Close up with Joe Livecchi: WarnerMedia’s Corie Henson Corie Henson is having a hard time finding the words to describe what she was like as a teenager. Back then, she was dealing with a lot of adversity including ... January 20, 2021 Corie Henson is having a hard time finding the words to describe what she was like as a teenager. Back then, she was dealing with a lot of adversity including being a diehard Cubs fan, attending four different high schools and — hardest of all — having a front row seat to watch her mom bravely battle cancer for seven years. She finally finds the words. “I was a pain in the ass,” she says.