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>> chaz, i think you're an amazingly courageous man. >> thank you. >> i think you're an amazingly courageous woman. >> thank you. >> and i think you've been an amazing stepmother. and the whole story i find uplifting. the fact that you're now happy and you're happy makes me happy and makes everybody happy. and if you're not happy you're a cynic and you don't deserve happiness. thank you for joining me and good luck with it all. i want to be at the wedding with my cameras recording every moment, live on cnn. fair enough? >> we've got a deal. >> get her down the aisle, chaz. that's what guys hav...

>> but you got back on to the alcohol. why was that? >> i can't blame it solely on chaz's transition. my sobriety has been a struggle for years. it has been an off and on thing. when he told me he was going to do this i used it as a pass for myself which only an alcoholic can do. >> when you saw jennifer fall off the wagon, did it worry you that the stress of everything you put her through was now coming out in alcohol? >> actually, no. what it made me was angry really. and it was different because i think in the past i would have been, you know -- and she had in the past fallen off the wagon ...

And chaz works with children as young as 3 and 4 that just feel that they're in the wrong body, and she does counseling, you know -- he does counseling. so it's a very difficult thing. >> even your mother's not quite sure if you're a he or a she, chaz. that's an uncomfortable moment. >> for her, look, it's ingrained. it's 40 years of saying "she." so it takes a little time to get out of that habit. >> be brutally honest. >> okay. >> your mom, from all i've read, wasn't happy about the fact that you were a lesbian to start with, till your father sonny reacted better to that. >> mm-hmm. >> that'...

So now you're up to date. i'm don lemon at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. thank you so much for watching. i'll tell you back here tomorrow night at 6:00, 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern. make sure you have have a good saturday night. see you later. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com transformation like no other. chastity bono, a little girl who grew up on tv, now a man called chaz. >> i don't have memories till later in life. till at least like 4 or 5, 6. i don't remember anything from my early childhood. >> tonight he's here to tell us extraordinary story. >> probably because i didn'...

That was it. >> that must make you feel good. >> it does. >> hey, chaz. that's cool. >> exactly. >> we'll take a break. when we come back we'll come to somebody else who's cool which is your girlfriend who stood by you throughout all this. >> mm-hmm. >> who is as brave as you. >> she is. ♪ [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work, building up our wireless network all across america. we're adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we're cov...