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If you’re traveling withChelsea Handler, you better be ready to play by her rulebook.

“And,” she continued, “dont leave beer bottles under the deck.

Don’t drink the last margaritas without filling up the pitcher.

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The formerChelsea Latelyhost included other guidelines that everyone would have to agree to moving forward.

“You have to be off your phone at dinner.

you might’t be sitting there when we’re engaging and playing a game.

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You have to be present,” she said, running through the letter.

“This is what a family vacation is about!”

Her family members were initially stunned by the letter.

“They were obviously appalled.

They were like, ‘Oh my God, now she’syellingat us?'”

But I said these are the requirements moving forward.

In response, Handler said her family tried to point fingers at one another for their bad behavior.

“They were embarrassed,” she said.

These are your kids.

I don’t have any kids you’re able to complain about another home run by me!’

So I sent it, and they slowly started saying, ‘We’re really sorry.'”

Then someone unintentionally paid it forward.

“Three, four months go by I get the letter from someone,” she recalled.

And I’m like, ‘It’s my letter!

HostJimmy Kimmelnoted that receiving it must have been the “ultimate validation” for her.

“I know, she replied.

“It was so funny.”

“I now vacation with the kids alone and the adults alone,” she said.

So that’s my new thing.

I’m figuring it out.”