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Highlights from the 57 juiciest celeb memoirs of all time

By EW Staff Updated December 08, 2022 at 02:54 AM EST
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57. Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life

Dear Girls Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
Credit: Random House Trade Paperbacks

In her wildly hilarious and honest memoir, stand-up comedian Ali Wong recalls her 27th birthday, when she received a significant birthday gift from her father. Wong remembers they "sat down on his bed, in his closet room, as he gave me an envelope...Instead, there was a blank card with these instructions: 'Write down all of your goals.' Then, he had me recite them back to him. And after every goal I read out loud to him, he replied, 'So it shall be. '... And, despite having put anal beads up another grown man's ass in a previous relationship, I had never experienced an activity that was so intimate. And straight up free."

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56. Mötley Crüe, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

Motley Crue, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
Credit: Dey Street Books

In Mötley Crüe's confessional memoir, the heavy metal drummer, Tommy Lee, recounts the time when his sex tape with then girlfriend Pamela Anderson leaked to the public: "All of this was going down at a real hard time for us: Pamela and I were getting in fights all the time. Trying to have children, continue the careers that consumed us, make a new relationship work, and deal with the nonstop barrage of bullshit in the press was more of a challenge than we ever could have expected."

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55. Patti Smith, Just Kids

Patti Smith, Just Kids | Just Kids by Patti Smith
Credit: Ecco

In her poignant memoir, the singer-songwriter documents her intimate relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Smith writes, "He began to branch out, photographing those he met through his complex social life, the infamous and the famous, from Marianne Faithfull to a young tattooed hustler. But he always returned to his muse. I no longer felt that I was the right model for him, but he would wave my objections away. He saw in me more than I could see in myself. Whenever he peeled the image from the Polaroid negative, he would say, 'With you, I can't miss.'"

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54. Gabrielle Union, You Got Anything Stronger?

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Credit: HarperCollins

In her essay titled "Dear Isis," Gabrielle Union addresses her Bring It On (2000) character, Isis: "I am here to apologize to you. When I said today that you didn't go far enough, that was on me. I failed you and myself. I was the fourth lead, but my face was on the poster. You were the girl with no last name, but the star of every meme. You were only in about a third of the movie, and now I would know to fight for equal time to tell your story. Your iconic moments with the Clovers are what people remember, though I know it's partly that we are bits of Black resistance dropped in the middle of the milk."

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53. Jessica Simpson, Open Book: A Memoir

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In her tell-all memoir, Jessica Simpson opens up about her struggles with substance abuse. The singer says that "to avoid feeling, I numbed myself with alcohol. For about three years of my life, up until Halloween 2017, I had an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. I never hid it.... I had a prescription for a stimulant, which gave me the focus to never get messy. I'd look around at my friends getting sleepy and/or sloppy and think, I'm just an ox, I guess. Then at night, still flying from the second stimulant that I had maybe taken at 6 p.m. with tons of alcohol in my system, I'd take an Ambien."

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52. Constance Wu, Making a Scene

Making a Scene by Constance Wu
Credit: Simon and Schuster

After receiving a private DM — one that shamed the actress for opening up about her sexual assault from a Fresh Off the Boat producer — from her former colleague, Constance Wu recalls the aftermath: "My head spinning, I realized I needed a wound to prove it, to prove that I hurt as bad as everyone said I deserved to hurt and it couldn't be a little wound, it had to be the biggest wound in the world for it to be enough. That's how I ended up clutching the balcony railing of my fifth-floor apartment."

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51. Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

'I'm Glad My Mom Died,' by Jennette McCurdy
Credit: Simon and Schuster

The former Nickelodeon child star — mostly known for her TV run as Sam Puckett on iCarly and Sam & Cat — gives readers insight into the toxic dynamics between her and her abusive mother. McCurdy writes: "I'm in the ICU with my dying mother, and the thing that I'm sure will get her to wake up, is the fact that in the days since mom has been hospitalized, my fear and sadness have morphed into the perfect anorexia motivation cocktail, and finally I have achieved mom's current goal weight for me: 89 pounds."

