Happy birthday to this TV comedy icon.
March 2021 marked the debut of Newman's audio memoir,
, via Audible. In her memoir, which spans nine hours, the comedian talks about her career, her time on"Being an active drug user really undermines anybody's ability. And I think chronic drug users have a very negative outlook on the world," she said in a 2022."I was never one of those people who thought it was anybody else's fault but mine. I was the architect of my own adversity. I just wanted oblivion. I didn't want to think, and I didn't want to feel.
Newman told the outlet that it was important to her to be honest about her experiences in her audiobook. "I felt that in a lot of memoirs there's a pink bow on the end of the stories. I realized that my story is a happy ending. But I felt that it was necessary and important to be completely honest about my inner life," she said."I think that helps other people. It connects people when they read about someone's truth, their self-doubt, their depression, and their humiliating failures, which can be funny.