Amy Schumer has gone to some great lengths to get out of plans — including using her dad’s multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis as an excuse.
“I was starting to date this comedian. I don’t know if he still does comedy, but this is 20 years ago,” Schumer, 43, explained during her “Call Her Daddy” podcast appearance on Wednesday, January 22. “We were supposed to work a weekend together at this club, in the middle of nowhere. The way he like kissed me, it was like soap opera. He had a real moment with me, slow. I was like, ‘I want to go home.’”
Schumer “pretended” like she was sick that night.
“In the morning, I texted my mom at like 5 a.m,” she continued. “I was like, ‘In an hour, call me and tell me that dad’s in the hospital.’ I’m laying next to this guy, my mom — who is a real gangster — calls me, goes, ‘Your dad’s in the hospital,’ and the guy’s still sleeping.”
The comedian was “trying to cry” after getting the call. “I think that’s the biggest lie,” she added.
“My dad lives on. He will not die,” Schumer joked. “He is very much with us. He did tell me the other day what he wants done with his ashes. … What he said was, ‘I just want to be with you.’ I’m like, I don’t think I can commit to eternity with my dad right now.”
During the podcast episode, Schumer — who is married to chef Chris Fischer, with whom she shares 5-year-old son Gene — spoke candidly about her relationship with her parents, especially in her youth.
“I had major trauma and stuff when I was 12, which I’m totally happy to talk about,” she said. “My dad got MS, and we went bankrupt. We had money. We were comfortable. And then, we were poor.”
Schumer said that the change in her family’s financial status happened “overnight,” and it caused them to move around a lot.
“We went from living in, what I would consider a mansion, by Real Housewives standards. Not decorated well or anything, but a big house with a pool and whatever, to a maybe two-bedroom, tiny home,” she recalled. “We moved every year, and we would live in someone’s basement or someone’s attic. That kind of stuff.”
Schumer said elsewhere in the episode that her mom had an affair with her close friend’s dad. They were only together for two months.
“My parents got a divorce, and my mom started dating my friend’s father,” she said. “It was a whole nightmare. And I really was traumatized and didn’t think I was traumatized.”