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50. Carole Bayer Sager, They're Playing Our Song: A Memoir

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When she was dating Paul Simon, the singer once overheard her mother tell her father that Carole and Paul would have short children.

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49. Stewart Granger, Sparks Fly Upward

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The actor on his dalliance with the very domineering Hedy Lamarr: "If only she'd shut up and stopped giving orders, the ordeal might have been consummated."

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48. Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography

Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography (paperback 1/3/12)by Rob Lowe
Credit: Henry Holt and Co.

The actor does omit some incidents from his memoir, but he's quite forthcoming about his infamous sex-tape scandal: "Sometimes being a trailblazer is overrated. If the Kim Kardashians and Colin Farrells and all the like had let their video oeuvre out into the zeitgeist before me, mine may have been met with a mere titillated shrug."

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47. Martin Short, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

I Must Say
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When Short was at a party at with both Mike Nichols and Warren Beatty, "Warren said, 'I met Eleanor Roosevelt.' Mike called out, 'Did you f--- her?'"

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46. Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

Me: Stories of My Life (10/24/12)by Katharine Hepburn
Credit: Ballantine Books

The actress remembers her decades-long affair with Spencer Tracy: "We did what he liked. We lived a life which he liked. I struggled to change all the qualities I felt he didn't like. Some of them which I thought were my best I thought he found irksome. I removed them, squelched them as far as I was able…"

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45. Esther Williams, The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography

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The actress' kiss-off line to Jeff Chandler — who had a penchant for donning clothes traditionally worn by women — was epic: "Jeff, you're too big for polka dots."

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44. Christina Crawford, Mommie Dearest

Mommie Dearestby Christina Crawford
Credit: William Morrow and Company

Joan Crawford's daughter remembers her allegedly abusive mother: "From her throne in the eye of the hurricane, brandishing her wand of obsession, rules the queen of chaos herself: Mommie Dearest."

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43. Richard Pryor, Pryor Convictions: And Other Life Sentences

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Credit: Pantheon

"On television, people talked about having happy lives, but in the world in which I grew up, happiness was a moment rather than a state of being.... It never stayed long enough for you to get to know it good. Just a taste here and there. A kiss, a sniff, a stroke, a snort."

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42. Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

Carrie Fisher - The Princess Diarist
Credit: Blue Rider Press

The beloved actress looked back fondly on her fling with Harrison Ford during the filming of Star Wars: "My affair with Harrison was a very long one-night stand."

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41. Brandi Glanville, Drinking & Tweeting: And Other Brandi Blunders

Brandi-Glanville
Credit: Gallery Books

The Real Housewife dishes on her husband's then affair with LeAnn Rimes on the set of Northern Lights: "LeAnn had 'accidentally' smeared some cake frosting on her top...[She] asked my husband, not realizing that I was standing behind the both of them, if he wanted [to] lick it off her….This woman asked my husband if he wanted to eat the frosting mess she'd dropped on her nonexistent chest? ... He hadn't realized I was there, either, and he laughed with hungry eyes at the suggestion."

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40. Lauren Bacall, By Myself and Then Some

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The actress famously describes being seduced by Humphrey Bogart on the set of To Have and Have Not: "About three weeks into the picture, I was sitting in the dressing room at the end of the day, combing my hair. Bogie came in to bid me good night. He was standing behind me, and we were joking as usual, when suddenly he leaned over, put his hand under my chin, and kissed me. It was impulsive. He took a worn pack of matches out of his pocket and asked me to put my phone number on the back. I did."

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39. Tab Hunter, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star

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Credit: Algonquin Books

The actor on his sexuality: "In my personal life, I was quite a different Boy Next Door than the one that Mr. and Mrs. Middle America — and their fan-club daughter — imagined me to be."

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38. Brooke Shields, There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me

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The actress spoke frankly about her mother's alcoholism: "It would probably have been easier for me to admit to her disease if I was ever physically abused. My particular abuse was much more subtle and created a longer-lasting impact. Because every time Mom drank, she left me.... I felt abandoned by her when she drank, but as long as I wasn't hurt and she was accounted for and alive, I could justify that everything was all right."

