Jamie Lee Curtis Says the Only Celebrity She Ever Asked for an Autograph Was Jaleel White

Jamie Lee Curtis will do anything for her kids — even if it leaves her slightly embarrassed.

During a Sept. 4 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Freakier Friday star, 66, got a major case of the giggles while playing the show’s “Questionert” segment. When host Stephen Colbert asked if Curtis had ever asked another celebrity for their autograph, she struggled to answer through her uncontrollable laughter.

“I’m assuming that’s a yes,” Colbert, 61, quipped as Curtis nodded. “Who did you ask?”

“Urkel,” she blurted out, referring to Jaleel White’s iconic Family Matters character Steve Urkel. “I was with my child.”

The actress explained that White gave her the autograph, and she still has it all these years later.

“I have it in her scrapbook,” Curtis revealed.

“That’s so sweet,” Colbert said. “That’s a nice mom.” Wiping tears from laughing so hard, Curtis declared: “I’m a nice mom!”

Curtis shares two daughters who she adopted with husband Christopher Guest.

The couple adopted their oldest daughter, 38-year-old Annie Guest, in 1986 when she was a newborn.

“We were awakened in the middle of the night with the phone call announcing that she was born,” Curtis told PEOPLE in 1991.

Their second daughter is Ruby Guest, now 29, who they adopted in 1994. Curtis previously revealed to Pact’s Point of View in 1997 that she was there to witness the birth, cut the cord and be the first to hold the baby.

Ruby publicly came out as transgender in 2021. That year, she told PEOPLE about what it was like coming out to her parents.

“It was scary — just the sheer fact of telling them something about me they didn’t know,” Ruby admitted. “It was intimidating — but I wasn’t worried. They had been so accepting of me my entire life.”

Curtis later described herself as “a grateful student” who is “learning a lot from Ruby.”

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In an episode of Morning Joe in August 2023, the Halloween alum gushed over motherhood and supporting Ruby through her journey.

“This life is about love,” Curtis said. “Being a parent is about love, and I love Ruby. Love her. People have said, ‘You’re so great to accept her love.’ What are you talking about? This is my daughter, this human being has come to me and said, ‘This is who I am.’ And my job is to say, ‘Welcome home.’”