Gabrielle Union, Anna Faris, And 10 Other Celebrities Who Revealed Very Personal And Surprising Details About Their Exes In Their Memoirs
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Gabrielle Union, Anna Faris, And 10 Other Celebrities Who Revealed Very Personal And Surprising Details About Their Exes In Their Memoirs,These celeb memoirs certainly don't hold anything back.
Gabrielle Union, Anna Faris, And 10 Other Celebrities Who Revealed Very Personal And Surprising Details About Their Exes In Their Memoirs
Editor’s Note: This post includes references to domestic violence, depression, infertility.
Whether they have ghostwriters or just a natural flair for the written word, celebrity memoirs can be really, really good.
Especially if you like to learn about other celebrities…like many of their exes.
And in a lot of these celeb memoirs, they often reveal behind-the-scenes info about their exes and current spouses. Here are some of the best memoir revelations:
1. Mary-Louise Parker’s memoir, Dear Mr. You, covers the years she was left by Billy Crudup — including when he left a pregnant Parker to pursue a relationship with Claire Danes.
Bruce Glikas / Bruce Glikas / WireImageInterestingly, Parker doesn’t identify him by name, but what she does include is a truly poignant letter.
In “Dear Mr. Cabdriver,” she writes: “I am alone. Look, see? I am pregnant and alone. It hurts to even breathe.”
Bruce Glikas / Bruce Glikas / WireImageWhew.
2. In Gabrielle Union’s second memoir, You Got Anything Stronger, she writes about her heartbreak at finding out Dwyane Wade had a child with someone else.
Emma Mcintyre / WireImage“To say I was devastated is to pick a word on a low shelf for convenience, the experience of Dwyane having a baby so easily while I was unable to, left my soul not just broken into pieces, but shattered into fine dust scattering in the wind.”
3. In her first memoir — and in a lighter story — Union described her first husband, NFL player Chris Howard, proposing to her with a “bucket of KFC on the floor.”
Randy Shropshire / Getty Images for GLAAD“I spent the whole day at the spa and when I got back to his house, there was a rose petal path from the front door to the bedroom,” she wrote in her first memoir, We’re Going To Need More Wine, according to BET. “At the end was Chris, down on one knee. He had a bucket of KFC on the floor, and he was eating KFC potato wedges with one hand while holding a ring in the other.”
4. In her memoir, Open Book, Jessica Simpson revealed she had “Instagram-girlfriend syndrome before it was a thing,” and that she wanted the world to see her then-husband Nick Lachey in the “best light” because she was “hopelessly” in love with him.
Bg020 / GC ImagesJessica wrote in her 2020 memoir that she didn’t want to outshine Nick, and went on to add that she wanted him to feel like he could “show me all that he knew” about the entertainment industry and the world.
Jon Kopaloff / FilmMagicJessica included diary entries in the memoir, including a passage she wrote to Nick shortly after their porce. In reference to Nick’s relationship (now marriage) with Vanessa Lachey, she wrote, “Seems that you forgot the love you spoke to me.”
Jerod Harris / Getty Images for Netflix5. Demi Moore spilled a lot of tea about her relationship with Ashton Kutcher in her 2019 memoir Inside Out. She wrote that he told her ‘I don’t think I can do this, and I don’t know if this is working,’ after she’d settled on an egg donor during an ongoing fertility struggle.
Anthony Harvey / Getty Images“I felt like the wind had been knocked out of me,” she shared in her book.
She revealed Ashton allegedly told Demi “I never thought you’d go through with it” when she asked him why he let her go through the process of finding a potential donor.
Jim Spellman / WireImageFertility wasn’t the only sensitive issue Demi discussed in the book. She also described the couple’s exploration of nonmonogamy as an ultimate “mistake.”
Jeff Vespa / WireImage“Part of the point of monogamy is the energy of somebody making the sacrifice or the choice for you,” Demi wrote in part. “As soon as another person is brought in, you are no longer being held in that sacred spot.”
Alo Ceballos / FilmMagicDemi also alleged that Ashton once received a note from a 21-year-old while the couple was at a bowling alley…and allegedly brought the note-writer back to their shared home when Demi was traveling.
Alo Ceballos / FilmMagic6. In Anna Faris’ memoir Unqualified, she wrote, “It felt like I was crossing something off the list. Live together, check. Marriage, check.”
J. Vespa / WireImage“It was great, except every day we were searching for conversation,” Anna writes about her porce from her first husband, Ben Indra. “It was as if I suddenly realized, after almost a decade, that we had almost nothing in common.”
She also wrote, “Sure, I get to proclaim I didn’t fuck Chris before I left Ben, but what is there to celebrate in that? It didn’t make me a hero.”
Mike Marsland / Via Getty“After all,” she wrote in reference to her eventual second husband, Chris Pratt. “I wanted to, desperately. And I had feelings for him, obviously, even if I wasn’t honest with myself about what those were.”
“So while I didn’t cheat,” she admits. “I’m not completely innocent, either.”
7. Tiffany Hadish’s memoir, The Last Black Unicorn, discusses the alleged physical abuse from her then-husband.
Axelle / FilmMagic“He grabbed me by the collar,” she wrote in her 2017 book, recalling, “he was like, ‘It’s time to go to the room now,’ in front of everybody.”
“Just snatched me by my shirt, and pulled me to the elevator and threw me in it…once we got to our hotel room, he was so quick,” she alleged. “He snatched me by the neck and slammed me into the wall.”
Robert Smith / Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagesHer ex-husband, William Stewart, sued the comedian (and her publisher, Simon & Schuster) for libel, slander, and defamation over his depiction in her memoir, seeking $1 million in damages. Though he was never identified by name in the text, he argued he was identifiable because he is her only ex-husband.
8. In Holly Madison’s memoir, Down The Rabbit Hole, she gave readers a reality check about life in the Playboy Mansion. About her first night sleeping with Hugh Hefner (an unofficial precursor to her invitation to move into the mansion), she wrote: “It was so brief that I can’t even recall what it felt like beyond having a heavy body on top of mine.”
Denise Truscello / WireImage“Hef knew how desperate, sad, and broken I was, but didn’t do a damn thing about it,” she wrote. “I’d given seven years of my life to a man who couldn’t even have a conversation with me.”
Ethan Miller / Via Getty9. In Kelly Ripa’s memoir, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories, she shared that her now-husband Mark Consuelos broke up with her less than one week before he asked her to elope with him in Vegas.
Craig Barritt / Getty Images for The Trevor ProjectThe pair continued working together at the time, and Kelly recalls that Mark allegedly said, “We have tomorrow and Thursday off. Why don’t we fly to Vegas and get married?” And a couple of days later, they did!
10. Yolanda Hadid wrote in her 2017 memoir, Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease, that people in her life doubted her Lyme disease diagnosis, including her then-spouse.
Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty ImagesYolanda recalled that her husband at the time, David Foster, told her, “Your sick card is up.”
11. Kim Gordon called her porce from Thurston Moore the most “conventional story ever” in her memoir, Girl in a Band.
Axelle / FilmMagicFans were, and are, bummed to see the 27-year-long marriage end, which Gordon says she understands.
12. In Redefining Realness, the 2014 memoir from Janet Mock, she wrote deeply about her ex-husband, Troy, and what a pivotal role he played in her twenties.
Sean Zanni / Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagesIn speaking to People in an interview about the book, Janet said her now-husband, Aaron Treddwell, didn’t mind reading so much about a past relationship of Janet’s and was, in fact, “deeply appreciative” of Troy for taking such good care of her in the past.
What celebrity memoirs do you recommend? What do you wish stars got even more real about? Drop them in the comments!
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