

Related: Amy Schumer Says Being Away from Son Gene for 65 Tour Dates Is 'Brutal': 'I Just Miss Him'Įverett's real-life family see her having her own HBO show as a sign of success.
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Sam is more willing to - maybe reluctantly - try to understand why she's feeling things and dealing with her grief and learning how to love people."

"I usually just repress everything and make jokes just like a lot of Midwesterners do, at least the ones in my family. "Sam is willing to get under the hood a little bit more than I am," Everett says. Offscreen, Everett's oldest sister Brinton died in 2008 of cancer, the year after her dad died. In the show, now in its second season, Everett plays Sam, a woman navigating life in her Kansas hometown following the death of her sister. "I'm more comfortable relating to something that can reverberate through me from experience," Everett says.
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Now, Everett has an HBO series of her own, Somebody Somewhere, inspired by her own life. Since leaving the restaurant business, Everett has starred in Patti Cake$, Fun Mom Dinner and HBO series Camping opposite Jennifer Garner. Never miss a story - sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. I was like, 'Oh my God, Richard Simmons is here.' To be in the same building with him was a real treat." He was in the shorts, he walked up the stairs, he took his time, he was waving to people, and I was the only one old enough to really appreciate who he was. "But when Richard Simmons walked in, he stopped traffic. Diddy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Woody Allen, you name it," Everett says. We would have all kinds of celebrities from J.Lo, P. "When it first opened, it was a real hotspot. She'll never forget the celebrity who caused the biggest uproar when she worked at Ruby Foo's on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the neighborhood she also calls home. RELATED VIDEO: Amy Schumer Explains Why She Let Go Her Doula, Penn Badgley's Wife, While Recovering Postpartum "That really helped solidify that taking a chance on myself was the exact right thing to do." "I got a 10-minute standing ovation," she remembers. That night, the crowd at her Joe's Pub show (which Patti LuPone and Bette Midler have previously attended!) in N.Y.C. "I was putting in another schedule request and my manager said to me, 'Are you sure you want to come back to work?' And, I was like, 'I'm not coming back.' I took a chance on myself." I had some TV and film credits, but nothing was really enough to get me over the finish line," Everett says. "I stuck with it because I had my health insurance. Related: Sex and the City Cast: Where Are They Now?
