now
that are wondering
how they can help,
and they feel like they can't,
and they don't know how to,
and one of the ways that you can
is to be kind.
And you being kind every day
helps make it better
for all the people
that are scrambling at home
or scrambling
with their families,
because it's not easy for them,
and they don't have the time
to sit around
and think about what
they could be doing to help.
They're trying to figure out
where their next meal's
going to go for their child.
I mean, it really
breaks my heart
that there's so many kids
in this country
that their one meal from public
school -- from public school
was all they were getting,
and now they don't
get that one meal.
So, you know, this is --
This is a catastrophe,
and in a time of catastrophe,
kindness is the most
important thing.
We must be compassionate
to each other.
And I think also self-awareness
while you're being kind
and making sure that you know
what you have and what you don't
and that you take those moments
to have gratitude.
-And it doesn't cost you
anything to be kind.
-Nope, kindness is totally free.
