Debbie Matenopoulos

Debbie Matenopoulos Instagram – ~Bill Geddie~Boss, Mentor, Friend, Colleague, Producing Partner
I can’t believe I am writing these words. We texted 3 days ago. How is this possible? I am having a hard time making sense of any of this. I have known you for more years of my life than I have not. You started out as my boss who I was so in awe of. You and Barbara took a chance on me for your major network show that would change the face of daytime tv forever. You believed in me and encouraged me when I was a 21 year old kid at NYU and did not believe in myself or my abilities. You changed the trajectory of my life FOREVER. I listened to you and Barbara’s every word and only ever wanted to make both of you proud of me. Over the years our relationship grew from mentor to friend, to mutual respect and admiration as colleagues, to in the last 3 years collaborators and producing partners. One of the greatest joys of my career has been reconnecting with you as partners and beginning to create what we both knew was going to be TV gold. When I first approached you, you were hesitant but you said if anyone could pull you out of retirement it would be me. Those words meant the world to me. You told me how proud you were of my career and what a great career it has been and that you always knew you were right about me despite my unceremonious firing from the View years before. You told me how sorry you were and how sad you were to have to be the henchman. Time heals all wounds. Especially when the person doing the firing was as a kind hearted and fair a person as you were. You have to be pretty awesome a human for someone to still adore and respect you after an experience like that. That speaks volumes about who you were and who you will always be in my heart and my mind. The last few years of zoom calls and texts and studio meetings that you would drive in from your amazing life in the desert for have been so fun and heart warming. I felt like we had come full circle and we were finally home again. You would make me laugh out loud with you jokes and your wit and your no bullshit approach to everything. I was so so so happy to be in your presence again. And now this…..How? Why?caption continued ⬇️ | Posted on 22/Jul/2023 02:01:16