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Today. you know andy reid then better than most. what is it like to be a player right now heading to the big game with three andy rita as your coach nyc the x factor? >> 's business as usual for andy. he is going to make sure the players are sticking to the scripture. but at the end of the day i recall one of the biggest things is trying to limit distractions. and he is a professional at it. he will have his players ready. >> i want to get your take on what it is like to play for somebody like andy. >> if there's anything that happened in the playoffs recently that explains what time of coach ...

I was so obsessed with him — and he with me, by the way, because he kept taking me back every time i'd go away. and then, he'd call back in a couple of weeks or a couple of days and i'd go back to him. and when i went back to him for the last time, i found it so humiliating that i really said, "you don't deserve to live," to myself. and that's so not in my character. that was so not who i am. you hit rock bottom and then... rock bottom. it was awful. i was swimming in pond scum. and once you broke off, you never saw each other again? that was it? we did a movie after that. oh, you did, didn'...

Thing that sounded decent, and that was rita. i imagine you've lost count of the number of sort of racist encounters that you had in the industry, just not also in terms of the way you were stereotyped as well, right, being puerto rican? tell me a little bit about what that was like. well, i was always an island girl, and at first it seemed just fine. and it began to occur to me that that would limit me quite a bit, because normally those kind of people have accents. and almost always the make—up was dark. and i mean, that went all the way up to west side story. when i... when i said to the ...

The awards that you've won. you've won the egot. that's the... yes. ..emmy, 0scar, grammy, tony. you've won the presidential medal of freedom. presidential medal... oh, i've got a bunch of those. i wonder if you ever think about your legacy,rita. i don't know if you're the sort of person who thinks, "hmm, i wonder what people... "how people might remember me." how you'd like them to remember you? do you ever think about that? i don't think of how i would like people to remember. i never even think about that. i would imagine that in the puerto rican community, particularly, there's an enormous...

I was a prisoner in their hands, and it really worried me because i was one of those kids who was just afraid to say no to anything. i was afraid they'd come up with something i really hated, that i'd be stuck with for the rest of my life. so, it wasn't pleasant. so, i grabbed for the first thing that sounded decent, and that was rita. i imagine you've lost count of the number of sort of racist encounters that you had in the industry, just not also in terms of the way you were stereotyped as well, right, being puerto rican? tell me a little bit about what that was like. well, i was always an i...