Note: This is not a chat transcript... it's an interview transcript. The interviewer is Toni Yates of WB 17 News Ten in Philadelphia.

Toni Yates: Are you the only child in your family?

Beverley Mitchell: Yes, I am.

Toni Yates: Do you like that?

Beverley Mitchell: I love it! I love it. I'd never be able to do this if I had siblings because my -- then my mom would have to do things for them.

Toni Yates: Tell us about Lucy.

Beverley Mitchell: Well, Lucy is a teenager. She's just starting high school so she's going through the trauma of being the freshman, the lowest in the totem pole at high school and she's sometime very insecure with herself. She looks up to her big sister, which she considers her best friend. She's always nervous about boys. She wants a boyfriend. She just broke up with her boyfriend that she had for a long time. She's a very fun just normal teenager.

Toni Yates: How is it for you being a single kid and being a part of a big TV family and making that work? You make it believable.

Beverley Mitchell: Well, um, I guess I've just been adopted into this family. We've all kind of become like brothers and sisters, like we're all so close, like I have a second family and Jessie's my other sister and Steven and Catherine are like my other parents. I can go and talk to any of them and they're always ready to listen. It's kind of nice.

Toni Yates: Does that bond just come with working together all the time?

Beverley Mitchell: I guess it's (that) these are great people and we all just clicked -- automatically clicked and we all just work great together, which is really nice.

Toni Yates: What's the hardest part about being Lucy?

Beverley Mitchell: I'd say she's so temperamental. She always is -- she gets upset so easily. She's out of nowhere will just start crying or just storm out of her room. I guess that be hard but that's just like any other teenager. I've gone through that phase where I just didn't want to deal with things and run out or just started crying or just like any normal teenager.

Toni Yates: Why does Lucy dress all in black?

Beverley Mitchell: Well, Lucy went through this phase where she likes this guy and he's what you'd say a beatnik. And so I thought that maybe dressing in all black -- I'd kind of make him like me more and I put a braid in my hair and I did this funky blue eye shadow just because I thought that maybe he'd like me better if I dressed like that.

Toni Yates: And so what's the lesson? Where will the lesson come from? Will it come from your bigger sister?

Beverley Mitchell: It's really just that Lucy should be Lucy. You can't change yourself to make anyone like you. You just got to be yourself and that's when they will come to like you. It seems like you're having a good time. Oh, I love this. This is just a dream come true. It's just absolutely amazing how I can do this, the thing that I love, and do it with people that I absolutely adore.

Toni Yates: How has it changed your life? Have your parents had to adjust their schedules?

Beverley Mitchell: Yeah, my mom works for her dad so it helps that she can always get off work to take me. But I've also grown up a lot like I, not actually grown up, but I know my responsibilities and I just think it's made me a better person cause I realize how hard people work and I respect my parents a lot more cause I know what they go through. Like having to work and do things and being cranky and tired. I've gone through it already so I know what they are talking about.