‘Friday Night Lights’ star Minka Kelly digs deep into her childhood and relationship with her late mother, Maureen, in her new memoir.
in support of the book, with a mother who worked in Los Angeles as an exotic dancer and would sometimes bring a young Kelly backstage at the strip club while she worked.“My childhood was colorful and chaotic, unstable and inconsistent, unpredictable and hard a lot of the times. But the silver lining is that it made me a very adaptable person.”
In the memoir, Kelly will open up about “the part that I carried the most shame about, the part that I felt the most embarrassed of, the part that I hid my whole life, and the part that I’ve had people make me feel bad about.
“She’s already broken,” she says she remembers thinking. “What is the point of pouring salt on the wound? I’m fine. I just want to take care of her right now.”one on Mother’s Day in 2018 where she remembered wishing her mother were “like everyone else’s moms.” “It was a little too late when I realized that if I’m gonna blame her for the bad, I also have to blame her for the good,” she wrote. “And when I blame her for the good, I’m able to heal. If she were the mother I wanted her to be, I wouldn’t be me.”
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