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Jennie Garth discusses her rocky path to sobriety, the heartbreak of Luke Perry’s death that left her paralyzed with grief, and how she healed after a painful divorce and miscarriages, as she promotes her memoir I Choose Me and a related podcast, illustrating how she’s choosing herself and reinventing her life.
New York heiress Belle Burden says her ex-husband, Henry Davis, stopped handling day-to-day parenting after their 20-year marriage and refused to give their 12-year-old daughter a bedroom in his new apartment, offering only Thursday dinners. Burden details in her memoir how Davis, who lives nearby, largely withdrew from daily routines like homework, while two older children stayed with friends or at boarding school and the youngest longed for a bedroom. Davis has given only limited explanations, describing a perceived “switch” that flipped, as Burden discusses the impact of the split on their family.
At a Los Angeles book event for her memoir Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, Liza Minnelli came across as fragile onstage, with Michael Feinstein guiding a talk interspersed with audiobook clips and vintage performances—an onstage narrative that diverged from the memoir’s polished voice and footage, underscoring how a legend’s story is mediated in real time while the audience remained supportive.
In her memoir Kids, Wait Till You Hear This One!, Liza Minnelli reflects on six standout moments—from childhood with Judy Garland and early Hollywood pressures to a dramatic engagement with Peter Sellers, a transformative collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys on the album Results, a comeback moment via Arrested Development, and a lifelong battle with substance use disorder—presenting the book as a bold effort to reclaim her story after the 2022 Oscars controversy.
Valerie Bertinelli's memoir Getting Naked chronicles not just her public life but private struggles—from divorce and career upheaval to childhood sexual abuse and EMDR therapy—leading to forgiveness, a commitment to self-acceptance and emotional safety, a shift away from diet culture and plastic surgery, and the revelation that posing nude for the cover was a fear she faced once and won't repeat.
In her long-awaited memoir Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, Liza Minnelli recounts a life in showbiz filled with drama—from a cocaine-fueled romance with Martin Scorsese and turbulent marriages to backstage Oscar-night chaos, including Lady Gaga supposedly testing her memory and insisting a wheelchair be used, while Minnelli details caring for her mother Judy Garland from age 13.
In her memoir Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, Liza Minnelli recounts a passionate, drug-fueled romance with Martin Scorsese during the 1977 New York, New York shoot, calling it a self-destructive obsession; both were married at the time, the affair involved heavy drug use and heartbreak, including her firing Scorsese from The Act, with a tense Oscars reunion decades later and lingering hurt.
Britney Spears’ March 4 DUI arrest in Ventura County was reportedly not sparked by her ex-husband Kevin Federline’s tell-all memoir, You Thought You Knew. A source says Federline’s book wasn’t the catalyst, though it upset Spears and her issues allegedly predate the memoir. Spears was released the next day, and her family is exploring treatment options for addiction and mental health as they plan support for her future.
In her memoir, Liza Minnelli details her fraught relationship with Judy Garland, including Garland's last words to Minnelli before Garland's 1969 death from an accidental overdose, and Minnelli maintains Garland did not commit suicide, while also noting Garland's own unfinished autobiographical work.
In Kids, Wait Til You Hear This!, Liza Minnelli delivers unabashed candor about a life in the spotlight, recounting a web of Hollywood and Broadway affairs (including Martin Scorsese) and family turmoil with Judy Garland, feuds with Gene Hackman and Stephen Sondheim, a controversial stint with David Gest, a night sleeping on a New York bench, and a claim that she helped Michael Jackson invent the moonwalk, all while detailing battles with addiction and a willingness to date well into her 80s.
Dani Evans discusses Netflix’s Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, revisiting the show’s controversial pressure to alter her accent and close her dental gap, and explains how the experience shaped her career, her fashion line Monrowe, and an upcoming memoir that foregrounds her life and family over her ANTM notoriety, signaling a reclamation of her narrative and a move beyond the Top Model era.
Eric Dane completed his memoir My Book of Days: A Memoir in Moments just before dying from ALS; due Nov. 3, 2026, published by Maria Shriver’s Open Field. The deeply personal book reflects on family, resilience, faith, sobriety, fatherhood, and living fully despite terminal illness, a work Dane wrote with his daughters in mind.
Former Good Morning America host Joan Lunden, 75, writes in her memoir that an ABC executive invited her to an overnight Fire Island gathering under the pretense of a work event, pressured her for a bedroom encounter, and retaliated at work with killed story ideas and pay cuts after she pushed back, before she threatened legal action and received an apology.
Christina Applegate reveals in her memoir You With the Sad Eyes that she sensed her 2001 marriage to Johnathon Schaech wouldn’t endure the moment she walked toward the ceremony, even muttering that the relationship wasn’t right and critiquing his shoes; the pair divorced in 2007 after a 2001–2005 marriage. She’s since married Martyn LeNoble (2013–present) and they share daughter Sadie, while Schaech has moved on and attended a GLAAD event with his wife.
Christina Applegate reveals in her memoir You With the Sad Eyes that she knew on her 2001 wedding day to Johnathon Schaech that the marriage wouldn’t last, describing the ceremony as a perfectionism-heavy moment and recalling the line of thinking that led her to realize the partner wasn’t right; the couple stayed together until Schaech filed for divorce in 2005 (finalized in 2007). Both have since remarried—Applegate to Martyn LeNoble and Schaech to Jana Kramer and later Julie Solomon—and Applegate has shared her journals with her daughter while navigating a multiple sclerosis diagnosis.