I had done “The Jeffersons” for CBS. That was a CBS movie. I had also just finished something called “Buffalo Soldiers”, but they cut me out of a lot of it and I was really depressed about that cause I had told everybody. Isabel Sanford, my mother, everybody. Oh, man, this is going to be great! It was supposed to be a big thing on NBC. They had my name there, but they cut a lot of me out and I was really embarrassed and that whole thing. I was doing “The Jeffersons” at the time too. That was the first time I had gone through the experience like that where they cut me out of something so I was depressed. And my best friend at that time was a guy named Dorian Harewood who was really big back then. So we were best friends and he came and knocked on my door. Ernest, open up, where are you? I said, Man, I’m depressed I don’t want to talk to anyone, man. Then he said, Betty Davis wants to see you! He said, I’m serious!
