After seeing the viral story of Owens working at Trader Joe's, Perry tells GMA, "I said, 'Hmm, I got something for you. I'll write a senator in, make you a senator in this'....I called him up and the next week I had written him into 11 shows. But when he showed up the first day, I saw him in costume, I had 20,000 more ideas running in my head for him." Perry says Owens' story reminded him of his days trying to make it while "sleeping in my car, struggling, wondering how I was going to pay the bills."
TOPICS: The Haves and Have Nots, Oprah Winfrey Network, Geoffrey Owens, Tyler Perry