Tell Me Everything
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4.3 • 292 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
This program is read by the author.
"Kelly is so piercingly honest, you just want to reach out and give her a hug...It’s totally gripping: I couldn’t take my earbuds out." —Vulture
"Kelly reads the book with grace, even when she gets to the tough moments, and you’ll walk away afterward with your jaw on the floor." —Shondaland
“A timely, urgent portrait of working-class American women.”
—Gabrielle Union
Minka Kelly takes listeners behind the shiny silver-screen facade and reveals just how good an actress she really is.
Fans know her as the spoiled, rich cheerleader Lyla Garrity on Friday Night Lights or as the affluent, mysterious Samantha on the HBO megahit Euphoria. But as revealed for the first time in these pages, Minka Kelly’s life has been anything but easy.
Raised by a single mother who worked as a stripper and struggled with addiction, Minka spent years waking up in strange apartments as she and her mom bounced around the country, relying on friends and relatives to take them in. At times they even lived in storage units. She reconnected with her father, Aerosmith’s Rick Dufay, and eventually made her way to Los Angeles, where she landed the role of a lifetime on Friday Night Lights.
Now an established actress and philanthropist, Minka takes this next step in her career as a writer. She has poured her soul into this audiobook, which ultimately tells a story of triumph over adversity, and how resilience and love are all we have in the end.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Remarkably raw and utterly candid, Minka Kelly’s memoir explores the effect her difficult upbringing has had on her life. The Titans actress details a childhood spent bouncing from one home to another with her addict mother, enduring abuse and mistreatment from the men who came in and out of their lives. Kelly openly discusses the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse she suffered, as well as the trauma of a childhood spent in strip clubs (including a stint working at a peep show as a teenager). Fascinatingly, Kelly’s experiences also offer her a unique lens through which she can now view some of her most unfortunate Hollywood stories, like a creepy interaction with Harvey Weinstein and her toxic affair with Friday Night Lights co-star Taylor Kitsch. Her measured narration underscores the conflicts with her past she still carries, but ultimately, Tell Me Everything is a refreshingly honest listen about coming to terms with trauma.
Customer Reviews
Woah!
Really extraordinary story that at times was hard to stomach, but incredibly impressed by her resilience to keep moving forward and still love and compassion for the people around her.
wrecked & hopeful
I don’t love reading. I have a hard time or lose interest quick, but then a friend had sent me an interview with Minka Kelly with Drew Barrymore. I recently saw her on Ransom Canyon & remembered her from Friday Night Lights. I knew nothing about her upbringing, but saw she had a book. I researched her a bit & was surprised to see it sounded rough. I think this is the first book in years… literally… that I couldn’t stop listening to. I finished it in a weekend. I was so invested, sobbing periodically because I was gutted with empathy & understanding. I’ve been processing my own pain & cycles of abuse, etc… I have no idea how I’m going to make it to the other side yet, but Minka…you have me a deeper sense of hope.
Let’s Grab a cup and chat
At the end of this book I felt I had just formed a lasting and strong friendship with someone I never met. Her openness and authenticity was refreshing and even though our paths are very different her story reminds us we are not alone in our struggles. I found myself laughing and tearing up. Highly recommend…