"I'm showcasing my best skiing," she added. "I'm doing things that quite literally have never been done before, and so I think that is more than good enough; but thank you."

At the time of the press conference, Eileen had won five medals total — two silver at Milano-Cortina, and one gold and two silver from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. She has since won another medal — this time, gold.

Barbara didn't stop there, asking, "But do you ever feel like you’re a joke? That people make fun of you?"

Dolly said, "All these years people have thought the joke is on me but it’s actually been on the public. I know exactly what I’m doing and I can change it at any time."

"I am sure of myself as a person, I am sure of my talent," she added. "And I am sure of my love for life and that sort of thing, I am very content. I like the person that I am. So I can afford to 'piddle around' and 'do-diddle around' with makeup and clothes, because I am secure with myself."

Then, when Barbara questioned why Dolly was married when she was away so much, bringing up the "temptations" of life on the road, Dolly basically said she and her husband, Carl Dean (who died in 2025), valued freedom and kept anything that happened with other people to themselves, adding, "I’ve got better things to do than sit around in my room thinking, 'Oh what’s Carl doing tonight, I wonder if he’s with somebody.'"

"I’d like you to explain what you mean by my equipment. In great detail," she said. When Michael awkwardly spluttered, "Well, your physical attributes," Helen said, "You mean my fingers?" As he struggled to respond, she kept pushing, saying "Come on, spit it out." When Michael eventually said, "your figure," gesturing to Helen's breasts, Helen said, "Because serious actresses can’t have big bosoms, is that what you mean?"

Michael responded, "They might detract from the performance," to which Helen replied, "I can’t think that can necessarily be true. What a crummy performance if people are obsessed with the size of your bosom or anything else. I would hope that the performance and the play and the living relationship between all the people on stage and all the people in the audience overcome such boring questions, really."

When Howard suggested Mariah was taking things the wrong way, she said, "Don't." When he then told her she dressed "like a stripper," Mariah held up her hand and said, "You know what, bye Howard." She then pointed out how she previously dressed very conservatively, and said he needed to stop. She went on to shut down speculation about her dating life and her "partying." 

Later, when talking about the emojis she liked to use, including the unicorn, and the host made a dismissive comment about "girls," Ariana said, "Many boys use the unicorn. You need a little brushing up on equality...Who says a unicorn emoji isn’t for men?"

Then, when Ariana was asked about what she wanted to fix in the world, and she mentioned things like racism and sexism, she turned to the host and said, "We’ve got work to do. We’ll start with you."