AUSA and Scott Foley

This is a Tale where both Jen and Lisa were involved. We’ve both written our side of the story–since there really are two sides to this Tale!

Jen’s version:

I’ve been in love with Scott Foley for years. There’s something about his smile, the twinkle in his eyes…he makes me happy. It’s not like a deep lust thing, it’s more of a “I know I’d feel safe and content and happy around him” thing. In December 2002, I was having a really stressful week although I can’t even remember now what was going on. Lisa called me with the news that she’d gotten us tickets to see the filming of AUSA, Scott’s new sitcom. I was so excited, bouncing all over the house. I arranged a babysitter and was all good to go.

The morning of the filming came and I started throwing up, violently. My temperature soared to 103. The stomach flu had hit me with a vengeance. I was, of course, depressed and mad. I called Lisa, told her I couldn’t make it but that she better go and take notes. Then later I dropped her an email, and the last line of the email I jokingly said, “Have Scott call me.”

When my husband came home from work that night I went to bed. I’d been so sick all day I could barely stand up. Now, mind you, when I’m that sick and running a fever, I tend to hallucinate. At around 10:40 that night, my hubby came into the room and woke me up, handing me the phone. “Honey, I think Scott Foley is on the phone for you.” I was wayyyy out of it, had been deeply asleep in weird, hallucination like dreams. But I still got the meaning behind his words, and struggled to remember if I’d told him about what I’d written to Lisa. He handed me the phone and I very tentatively said, “Hello?”

There was a man on the phone, and he told me who he was, but at the time I didn’t understand a word of it. I finally got that he was going to transfer me to Scott Foley.

I recognized Scott’s voice as soon as he picked up the phone. I can’t remember exactly what we talked about although I’m sure Lisa can fill in some of the blanks. I remember he asked why I wasn’t there at the taping and I told him I had the stomach flu. He invited me to come to a taping in January, and said he looked forward to meeting me. I know we talked for about a minute, with my heart beating like crazy in my chest, but I never once said anything that would make me sound like a fool. I don’t know how I managed that.

Of course as soon as I hung up the phone, I had to throw up. LOL! And it wasn’t from nerves, it was my damn flu. Then I went out and told my hubby that I’d talked to Scott Foley and he was incredibly nice, and then I fell back to sleep. It was definitely an interesting experience, I just wish I could remember it better!

Then in January I went to see Scott in person. I spent eight hours watching them tape AUSA…and was excited when Jennifer Garner showed up on set for six of those hours to spend time with her hubby. They were so incredibly cute and loving together, which was why when I heard three months later that they were separating I went into shock. When I met Scott, he remembered me from the phone call, and we spent a few minutes chatting. He is truly one of the two nicest guys I’ve ever met in Hollywood (the other being James Marsters “Spike” from Buffy and Angel).

I went again to the taping a week later, spoke with him again and he signed my first season Felicity DVD for me. He actually signed it twice, the first time he signed it on the outside of the box and because of the glossy exterior it immediately beaded up. He wrote, “Jennifer~You are a woman of your word! Best wishes! Scott Foley” Then because it had beaded up and he was afraid it would come off, heopened it to the inside and signed, “Jennifer, thanks for watching~for everything! Scott Foley”

Unfortunately, life got busy after that and I was unable to attend anymore tapings of AUSA before the show was cancelled. I’m so glad I got to meet him twice and talk to him on the phone. I appreciate him even more now and will always support his career.

Jen (Scott Foley fan!!!!)
(the far from normal but not as weird half of Ashleigh Raine)

Lisa’s Version:

Just for the fun of it, I managed to dig the email out of my archives:

WAH!

I was just watching last night’s rerun of Friends and it showed a commercial for A.U.S.A. Scott is so fucking hot in a suit. I’m going to cry now…but if I cry I’ll probably puke again. This really sucks. Kiss Scott for me. If you become fast friends with him, have him call me and wish me well (j/k)

J

Well, J, you basically said it all, but here’s how it all happened from my point of view…

I’d never been to a sitcom taping before, so I had no idea what to expect. Anyway, when the warm-up commedian guy started calling people’s friends and families and essentially joking with them, I thought it might be a fun thing to call Jen since she’d really wanted to be there. I spent nearly the entire night trying to get the warm-up guy’s attention, but he never looked my way until late. I told him the quick little story that Jen was sick, but she’d wanted to be there. I had no idea it was going to get any bigger than the warm-up guy talking to Jen.

Anyhow, when the guy dialed Jen’s number, it occured to me that Alex would answer the phone and just as I was about to warn the guy, Alex picked up, so I had to think fast…and holler super loud because I wasn’t real close to the warm-up guy.

I said, “That’s Alex. Tell him Scott Foley’s here. Tell him it’s Lisa and that I’m at AUSA and Scott Foley’s here.” The warm-up guy said, “Huh?” in between talking to Alex, and I replied, “TELL HIM SCOTT FOLEY’S HERE!!!!!!”

At my loud little holler, Mr. Foley himself looked up and said, “What?” And my face immediately turned fourteen shades of crimson. Then, he walked toward the audience and said, “You want me to talk to someone on the phone? Okay.”

So, at that point, the warm-up guy had explained what was going on to Alex and I’m sitting there in utter disbelief that the little quip from Jen’s email is coming true.

Then, Scott asked, “What’s her name?” I hollered, “Jen!” and he replied, “Whoa. Good name.” His smile bright…clearly his marriage to Jen Garner was still happy. Then, Jen got on the phone and Scott started talking to her.

All the while, my fingers were crossed, hoping she wouldn’t be so sick that she’d say something completely idiotic. I was really worried. She sounded sick, but decently coherent. I was actually impressed.

After the call, I thanked him and he was incredibly sweet about the whole thing, inviting us back to see another taping and all. I was practically quaking in my boots because I had no idea it would all escalate quite like that. The man is an absolute sweetheart.

Later on, I checked my voicemail. Jen’s message started out, “I don’t know how you did it, but I was only kidding in my email…”

Now, we’ve come to the realization that when I’m involved, absolutely anything is possible. Craziness happens to me on a daily basis and adding Jen into that mix makes for an even wilder time without my even trying. Of course, now the ‘have him call me’ line is our running joke whenever one of us is going to be near a celebrity. Hey, it happened once, there’s no reason it couldn’t happen again! 🙂

Lisa
[the weird Raine half of Ashleigh Raine]