Minka Kelly | Tell Me Everything

AMAZON Description:

“A timely, urgent portrait of working-class American women.”

―Gabrielle Union

In her highly anticipated memoir Tell Me Everything, Minka Kelly shares a story as powerful as it is page-turning.

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 the pages of this book, which ultimately tells a story of triumph over adversity, and how resilience and love are all we have in the end.

Bing GPT-4 Summary (note how it just quotes verbatim some of the Amazon text):

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Tell Me Everything: A Memoir, is a 2023 memoir by American actress Minka Kelly. It was published on May 2, 2023, by Henry Holt and Company. In the memoir, Kelly discusses her childhood, relationships, personal struggles and rise to fame.

Kelly reveals that she was raised by a single mother who worked as a stripper and struggled with addiction. She and her mom moved around the country frequently, living in various apartments, friends’ houses and even storage units. She reconnected with her father, Aerosmith’s Rick Dufay, when she was a teenager and eventually moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

She also shares her experiences of working on popular TV shows such as Friday Night Lights and Euphoria, as well as her involvement in humanitarian causes such as wildlife conservation and women’s empowerment. She reflects on the challenges and joys of being a woman in Hollywood, as well as the lessons she learned from her past traumas and mistakes.

The memoir is a story of resilience, hope and healing, as Kelly shows how she overcame adversity and found her voice and purpose in life.