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37. Shirley MacLaine, My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir

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Credit: Bantam

Working with Debra Winger on the Terms of Endearment set was not easy. "'Hey, Mom, get over here. These [placement marks] are yours.'... 'I heard you,' I said. 'I know marks when I see them.' 'Good,' [Winger] said. 'How's this for a mark?' She turned around, walked away from me, lifted her skirt slightly, looked over her shoulder, bent over, and farted in my face."

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36. Ava Gardner, The Secret Conversations

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The actress was contracted to write a memoir, but after hours of conversation with her ghostwriter, changed her mind; this book is drawn from those tapes. On the time she nearly killed Howard Hughes: "I hit him with an ashtray. I think it was onyx. Anyway, it was heavy…. Louis Mayer nearly had kittens when he heard about it. He was convinced I'd killed the guy."

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35. Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

Lena-Dunham
Credit: Random House

In her essay collection, the actress remembers her rape: "I also know that at no moment did I consent to being handled that way. I never gave him permission to be rough, to stick himself inside me without a barrier between us. I never gave him permission. In my deepest self, I know this, and the knowledge of it has kept me from sinking."

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34. Mario Lopez, Just Between Us

Mario-Lopez
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The TV host and actor on losing his virginity at age 12: "What happened next was mostly a blur. I remember a lot of kissing and touching, but past that, I was clueless. I knew nothing about a woman's body. All I could do was try desperately to piece together the fragmented and unreliable information that I'd heard from my older cousins."

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33. Jon Cryer, So That Happened: A Memoir

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Two and a Half Men costar Charlie Sheen told him that his fits of anger were induced by testosterone cream. "Three times a day, you rub the cream on your thighs, and it's deceptive, because you feel the same, but suddenly you're flying into a rage."

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32. Tatum O'Neal, A Paper Life

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In her memoir, the actress claimed that her friend Melanie Griffith, then 18, "dragged me into an opium-fueled orgy" when she was 12.

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31. Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined: A Memoir

31. Jodie Sweetin, Unsweetined
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When she attended the LA premiere of New York Minute, a Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen film, in May 2004, she writes, "I knew I couldn't last a New York minute without doing more meth. I had it in my purse, with a straw, in a little baggie inside a lip-gloss container. Often, I would do meth quickly in public bathrooms, blowing the smoke into wet paper towels so you couldn't see it. At the premiere, though, I just snorted it because I knew I couldn't bring a whole pipe."

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30. Mia Farrow, What Falls Away

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The actress was not happy with former partner Woody Allen: "You're not supposed to f--- the kids!"

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29. Diahann Carroll, The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way

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On the possessiveness of Sidney Poitier, with whom she had a long affair: "Sidney called me at my hotel... 'You bitch, whore, tramp,' he yelled. 'I know he just left your bed. I won't have you running around with other men. You belong to me!'"

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28. Melissa Gilbert, Prairie Tale: A Memoir

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The actress wrote that Johnny Depp once asked to feel her at-the-time lactating breasts at a party, and that she replied, "Yeah, do whatever you want."

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27. Frank Langella, Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them

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The actor is frank about colleagues like Charlton Heston: "It was as if he had appointed himself the forever Numero Uno on the call sheet of life."

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26. Scotty Bowers, Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars

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The longtime Hollywood pimp hardly held back, describing one actor who "liked what is commonly known as 'water sports' or a 'golden shower'... On an even more provocative level, [he] occasionally enjoyed it when his sexual partners — especially young ladies — 'dropped a deuce' or defecated on him."

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25. Patti LuPone, Patti LuPone: A Memoir

Patti LuPone: A Memoirby Patti LuPone
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The actress and singer recalls actor Paul Sorvino, whom she worked with on the doomed production of The Baker's Wife: "On the first day before he was officially introduced to us, whenever a new cast member would enter the rehearsal room, he would hit a high C. It was like having Howdy Doody at Auschwitz."

