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>> looks beautiful. >> there you go. >> that was from the documentary "becoming chaz." it's extraordinary. chaz bono is with me now. it is an extraordinary documentary. >> thank you. >> it's an extraordinary story and it centered around the pivotal moment when you decide, i actually want to be a man. >> mm-hmm. >> i'm going to do something about this. tell me about that moment. >> well, it was a long time coming. i think i started to put it together in my early 30s. and then suddenly, i was like, what can i do about this? i'm a public figure. if i transition, the whole world's going to know. i...

That sonny was more tolerant than his mother was. would he have been equally tolerant by this turn of events? >> it's so hard to guess how sonny would have felt about this, you know, any more than anything else after he's been gone for 13 years. it is always hard to second guess him. but my hunch is that he would have been frustrated or scared or worried and all of the fears that you kind of have about this. but eventually he would have come around and done what you do and that is that you love your family. you do your very best to help them through whatever they're going through. i know that ...

And come woman you're an amazingly courageous and supportive stepmother. the whole story i fine very uplifting and the fact that you're now happy and you're happy makes me happy. i think it makes everybody happy. doesn't it? if you're not happy you're a cynic and you don't deserve happiness. thank you for joining me. good luck with it all. i want to be at the wedding with my cameras recording every moment live on cnn. fair enough? have we got a deal? >> we have a deal. >> get her down the aisle, chaz. that's what guys have to do. >> thank you very much. coming up anybody cannon on his infant...

>> when you were with chaz, but you got back onto the alcohol. why was that? >> well, i can't blame it solely on chaz's transition. my sobriety has been a struggle for years. so it's been an off and on thing for me. but i have had periods of time of sobriety, but when he did tell me that he was going to do this, i used it as a pass for myself, which only an alcoholic would do. >> for you, chaz, when you saw jennifer fall off the wagon is bit, did it worry you that perhaps the stress of everything you had put her through was now coming out in alcohol? >> actually, no. what it made me was angry ...

That, you know, that's what's important to me here. chaz and i, i think we learned a long time ago. there was a difference between politically. but when it gets askew, we stop talking politics. it's not worth it when you're in your home. so we just don't do it. and we agree to disagree and love and laugh and that's really cool. >> love conquers all, right, chaz? >> absolutely, it does. and mary is absolutely right. with my dad we let that get in the way. when he passed away, it's like never again. and so mary and i, you know, love each other. we have, you know, and we do. if it gets a little t...