Martha Stewart's Daughter Writes Tell-All About Mom: Juiciest Celeb Memoir?
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Alexis Stewart
In her new memoir, Alexis says mom Martha Stewart urinates with the door open, didn't cook, didn't greet trick-or-treaters and didn't even wrap Christmas presents for her daughter.
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Alexis Stewart
In her new memoir, Alexis says mom Martha Stewart urinates with the door open, didn't cook, didn't greet trick-or-treaters and didn't even wrap Christmas presents for her daughter.
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Mackenzie Phillips
In "High on Arrival," the "One Day at a Time" star claims that she had a consensual, years-long sexual relationship with her father, "The Mamas & the Papas" singer John Phillips.
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Ashley Judd
In her memoir released earlier this year, Judd says she was the victim of incest and abuse involving an unnamed family member. She also writes that she was exposed to sex early because of her mother Naomi's affairs.
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Carrie Fisher
In "Wishful Drinking," Princess Leia talks drug addiction, bipolar disorder and "turning a man gay."
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Linda Hogan
In her autobiography, Linda Hogan accuses ex-husband Hulk Hogan of using drugs, cheating on her and abusing her, noting that she was "afraid he would kill [her]." He denied the abuse claims.
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Keith Richards
In his memoir "Life," Richards reveals that "unbearable" Mick Jagger thought he was "bigger than the Stones" -- and accuses him of having a "tiny todger."
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Chelsea Handler
"My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands" is one of the most shocking celebrity memoirs we've ever read -- and definitely the funniest. "Vodka, Ecstasy and sleeping with midgets" included.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Schwarzenegger's autobiography will "touch upon" his recent breakup with Maria Shriver (which followed news that he had fathered a love child with a household employee). How could this one NOT be juicy?
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With daughters like these, who needs enemies? Martha Stewart's daughter Alexis Stewart airs her mother's dirty laundry in her new book, "Whateverland: Learning to Live Here," set to hit stores Oct. 18 -- including the fact that her domestic diva mom urinates with the door open.
"Mother always peed with the door open. I remember saying, 'You know, now I have friends over! You can't do that anymore! It's gotta stop! My friends' parents don't do it! Give me a break here! I don't feel like being embarrassed! It's exhausting! I'm a kid! Stop!'" Alexis, 46, says in the book, according to ABC News.
And despite her reputation as a domestic doyenne, Alexis says her mother didn't cook, didn't greet trick-or-treaters and didn't even wrap Christmas presents for her daughter. "Martha was not interested in being kid-friendly," she writes. "She would hand me things right before Christmas and say, 'Now wrap these but don't look inside." Here are a few more less-than-flattering excerpts from the book:
--"Halloween was also a grim affair: There were no costumes. There was no anything. We turned off all the lights and pretended we weren't home."
--"There was never anything to eat at my house. Other people had food. I had no food ... There were ingredients but no prepared food of any kind."
--"Martha does everything better! You can't win! If I didn't do something perfectly, I
had to do it again. … I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head."
--"My mother will occasionally complain that I don't invite her over for dinner. But can you blame me? Because, sometimes this is what will happen: Whatever I serve, she'll sip it, taste it, make a face and push it away."
The anecdotes seem to seal Stewart's reputation as a cold businesswoman, but there's nothing terribly shocking, until you get to this nugget: "A woman lived near us when I was little, had married someone very wealthy and very unattractive, and my mother actually told me when I was a small child, 'Now Alexis, if this ever happens, you make sure you have sex with somebody else to have their baby. Don't have his baby.'"
But despite seriously damaging her mother's already shaky reputation, Alexis says she'll defend her family against any critics. "I am, like, fisticuffs, you know, I'm ready," she writes. And she even dedicates her book to her mom: "Thanks in advance to my mother for not getting angry about anything written in this book."
From Alexis Stewart to Ashley Judd to Mackenzie Phillips, click through our slideshow and let us know: Who wrote the juiciest celebrity memoir?
"Mother always peed with the door open. I remember saying, 'You know, now I have friends over! You can't do that anymore! It's gotta stop! My friends' parents don't do it! Give me a break here! I don't feel like being embarrassed! It's exhausting! I'm a kid! Stop!'" Alexis, 46, says in the book, according to ABC News.
And despite her reputation as a domestic doyenne, Alexis says her mother didn't cook, didn't greet trick-or-treaters and didn't even wrap Christmas presents for her daughter. "Martha was not interested in being kid-friendly," she writes. "She would hand me things right before Christmas and say, 'Now wrap these but don't look inside." Here are a few more less-than-flattering excerpts from the book:
--"Halloween was also a grim affair: There were no costumes. There was no anything. We turned off all the lights and pretended we weren't home."
--"There was never anything to eat at my house. Other people had food. I had no food ... There were ingredients but no prepared food of any kind."
--"Martha does everything better! You can't win! If I didn't do something perfectly, I
had to do it again. … I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head."
--"My mother will occasionally complain that I don't invite her over for dinner. But can you blame me? Because, sometimes this is what will happen: Whatever I serve, she'll sip it, taste it, make a face and push it away."
The anecdotes seem to seal Stewart's reputation as a cold businesswoman, but there's nothing terribly shocking, until you get to this nugget: "A woman lived near us when I was little, had married someone very wealthy and very unattractive, and my mother actually told me when I was a small child, 'Now Alexis, if this ever happens, you make sure you have sex with somebody else to have their baby. Don't have his baby.'"
But despite seriously damaging her mother's already shaky reputation, Alexis says she'll defend her family against any critics. "I am, like, fisticuffs, you know, I'm ready," she writes. And she even dedicates her book to her mom: "Thanks in advance to my mother for not getting angry about anything written in this book."
From Alexis Stewart to Ashley Judd to Mackenzie Phillips, click through our slideshow and let us know: Who wrote the juiciest celebrity memoir?
Top Opinion
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cupcake 2011/10/03 18:31:41Mackenzie Phillips
+4Ok, let me think..... hmmmm, pee with the door open vs. Mackenzie having a sexual relationship with her own real biological father (including explicit drug use, rape..) pee vs.......ok, Mackenzie's is the most disturbing. Ashley Judd's sexual abuse by mother's boyfriends was pretty bad, Carrie Fisher very drunk, Arnold Schwarzenegger fathering a son who looks exactly like a young Aaaahnold....still Mackenzie
All I have to say is that we, as people, feed these kind of people who give us something to make a spectacle over, and it s sickening. I'm not even reading the text that's accompanying this question. I'm just disgusted.
I'm also really, really, really glad I'm none of these people.
SHE GOT ONE wright and that makes headlines lol YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN WhAT LENNON DID LOL
Look Martha Stewart was a working mom, she was starting and running an empire.... sacrifices need to be made. Its a shame she had children, that's why I commend Oprah for not having any.
Sometimes in life you need to make hard decissions and realize you can't have it all.
Plus, I'm not a huge Martha Stewart fan since she got into a fight with my aunt over a cottage.
Like I can tell my mom is crazy but I'll defend her if anyone else says it.
My mom is 5'1 and 105 lbs, I'm 5'4 and 145.... I'm still scared of my mom and there is no way I'd ever write any book to put her in a bad light. Thanksgiving dinner would be extremely ackward.
You have a great day too.
Rot in hell Courtney.
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