NEW YORK — Make-A-Wish received what might be a first for their organization today: a request from two disabled best friends for a “Freaky Friday” situation. (Before you check, yes, it’s trending on Twitter.)
When we spoke to Leslie Motter, CEO of the company, she had to change clothes three times due to nervous sweating. “We try to, um, be respectful. You know, in this political climate. Uh. Sorry. I need a minute to think about how to word this.” Good thing her emergency PR team is on speed dial.
“Yes. We want to swap disabilities,” said Louise Durrand and Isha Hayes, beaming in sync. The two best friends share everything — classes, clothes, hobbies, lunches, favorite movies, even a matching terminal illness diagnosis (twinsies!). The one thing they DON’T share? Their disabilities.
“Louise is blind and I’m in a wheelchair,” Hayes told us. “She wants to ride around in my badass chair and I want to not have to see the terrible food they’re feeding us at the hospital. It was the only logical thing for us to use our wish on.”
Make-A-Wish tried to compromise by sending actors Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan from “Freaky Friday” to visit the girls, but they simply shook their heads “no” when the stars walked into their hospital room.
We asked Motter the hard-hitting question: Is she worried about the organization getting canceled over this “disability swap”? “Canceled? No.” Motter laughed nervously. “That’s not why I’m worried. Swapping disabilities requires dark magic, which would awaken an ancient ancestral evil from the depths of the planet’s inner crust and molten core, resulting in worldly destruction. The last thing we all need right now is ANOTHER evil around. But it’s our policy to fulfill any wish no matter what, so …”
“It was just a prank!” The best friends told us after hearing Motter’s interview, tears of laughter in their eyes. “We just wanted to see what they’d say. That’s something else we do together: being absolutely hilarious. Honestly, we’re glad to be ourselves, because that also means we get to be each other’s best friend … hey, did someone else here wish for a lava monster? I see something weird outside.”