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24. Tina Turner, I, Tina

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The singer remembers her abusive husband Ike: "[He] grabbed one of those shoe stretchers and started beating me with it… And that was the beginning, the beginning of Ike instilling fear in me. He kept control of me with fear. Why didn't I leave him? It's easy to say now I should've."

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23. Shirley Jones, Shirley Jones: A Memoir

Shirley Jones: A Memoir (7/23/13)
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The Partridge Family mom was definitely not as square as you might think: "We were all in the pool when Jack said, 'Hey, let's all take off our clothes, go inside, and have a foursome!'"

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22. Tina Fey, Bossypants

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The comedian and actress remembers an incident on the SNL set where Amy Poehler was goofing around: "Jimmy Fallon, who was arguably the star of the show at the time, turned to her and in a faux-squeamish voice said: 'Stop that! It's not cute! I don't like it.' Amy dropped what she was doing, went black in the eyes for a second, and wheeled around on him. 'I don't f---ing care if you like it.' Jimmy was visibly startled."

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21. Julia Phillips, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again

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The Hollywood producer called Goldie Hawn "borderline dirty, with stringy hair," David Geffen the "Donald Trump of show business," and agent Michael Ovitz "the Valley viper."

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20. Priscilla Presley, Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll

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Elvis' wife describes their version of a sex tape: "It was the era of the Polaroid… He was the director and I was the star acting out fantasies."

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19. Leah Remini, Troublemaker:Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (11/3/15)by Leah Remini
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In her Scientology memoir, the actress has more than a few choice Tom Cruise anecdotes: When Tom Cruise's longtime assistant resigned, "someone decided that she had done something wrong, and she had to undergo a sec-check* that she says cost her so much that she lost her house. Instead of viewing this…. as cruel injustice, she felt a huge sense of accomplishment when she finished her sec-check. She took pride in the fact that she left Tom in good standing with the church."

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18. Lee Grant, I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir

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The actress says she was being romanced by Warren Beatty at a party in 1975 when "I saw Warren's eyes attach themselves to something in the distance. I turned around and saw in the next room, the dining room, Dolly Parton, quietly sitting at the table, alone, scribbling on a pad. In an instant, I could feel myself dropped as this new yummy dish was making Warren's mouth water."

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17. Barbara Walters, Audition: A Memoir

Audition: A Memoir (5/5/2009)by Barbara Walters
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The legendary journalist describes behind-the-scenes machinations at The View: "The premise of The View is that of a team working together, but for Rosie, it was more like Diana Ross and the Supremes, as little by little she took over."

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16. Jane Fonda, My Life So Far

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The actress looks back at her marriage to Roger Vadim: "Then one night, he brought home a beautiful red-haired woman and took her into our bed with me. She was a high-class call girl employed by the well-known Madame Claude. It never occurred to me to object. I took my cues from him and threw myself into the threesome with the skill and enthusiasm of the actress that I am. If this was what he wanted, this was what I would give him — in spades."

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15. Keith Richards, Life

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The Rolling Stones legend remembers falling in lust with Anita Pallenberg on an epic road trip to Morocco: "In the back of the Bentley, somewhere between Barcelona and Valencia, Anita and I looked at each other, and the tension was so high in the back seat, next thing I know she's giving me a bl-- job… For a week or so it's boinky, boinky, boinky, down in the Kasbah."

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14. Corey Feldman, Coreyography: A Memoir

Coreyography (10/29/13)by Corey Feldman
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The actor discusses what he called the pervasive problem of pedophilia in Hollywood: "I stood up and said there is a bigger problem, that I'd lost Corey [Haim] and that I didn't want to see any more kids lost to these sick perverts."

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13. Alec Baldwin, Nevertheless: A Memoir

Nevertheless: A Memoir (4/4/2017)by Alec Baldwin
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When filmmaker John McTiernan told Baldwin that Paramount was negotiating with Harrison Ford to replace him as Jack Ryan in the Jack Ryan movies, "John told me he spoke with Ford and asked him if he was aware that Paramount was in an active negotiation with me. Ford's reply, according to John, was 'F--- him.'"

