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ROSS: But was that part of the defense mechanism. ROSS: You can flip that off now with humor?
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ROMAN: I think I probably felt it a little harder than most of them because I was 'the fat kid.' I came in with a thyroid problem, and I got things like, 'Fatty, fatty, 2 x 4, can't get through the kitchen door.' I realize now that even then the enemy had plans to speak death to my spirit. You had to go through rejection and all this isolation, identity crises, all that kind of stuff. That was the day I was dropped in an orphans' home. LULU ROMAN: You think you don't have very many memories of a childhood, but I have vivid memories of September 10, 1950. SCOTT ROSS: Lulu, you grew up in an orphanage, and this was when you were around 4? Is this your first memoriesof an orphanage? ROMAN: That's right because I never got to have a Momma. He certainly didn't love me because He dumped me. I left there very bitter, very angry, thinking that if there was a God. In the middle of that, I found out that I was very much with child. It ended up costing me losing my position on the Hee Haw show for a whole year. ROMAN: I ended up getting busted not once, but twice, for possession of dangerous drugs. ROSS: You were wacked when you were doing the show? ROMAN: I missed it because I was so messed up on drugs. What did that do to you? All of a sudden, the acceptance you'd been looking for. ROSS: The success was almost instantaneous. ROSS (reporting): Then came the audition. She met us in the hall and said, 'Shut your mouth, child. The first person I saw was Carol Burnette. ROMAN: They put me on a big jet plane, and they flew me to Hollywood, CA. ROMAN: I was the gorgeous blonde, of course! (laughs) He said, 'They're going to do this country and western-type show, and they're going to call it Hee Haw.' I said, 'Hee what?' He said, ' Hee Haw, like a donkey.' I said, 'Sure.' He said, 'There's going to be a lot of money.' I said, 'Keep talkin'.' We could do country music in this and do real well.' So they made a list: one gorgeous blonde and one gorgeous brunette one girl next door-type and one boy next door-type one fat, dumb man and one fat, dumb woman. He said, 'One of these days you're going to be a big star, and I'm going to have something to do with it.' I says, 'Keep talking, cowboy.' (laughs) So when they put together the Hee Haw show, there were a couple of fellows from Canada that had seen Laugh-in and thought, 'This could be a good thing. ROMAN: I never really thought about having talent for show biz as much as I thought about someone paying attention to me. ROSS: When did it strike you that you had some real talent for show biz?
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Lulu openly shares the story behind her unique brand of humor. They say that comediennes often come from very painful backgrounds - that they use humor to hide that pain.
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CBN.com Who could forget Lulu Roman of the long-running TV hit Hee Haw ? Yet forgotten is exactly how she felt as an orphan in Dallas, Texas.