We could be tempted to think that the lives of Hollywood's elite are pain-free, happy, and perfectly functional. However, like all creatures of flesh and blood, many stars have experienced miserable lows. Others have been completely forthright, recounting their experiences in frank memoirs that astonished the world. In contrast, others have chosen to remain silent to keep up the appearance of a flawless life.
These celebrity autobiographies exposed ugly facts that stirred up controversy. They shocked the public, from Corey Feldman's first-person account of pedophilia in Hollywood to Lena Dunham's casual revelations about her sister.
1. Michael J. Fox
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Michael J. Fox almost died on the set of Back to the Future Part III, he writes in his memoir Lucky Man: A Memoir. During a stunt that required him to dangle on a rope around his neck, Michael came dangerously close to being strangled to death. He said the stunt had gone off without a hitch during rehearsals, but when it came time to film, he could not get his hands in the appropriate spot before the rope suffocated him. For "many seconds," he swung from the rope before anyone noticed that he wasn't paying attention.
2. Danny Trejo
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Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood is Danny Trejo's autobiography, in which he describes meeting and being mesmerized by Charles Manson in prison.While Manson was serving time in the Los Angeles County jail in 1961, 17-year-old Danny was also caught and taken there. He revealed that Manson had promised his fellow inmates, in exchange for their protection, that he would lead them in a guided meditation that would produce the same effects as drug use. After settling in, they started their meditation. He spent 15 minutes explaining in great detail how to "cop the dope," "fix," "boil the heroin in a spoon," "pull it into a needle," and "put it in our veins."
3. Will Smith
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Will Smith's first serious relationship was with Melanie, who cheated on him. Will confessed to "homeopathic cures of shopping and rampant sexual intercourse" As soon as he met her, he got focused on "healing her trauma" Melanie's gaze replaced Gigi's [his grandmother's] approval, he said. "I needed a woman to achieve for," Will's "psychosomatic reaction" to orgasms caused him to puke and vomit.
"I had so much sex with so many women that I developed a psychosomatic reaction to orgasming," he stated. When he started dating Jada Pinkett Smith, he had sex numerous times a day for four months to "satisfy" her.
4. Drew Barrymore
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Drew Barrymore admitted in her debut autobiography, Little Girl Lost, that she took marijuana for the first time at 10. What did she say? "I was in the backseat of a car being driven by a friend's mother when I was about ten and a half years old. Soon after, she took up marijuana use. I wanted to try marijuana for a long time, but I was terrified to ask for fear of hearing, "No way, Drew." You're still a kid. But when she offered me some, I thought, "Why not?," and accepted."
5. Melissa Joan Hart
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Melissa Joan Hart admitted in her memoir Melissa Explains It All that she used marijuana, mushrooms, ecstasy, and mescaline during her time on Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She said she had never "snorted or fired anything into [her] body." She said, "I turned down coke the only time I was offered cocaine, and it was from Paris Hilton." Melissa even admits that she popped ecstasy the "third or fourth time" she went to a party at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles and then showed up the next day at a Maxim photoshoot with a severe hangover.
6. Carrie Fisher
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Carrie Fisher reveals in her memoir The Princess Diarist that she had an affair with Harrison Ford while filming Star Wars. He was 33, married, and had two kids when she was 19. After George Lucas' 32nd birthday, they slept in his studio car on the way to London. stated, "My wine-soaked virtue was in a tug-of-war, and I wasn't sure how it would end, but I knew who I wanted to win: my co-star with the scar on his chin, the dialogue in his head, and the pistol in his belt — not now, just in character, but nonetheless. After a skirmish, Mr. Ford shoved my virtue and me into the back of his studio car and said, "Go!" The crew joined us."
7. Leah Remini
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Leah Remini said in Troublemaker that Scientology leaves children alone. Her explanation: "Scientology considers minors spiritual beings, not children who need protection. Regardless of your age, you are accountable for your life. The Sea Org thought their kids could make decisions." Some youngsters were evicted; she stated, "These kids couldn't live with their parents. Their parents felt it was the child's decision, even if it meant squatting or staying in a stranger's flat."
Leah said she'd seen the Sea Org's "nursery" neglect babies, including her sister Shannon. Added she, "The Quality Inn hotel room filled with weeping, neglected babies, insects, and soiled diapers was called a "nursery." Only a window fan provided ventilation. The person in charge was a teenager like me, an unqualified Sea Org member on the post. Shannon cried and peed in her cot. Overwhelming neglect."
8. Holly Madison
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Holly Madison wrote her memoir about her first night in the Playboy Mansion. Hugh Hefner offered her a quaalude and said, "In the '70s, we called these 'thigh openers.'" She refused drugs but became intoxicated. Tina Jordan, Hugh's then-girlfriend, showed Holly his "Hoarders-like" bedroom. She remembered intense porn playing on two TVs as Hugh masturbated to lesbian pals. Holly recalls being pushed toward Hugh by a buddy who told him to "date the new chick." "It was so brief that I can't remember what it felt like," she wrote.
9. Viola Davis
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In her memoir Finding Me, Viola Davis spoke about her life as a poor child in Central Falls, Rhode Island. To elaborate, she said, "We were po*" This is even worse than being poor. She continued by saying that they had to make do with food stamps alone to feed their family of five and that they had no working toilets in their house, so she had to become "quite expert at filling up a bucket and dumping it into the toilet to flush it." In addition, she said that they would be "unwashed" and unable to use their kitchen again because "the rats had taken over." Multiple fires had broken out in the apartment building she was in.