When it was dropping I cold called Kris Jenner. I was looking at this house for a year and it started at $14.5 million but I kept watching it and it went down to $10.8 million but I got it for $10.5 million and I paid in cash. KG: No, of course not but here’s how it happened.

ST: Did you not know that they were going to be your neighbors? This house is nothing but a middle finger and I am not only keeping up with Kardashians, I am actually accidentally next door to them. What’s funny is, cut to where I could afford it, and you are absolutely right. I was already keeping up with the Joneses then because all the other Joneses were in the same boat. Some of my friends had parents with money but for the most part, everybody had a studio apartment. The cool thing about all those years when I was indigent was that it was okay to indigent as pretty much all my friends were. I am very self-effacing about where I am in life and who I am. I had a show called ‘My Life On The D-List’ and I think it is very important in life to know where your lane is - if you want to stay in it, stay in it. KG: I think you have to be smart about where you are in life. ST: Working the entertainment industry, was it hard to resist splashing the cash to give the impression of affluence and success? I would take the pay stub to the Les Kelley Clinic or the Venice Family Clinic to prove that I made such a crappy salary and would qualify and it was the best healthcare I have ever had! My parents were very clear about me staying in the apartment for as long I could, saving my money and that’s what I happily did. I was taking acting classes at junior college, I was a Kelly Girl temp making $140 a week, or $114 after taxes, so I was technically indigent. With my first place, all I can say is, ‘Thank God for rent control.’ My mom and dad were hardcore about Santa Monica having it and, coming from Chicago, we didn’t know what that was so when we found out about it we knew that was where I should be. One of the reasons I love giant homes is because I lived in a studio apartment for so long. Of course, I was full of **** because, by that time, I myself had lived with my parents, in an apartment, until I was 28. When I was in The Groundlings, and later on when I was a teacher at The Groundlings which was my day job, I used to make fun of Will Ferrell because he and his brother lived in his mother’s basement. I never bought anything that I couldn’t afford, I never lived above my means and so if that meant living in a studio apartment, in one room, for seven years then so be it - and I was very happy there by the way. Kathy Griffin: My mom and dad kept saying that I was not going to able to maintain the rent but I have to say that years and years of my parents telling that I can’t afford certain things, or that I had to save more, kind of worked.

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