Kelly Ripa might just have a new untapped skill, but one she maybe shouldn’t be discussing on live TV.
On this morning’s episode of Live with Kelly and Mark, Ripa brought up how she just learned that Sudafed — the kind that “you have to give your driver’s license for and you have to go ask behind the counter” — is being used to make crystal meth.
“Yeah, haven’t you ever seen Breaking Bad?” her husband and co-host Mark Consuelos chimed in.
“Call me crazy, I thought that was just a fun TV show,” Ripa said, adding that she “did not realize they were basing it in actually how people make crystal meth.”
“But now that we all know that, we can all agree,” she continued, “I would have been great at baking crystal meth. I’m a baker! I’m a cook! I know how to bake things!”
Consuelos affirmed her reasoning, telling her that she “follow[s] instructions” and is “very precise.”
“It never occurs to me to go, ‘I wonder what would happen if I added turmeric to this,'” she quipped. “That doesn’t occur to me! If you tell me a recipe, I follow it to the letter,” deeming herself a “rule follower.”
Ripa’s revelation emerged from the news of the FDA deeming a common ingredient in over-the-counter decongestants to be ineffective. She talked about how “these other versions of Sudafed” – name dropping Allegra and DayQuil — are medications she will “pop willy-nilly” if she’s “feeling a little run down [or] coming down with a cold.”
“I always think they work for me, but I believe it’s because I don’t take medication usually ever, so if I take any medication it has like an immediate effect on my system,” she explained. She then singled out the show’s EP Michael Gelman, who she called “a pill popper,” and mentioned how these medications “never seem to work on him.”
“The new versions that you can’t make illegal drugs out of,” Gelman specified from offstage.
Ripa then brought up the news from the FDA and acknowledged that she was wrong: “You are correct Gelman, and I was just having some placebo effect,” she admitted.
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