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So our next guest stars on the hit show, Younger.
He's got a new poetry book.
It's called, All Of It Is You.
It's erotic poetry apparently.
(audience gasps) Oh yes.
Please welcome, for the first time on our show,
Nico Tortorella. (audience cheers)
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Hi.
Hi.
Good to meet you. You too.
You look beautiful. So do you.
Thank you.
Woo!
This is a dream come true Wendy.
Really? A dream come true.
Yes, I've been wanting to come here for so long.
Aww, thank you.
Can I give you some Shoe Cam
if you put your feet down? Yes, get that Shoe Cam.
And model, here we go.
There we go. (laughs)
Just a little something, a sensible boot for the winter.
Wow, you're hairy and tatted.
Oh yeah, it's all here. (audience hoots)
One more for ya.
Just let it breathe. (audience cheering)
So, congratulations on the success of Younger.
Thank you.
Which is a show everyone loves.
Yeah, it's been great.
Yeah. (audience cheering)
Six seasons so far.
And I understand you guys are genuiniely
friends behind the scenes.
Family really.
You spend that much time with a cast.
It's just this bond.
Yeah.
Yeah. Alright, let's talk about
the tattoos.
Okay, so many.
So you play a tattoo artist on the show.
I play a tattoo artist on Younger.
I'm on a tattoo show now with Snooky on MTV.
Tattoos are everywhere in my life.
Okay. I'm covered.
How many do you think you have?
That is an interesting question.
I say not enough but too many all at the same time.
You are really hairy.
I am. (audience laughing)
And that's about half mast too.
You've got to just keep it a little trim.
Any regrets?
With tattoos? Yeah.
When I was younger, I didn't spend enough time
probably looking for the right artist
but no regrets.
My body's a journal in one way or another.
Aren't all of our bodies, right?
(audience cheering)
So Nico definitely makes his red carpet statement.
Let's talk about your style.
Let's do it.
Oh now.
Wow.
It's political y'all.
It is political.
Do you style it yourself?
I do, that is all me.
All of it.
Gender is a really interesting thing.
I think as a human race,
one of the most foolish things that we've ever done
is split the world into only two categories.
Man and woman.
I think the space between really needs to be explored.
So you've been married since March.
We've been together 12 years.
Twelve years, yeah.
(audience clapping)
We dated a lot of people in those 12 years.
A lot of other people.
Is she in the business?
Bethany is not in the industry.
Bethany is like a fitness celebrity.
Mmm. Yeah.
Well, that's your wedding.
That is our wedding.
Was anyone there?
Nope, not a single person.
I love it.
Yeah, matching gowns, matching crowns.
(laughs)
We invited our mothers and then uninvited them.
Oh. Last minute
because we just didn't want to deal with anybody else.
We wanted the day to be ours.
Your wedding is supposed to be about you
and the person you're getting married to.
Sing it sister. Right?
And we didn't want to have to--
(audience clapping) We didn't want to have to
think about anybody else.
And take me through this,
and we're going to listen to you very carefully.
Yes.
Nico
is not in a traditional relationship.
There is nothing traditional about what's going on here.
Okay. Pretty much.
Besides what I look like.
Okay.
Okay yes. Okay yeah, educate us.
Bethany and I, we both identify as non-binary
which means we don't feel we are a man or a woman.
We live in the space between.
We are both queer.
We're in a polyamorous relationship
which means we date other people
and trust communication and love
are the most important things.
(audience clapping)
If I love my partner as much as I say that I do
and Bethany wants to go out and have fun with somebody else,
why would I deny them of that?
So you date men and women?
Well, I don't really know what men and women really are
but I date the entire spectrum of people
Oh, and how about Bethany?
(mumbles)
Bethany dates predominantly women.
Okay. Yes, yes.
So you're from a big Italian family--
We're just going to transition real quick right there.
In Chicago.
No, because I want to know, how'd your family react?
Oh yeah, it hasn't been easy.
It's almost more difficult.
So I've had a handful of coming outs in this career, right?
I started talking about sexual fluidity a few years ago
and I really took my own education
pretty public and serious.
I had a podcast, The Love Bomb, on for a couple episodes
where I really dove deep into the entire community.
We have LGBTQIAPK+
as of now.
The acronym is getting larger every single day.
Come on.
So how do the families feel though?
It's almost more difficult telling your family
that you're polyamorous than you are anything else.
Yeah, gay, bisexual, non-binary, trans.
It's one thing that there's
zero representation.
There's zero visibility
outside of polygamy and really Islam.
But it's a type of relationship
that's existed since the beginning of time, pre-bible.
You've got cute ears.
(audience clapping)
I'm listenin', I'm listenin'.
So at one point Nico was engaged to Lindsey Lohan.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You're on bended knee. I see a ring.
(laughs)
What happened? Yes, Lindsay
is a dear, dear, dear friend of mine.
I was actually just in Mykonos shooting.
Lindsay has a new show on MTV.
I am on a couple episodes.
We were just shooting in Mykonos this past summer.
Ya know.
But I heard the story was,
you left Chicago to be a star in Hollywood.
Yes. And you had two dreams,
you wanted to be a star
and you wanted to meet and marry Lindsay Lohan.
Fact.
Come on, The Parent Trap was everything growing up.
I mean she was the ultimate.
How did you meet her?
To be real, I get a phone call one day,
right after I was in Scream 4.
A couple months after that came out,
I get a phone call and it's like, "Hey, it's Lindsay."
I was like, "Lindsay who?"
"Lindsay Lohan."
I was like, "Shut up, who is this."
Thinking it was one of my friends.
No, it was actually her.
She got my number from,
you know the industry's weird like that,
you can find people.
Yeah.
And I went over to her house that night.
Were there other people there?
Oh yeah, she was having a party.
It wasn't just--
Now at that point in your life,
were there drugs involved?
Huh,
yeah.
I mean, I am an alcoholic.
Recovering.
I'm four years sober from alcohol.
(audience clapping) Good for you.
Thank you, thank you.
Alcoholism leads to lots of drugs as well.
I'm not totally sober.
There's a fluidity to a lot of things in my life,
including my sobriety.
AA teaches you that it has to be all or nothing
but we have to know that there are other
ways to navigate addiction.
I understand.
I still use cannabis
and psychoactives here and there.
What is a psychoactive?
Psychedelics.
(audience gasps)
Natural plant medicines,
ayahuasca,
magic
fungus.
(audience laughing)
This is for spiritual practice ya'll,
for spiritual practice.
I understand.
Plant medicine.
I understand.
Look, I've been down that road before.
Hey now.
And I'm very, very recovered
but it's always a slippery slope.
Always, every single day.
Okay, the poetry book.
Yes.
Speaking of plant medicine.
Who designed the cover?
Mostly me.
It was a collaboration with me and the editors
but a lot of that stuff is inspired
by different tattoos that I have.
This is actually my astrology chart that's on the front.
Oh.
That's my hand.
Alright, it's erotic poetry.
Well, I don't know.
I mean if it's erotic poetry,
when I heard you say that backstage,
I was, okay (mumbles).
Well it must be.
Everything in my life--
Stomach.
That's not erotic at all that one.
If you want to go to penis or vagina.
(audience yells)
Wendy.
I adore you.
This is daytime television.
(audience clapping) I adore you.
Nico Tortorella everybody.
Know it.
His new book, All Of It Is You, is now available.
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