The Friday Night Lights star writes in her new memoir about the shame of how she grew up and what she learned from her 'toxic' relationship with her costar.
, that long before she got her big break in, her mother—who faced domestic violence and addiction issues—often toted her along to gigs at Los Angeles strip clubs to try to keep food on the table.“If she made a lot of money that night, we’d go grocery shopping at 2 a.m.,” the actressin an interview about the book. “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.
By age 17, Kelly says, she was performing at peep shows at an adult video store in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to try and support herself. She opens the book with this information to get it out of the way. “I started with the scariest part,” she said. “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.
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