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12. Caitlyn Jenner, The Secrets of My Life

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In her transition memoir, Jenner says she was upfront with Kris about everything when they met. "All I know is I told her there had been a woman inside me all my life. I told her I dressed as a woman, and I did it several times in front of her. I also told her I had been in hormone therapy. It was obvious that the hormones had caused something — two somethings. To me they were breasts, size 36B. To Kris, they were man boobs caused by my being out of shape."

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11. Anne Heche, Call Me Crazy: A Memoir

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The actress reveals she had split personalities. "No one in L.A. had any idea that I had completely split from myself and become another entity inside called Celestia. No one could tell from the way I walked or talked that I was from the fourth dimension. And certainly, no one had any idea that I was getting messages from my planet every day."

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10. Clive Davis, The Soundtrack of My Life

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With dish on Kelly Clarkson, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Kenny G, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, and Britney Spears, it's hard to pick a single anecdote from the music mogul's memoir — but this one about Janis Joplin will do. "'You know what Janis would really like to do?' her manager asked. 'She thinks it would be only fitting and proper that she ball you to cement the deal. That would be her way of showing this is a more meaningful relationship.'" (Davis respectfully declined.)

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9. Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

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The lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is frank about addiction: "Once you put that first drug or drink in your body, you don't have to worry about the girlfriend or the career or the family or the bills. All those mundane aspects of life disappear. Now you have one job, and that's to keep chucking the coal in the engine, because you don't want this train to stop. If it stops, then you're going to have to feel all that other s---."

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8. Debbie Reynolds, Make 'Em Laugh: Short-Term Memories of Longtime Friends

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"One day, I went over to [comedian] Buddy and Sherry Hackett's house to pick up my children, Carrie and Todd, after school. While our kids played in the next room, Buddy put one hand up my skirt and the other down my blouse at the same time. I had never known anyone so rude or sexually crazy. He thought it was funny. I didn't. I told him off, but I should have slugged him. Maybe I didn't because the children were so close by."

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7. Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

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Prince's first wife recalled the musician's alleged drug use: "I want to be clear. In all the years we were together, I never actually saw Prince doing drugs. He didn't want me to see it… But there were a few disturbing incidents that happened when we were together…occasions when he told me he was 'sick' or that he had a 'migraine.' Looking back, I can see it was something else. I didn't see it then. Maybe because I didn't want to."

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6. Drew Barrymore, Little Girl Lost

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The actress began experimenting with alcohol and drugs at a shockingly early age: "When I was ten and a half, I was sitting in the back seat of a car driven by a friend's mother. She started smoking pot. I'd wanted to try marijuana for a long time, but I was afraid that if I asked, she'd say, 'No way, Drew. You're too young.' However, she offered me some and I said, 'Sure, I'll try it.'"

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5. Richard Burton, The Richard Burton Diaries

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The actor on his then wife Elizabeth Taylor: "Elizabeth is an eternal one-night stand. She is my private and personal bought mistress. And lascivious with it."

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4. Mackenzie Phillips, High on Arrival: A Memoir

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The One Day at a Time actress allegedly had a years-long incestuous relationship with her dad: "If sex happened between a father and a daughter, and nobody protested, there was no problem. If it felt good, it could be done, and if nobody put a stop to it, it could happen again, and again, as often and whenever it was convenient for him."

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3. Janice Dickinson, No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel

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The supermodel remembers Liam Neeson...fondly: "He unzipped his pants and an Evian bottle fell out. It was insane! Wouldn't you just go gaga? He was amazing!"

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2. Ozzy Osbourne, I Am Ozzy

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He's every bit as outrageous as you might expect in his memoir — especially when he recalls biting off the head of that bat onstage: "My mouth was instantly full of this warm, gloopy liquid, with the worst aftertaste you could ever imagine."

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1. Anjelica Huston, Watch Me: A Memoir

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In the second volume of her memoirs, the actress alleged she was beaten by then boyfriend Ryan O'Neal in the 1970s: "He turned on me, grabbed me by the hair and hit me in the forehead with the top of his skull," she wrote.

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