"the bettye lavette that i know... the bettye lavette that's my age?" >> hinojosa: "she's up there singing at the kennedy center honors, and i didn't know about this?" >> the o'jays told me, they said that... they were my very best friends in show business, and i haven't seen them in maybe 30 years, until recently. and they said, "we called everybody we know trying to be on that inaugural show. we called... pulled out every stop. so we decided we're going to stay home, we aren't going to go stand in the cold. we're going to look at it on television." so he says, "we're sitting there, we're looking, and the man says, "ladies and gentlemen, bettye lavette and jon bon jovi." and he said they wanted to say something to each other, but they just kept looking at each other and... >> hinojosa: they were like, "bettye? our bettye lavette? the one who's been in the struggle?" >> right. >> hinojosa: well, bettye, thank you so much. we're glad that the struggle paid off. we really are. >> thank you, baby. >> hinojosa: thank you so much., >> thanks so much for havi