AE:
I didn't see that on your IMDB bio!
IL: (Laughs) I know! That's what I'm saying! Did you
see Napoleon Dynamite?
AE: Yes.
IL: Do you remember the Latin guy in it?
AE: Pedro?
IL: Yup.
AE: You were married to Pedro?
IL: I was.
AE: He's a folk hero!
IL : It's crazy right? It was years ago, and we still talk. His name is Efren Ramirez. And if you go to his IMDB page and see the picture with him and Paris Hilton—from a year or so ago. He's wearing a necklace and on the necklace is his wedding ring.
We've been separated for about three years. Actually I was married to him, but I got an annulment. But I still stayed with him 5 years after that.
He just took me to Vegas and I just couldn't say no and then afterwards I was like, ‘Holy Shit, what did I do?' and it's not that I didn't love him, but it was a secret! Nobody knew we were married! I had to be home by 11, he dropped me off at home and here I am married.
AE: How old were you?
IL: I was really young. (laughs) This was at least five years ago, but I stayed with him.
AE: Do you still talk?
IL: We still talk but when I moved away and started working on Buffy, I felt that I needed to put him in the world and go live. So we separated and I told him, ‘You need to let me go, because the minute you let me go, you're gonna start working. If you let me go all of these doors will open for you.'
Then he started working, and he got Napoleon Dynamite. And he called me and said,
'Honey, thank you. Thank you telling me to let you go.' Because all of these doors started opening for him and recently he said, ‘Thank you for being so wonderful and for being my friend.' It was really hard for him to let me go, it took him 3 years. He is the best.
But
it's been really hurtful for me over the last couple of years
because every time I was working I would always take him to the
set, I would always introduce him to everybody. Now he goes to
the Oscar parties, he's buddies with Paris Hilton, he's buddies
with everybody and he goes everywhere.
And
I told him, “I don't care if you have a girlfriend, just invite
me once and awhile to some of these things. Let me be, I'll walk
around alone, introduce me to somebody.” But he saw how hard I
was struggling in the last 2 years in the business and never did.
And that was really hurtful to me, because that's what this business
is—helping each other. And I do that for all of my friends in
any way I can, introducing people, because that's how people move
forward in the business—who you know, friendships.
I call him and he'll respond to my calls and he'll talk to him, and he calls me ‘Easter Bunny' still. It has nothing to do with Easter, I don't know how it came about. (laughs). I know he loves me and I'll always love him, and he was an angel to me and really wonderful. But it was really hurtful that he never took me into account for anything knowing how hard I was struggling. But I guess it's okay, you accept people for who they are.
And he met Sandra. One day he came over and I told him about her and everything. They got along great and I thought, Wow, this is really cool. (laughs) They are so similar, their personalities are so similar. I even think they look alike a little bit.
AE: So he's pretty accepting of your new identity, your new life?
IL: Yeah, he knows that I'm just…
People that know me always say that I should write a book. They say, ‘Oh my god. You're life is movie.' Because every couple of years…I can't surprise anyone with anything. I could tell them all, ‘Goodbye, I'm leaving tomorrow for China to live with the monks.' And they wouldn't be surprised.
So that's my story. I'm getting ready to do my film, I'm going to culinary school., I may do a cooking show when I'm done with culinary school. Everything's great now—it's good to be back in LA because I've been in and out. I went to Peru, Christmas day I decided to go to Peru and I left that same day.
AE: How was that?
IL: It was great. I hiked the Amazon, I slept in hammocks in the jungle, fished for piranhas, got attacked my mosquitoes, climbed Machu Picchu on New Year's Day, did a ritual with a Shaman on the Amazon, I did it all. (laughs) And I only had a backpack. Just me, my friend Paula and our backpacks, not knowing where we were going next.
AE: You're a swashbuckler! You have more in common with Kennedy than I thought. Do you go to the Buffy conventions?
IL: I do, I'm only scheduled for one more, next month in Amsterdam And then I'm thinking of going to the Cannes Film Festival, stopping by for a few days.
I'll be doing my first cycle of culinary school, then right after that I'll go to the Cannes Film Festival, go to the convention in Amsterdam, come back and shoot the film, and then two weeks later I go to the second cycle of culinary school.
My
friends always tell me, ‘You always go after what you can't have.
You like a challenge.' And I guess I do.
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