“The Real” co-host Tamera Mowry-Housley made an emotional plea for gun control on Monday after her niece was killed during the mass shooting earlier this month at a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

“Our country — and it’s sad to say this, but you have to be living underneath a rock to not believe these words — our country is sick,” she said. “It’s diseased. It needs healing. It needs healing from within.”

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Mowry-Housley returned from her work hiatus on the daytime talk show to discuss the loss of Alaina Housley, her niece through her marriage to former Fox News correspondent Adam Housley.

Alaina Housley, an 18-year-old freshman at Pepperdine University, was one of 12 people killed on Nov. 8 during a mass shooting inside the Borderline Bar and Grill.

"She was my niece from marriage, but she was my friend and my sister from my heart,” the former “Sister Sister” star said, vowing to advocate for gun control measures.

“It’s obvious that we need change when it comes to gun violence and I don’t care if I have to knock on the doors of the White House to do it,” Mowry-Housley said.

The actress said it was “sad” that the country was so divided on the issue.

“We need to sit down and extend a hand instead of pointing fingers,” Mowry-Housley said through tears. “I think the moment we focus on trying to find commonality instead of differences in the beginning, that’s where we can start with looking at human decency.”

“When we start from there, that is when we can get the work done. That is what Alaina’s voice needs,” she added.

The suspected shooter, identified by police as 28-year-old Ian David Long, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after opening fire inside the Southern California bar on “college country night.”

Twelve people were killed in the attack, including police Sgt. Ron Helus, who was one of the first officers at the scene.