A note from Wild Card host Rachel Martin: The first time I encountered Busy Philipps wasn't in "Freaks and Geeks" or "Dawson's Creek." It was her talk show, "Busy Tonight." I remember catching one of the early episodes and thinking to myself, this woman is funny and wild, and publicly vulnerable in a way that was rare at the time.
Busy has lived a lot of her life out loud, so it made sense that she'd go public about a recent health scare – a brain tumor that required two different brain surgeries. And all this happened while she was preparing for her role in the new CBS Paramount show, "Cupertino."
