Christina Applegate’s debut memoir, You With the Sad Eyes, was released on Tuesday, March 3, covering everything from her MS diagnosis and past abusive relationship to her long Hollywood career and several celebrity encounters. The 54-year-old actress used diary entries kept throughout her life to tell much of her story.
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Here are key takeaways:
- Applegate said she wrote the book so people would “feel less alone.” The memoir — published by Little, Brown and Company — covers her years in the public eye and “the painful moments the public didn’t see.”
- She revealed she got an abortion at age 19 in late April 1991 while in an abusive relationship and starring on Married … With Children. “I can’t have this baby because I have work to do to entertain this f***ing world,” she wrote in a diary entry at the time.
- Applegate chronicled abuse by an unnamed ex-boyfriend, including an incident at her grandmother’s home in Indiana where he allegedly grabbed her by the neck and later held a glass shard to it. A separate incident, in which he poured a bottle of tequila down her throat, led to their breakup.
- She wrote that she knew her first marriage to Johnathon Schaech wouldn’t last the moment she walked down the aisle in 2001. “I knew right then that this man was not it for me,” she wrote. They were divorced by August 2007.
- The book includes celebrity stories from her career, including leaving Brad Pitt at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards to go out with Sebastian Bach, briefly dating Anthony Kiedis and David Boreanaz and an alleged incident with late director Kim Manners.
- Applegate was diagnosed with MS in 2021 and has said she likely won’t work on-camera again. She married Martyn LeNoble in February 2013 and they have a daughter, Sadie.
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