The actress was raised by a single mother, who worked as an exotic dancer. She details her traumatic upbringing in her upcoming memoir, “Tell Me Everything.”
Without money for childcare, Maureen — who died of cancer in 2008 — was often forced to bring her daughter to work at the Crazy Girls strip club in Los Angeles.
As a result, the “Parenthood” alum went to live with her abusive high school boyfriend, Rudy, and ended up getting pregnant. “Raise this baby together, how?” she writes. “With what money? What home? What insurance? I couldn’t imagine bringing a baby into what my mother brought me into. Absolutely not.
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