Jimmy Kimmel asks Katy Perry, Pink, and other celebs to share awkward texts from their moms

As far as Jimmy Kimmel is concerned, the best way to celebrate Mother's Day is by having celebrities embarrass their moms on national television.

On Thursday night, Kimmel asked Katy Perry, Pink, Josh Groban, Billie Eilish, and other stars to read texts their moms had sent them, with some funny, others bizarre, and quite a few having to do with drugs. Groban's mom admitted she can't tell the difference between a shamrock and a marijuana leaf, while Pink's mother, a self-described "stoner mom," talked about dosing and vaping.

Eilish's mom admonished her one night to "go the duck to sleep!" but the weirdest text goes to Perry's mother, who shared relationship advice. Women need to let men take the lead, she said, as "the man is the head but the woman is the neck that turns the head, you just have to do it where he doesn't think you're doing it, kind of like turning a sail on a sailboat in the wind, subtle but it'll start to glide." Listen to the whole rambling text, plus Rob Delaney's mom's profane adventures with autocorrect, below. Catherine Garcia

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