On Tuesday, September 14, Patti Labelle discussed her friendship with Prince and her recent guest appearance at his Philadelphia Musicology show, in an interview with Kyra Phillips of CNN's "Live From..." Here is the relevant excerpt.

PHILLIPS: Let's talk about Prince. You two have a pretty interesting relationship. Friendship, I guess I could say.

LABELLE: Prince, that's like my -- he could be like a son, like a brother, like a whatever. But he always calls me to his shows, and I did go to his show in Philadelphia. And he pointed to me, and I broke my neck and got on that stage and we went buck wild. I had no clue what song he was singing, but I made up lyrics, and at the end of the show when he saw me he said, "girl, when you sang one line, you blew me away." I don't know what line it was, but we have this thing, this friendship. It's beautiful.

PHILLIPS: Define "buck wild" for me.

LABELLE: Crazy. It's a black thing.

PHILLIPS: I don't know, Patti, I think I can do the buck wild thing.

LABELLE: Yes, you can. But, see, Prince knew he had to take it easy with me because I'm diabetic, and he knows he has to treat me like -- like something precious because I'm not always well, and he didn't know if my blood sugar was high that night or what. But we worked it. I talked to him that night about my diabetic freedom. It's called diabetes freedom. It's, like, when you have diabetes but it doesn't have you so you are able to go up on stage and kick butt, do whatever you can do, and we have this survey of everybody's writing in letters to Diabetesfreedom.com about what diabetes freedom means to you. And it means that can you keep living and you can go on stage with Prince or any of those young kids and kick butt. You can do whatever, you know...


The complete transcript can be viewed at:

http://edition.cnn.com/TR...ol.02.html

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