Interview · moment 7 of 17
Guest's Schizophrenic Mother and Early Acting Career
from Call OJ Daddy with Stavros Halkias | The Tim Dillon Show #342 · #342
4 min
Guest
Following the sketch clip, Tim and his guest discuss his mother's schizophrenia diagnosis in her 20s, his early acting jobs including Sesame Street and a student film called Truck Stop, and joke about never being molested due to his grandmother's vigilance.
- Tim's mother was obsessed with the O.J. Simpson trial in the 90s while institutionalized.
- Guest explains when schizophrenia typically emerges—early 20s or later during hormonal shifts like menopause.
- Guest's first acting gig was in an O.J. Simpson made-for-TV movie, shooting all day at a Connecticut house with his grandmother.
- Tim discloses he's defending O.J. as a job creator, not as a person, to be journalistically transparent.
- Guest appeared on Sesame Street doing a polka with Snuffleupagus early in his career.
- Guest made an NYU student film called "Truck Stop" as a kid and was nominated for an acting award, but the director won't release it to him.
- In "Truck Stop," the guest played an abandoned child at a New Jersey truck stop with his sister and another woman, while a biker gives him a cheeseburger.
- Guest was never sexually abused because his paranoid grandmother and mother guarded him constantly, standing outside bathroom doors.
- Tim notes the guest probably would have survived child stardom better than someone like Amanda Bynes, and jokes he'd have made people sign contracts even as a nine-year-old.