Judge Judy Sheindlin said that she “probably could benefit from therapy,” but doesn’t plan on going since “I don’t really want to know.”
The longtime TV judge shared her take on therapy during an appearance Sept. 2 on Amy Poehler’s podcast Good Hang. The Parks & Recreation alum noted Sheindlin’s strong sense of self and asked, “Is there anything you're not as certain about as you get older?"
“Younger people — and it may be good — they're more navel gazers than I am. I sit there and say, ‘Oh my God, are you in or out, or left or right?’ ” the Justice on Trial star, 82, said. “I'm a ‘what is, what is’ girl. Because I probably could benefit from therapy."
Never been?” Poehler asked.
“Never been. People will say, well, you for sure could benefit from therapy. Say, well, that's true. But I really don't wanna know,” Sheindlin said. “I'm not that interested in why I feel the way I feel and why this hurts me and why this makes me happy or why this makes me sad. I just wanna say, 'This makes me sad'. And [see] if I can excise it from my life.”
“So the answer is I'm not that introspective,” the Judge Judy and Judy Justice alum explained. “As I said when I started this chat with you, I'm really not an academic and I'm not inquisitive.”
At the top of their conversation, she told Poehler, “Believe it or not, Amy, I'm not intellectually curious … I'm not. If something is, it is. I don't have to know why it is. I know it just is. It makes my life much less complicated.”
Sheindlin elaborated further, telling Poehler, “I'm not intellectually inquisitive. If I like the pizza, I like the pizza. If I don't, I don't. I don't wanna know what you put in your pizza so that it would make it a better pizza. I don't care. I'll go from Joe's pizza to Anthony's pizza, where I know I like it. And not try to change Joe. “