18 Celebrities Whose Lives Are So Interesting, Fans Are Literally Begging Them To Write A Memoir

I emotion a bully personage memoir. Some my favorites see Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling and The Woman successful Me by Britney Spears. While it seems similar conscionable astir everybody successful Hollywood has a memoir these days, determination are inactive rather a fewer absorbing celebs who person yet to perpetrate their beingness stories to insubstantial oregon who passed earlier they could constitute one.

Here are 18 of their apical answers:

1. "Justin Bieber! On the surface, helium seemed to person grown up successful beforehand of our eyes with cameras connected his each move, but astir his full beingness has been flooded with rumors and conspiracies that helium has neither confirmed nor denied. It would beryllium absorbing to get his truths astir his beingness and fame consecutive from him."

Justin has been subjected to galore rumors, particularly erstwhile helium was a teenager. In 2011, a 19-year-old pistillate sued him, claiming that helium slept with her backstage astatine a performance the twelvemonth anterior and was present the begetter of her newborn child. He would person lone been 16 astatine the clip of the alleged encounter. She aboriginal withdrew her paternity case.

2. "Keanu Reeves. He seems to person gone done a batch and inactive remains humble."

Per Britannica, Keanu was calved successful Beirut, Lebanon. After his parents' divorce, helium lived successful Syndey, past NYC, past Toronto with his mother, who was a costume designer. According to People, successful 2000, helium and his woman astatine the time, Jennifer Syme, had a girl named Ava, who was stillborn. They broke up soon aft the nonaccomplishment but remained close. A small implicit a twelvemonth later, Jennifer died successful a car accident. In 2019, Keanu told the Guardian, "With immoderate character, the mode I deliberation astir it is, you person the relation connected the page, you person the imaginativeness of the director, and you person your beingness experience... I thought [my acquisition with bereavement] was 1 of the foundations of the relation for John Wick. I emotion his grief."

3. "Sir Daniel Day-Lewis would apt constitute an absorbing tome."

Daniel is known for his often utmost attack to method acting. For example, to prep for the relation of Gerry Conlon successful In the Name of the Father, helium spent 2 days successful a situation compartment without thing to devour oregon drink. In 2008, helium told the Guardian, "You person to learn. You request to recognize what it is similar to beryllium interrogated by 3 two-man teams implicit a play of 2 days. If an guiltless antheral signs a confession, which pisses distant his life, it is portion of your work to interaction connected wherefore a quality being would bash that. So my curiosity leads maine into those places. But I don't privation to marque excessively overmuch of the details. They are conscionable that — details. When you don't cognize from experience, oregon you can't research done the imagination, you amended bash immoderate benignant of applicable enactment that is astatine slightest going to stimulate the imagination, due to the fact that yet the full happening is conscionable an enactment of imagination."

And according to the Guardian, portion starring successful My Left Foot arsenic creator Christy Brown, who had cerebral palsy, Daniel had unit members propulsion him astir successful a wheelchair, assistance him, and spoonfeed him. Spending truthful overmuch clip successful the wheelchair caused harm to 2 of his ribs. He won his archetypal Oscar for the role.

Lorne has been successful complaint of Saturday Night Live since its inception successful 1975, speech from a little hiatus from 1980-1985. Fans of the amusement often speculate erstwhile he'll discontinue oregon who volition regenerate him, but helium has nary plans to leave. In 2024, helium told The Hollywood Reporter, "I deliberation the times, and besides determination are not galore web shows left, and this 1 has taken connected [an importance]. It's much astir keeping it connected people than thing else, and obviously, I truly emotion it. And each year, determination are much and much radical that I trust connected for different things, but, successful the end, you truly request idiosyncratic to say, 'This is what we're doing.' So, I don't truly person an answer; I just cognize that this is benignant of what I bash and arsenic agelong arsenic I tin support doing it, I'll support doing it. There’'s nary contiguous plan."

5. "Pedro Pascal!!! I stake helium has the champion stories!!"

Pedro was born successful Santiago, Chile. His parents, who became governmental refugees aft joining the absorption question against Augusto Pinochet's subject dictatorship, fled the state with their children and sought governmental asylum erstwhile helium was 9 months old. He told Orange Coast magazine, "It was the mid-'70s, and my parents were young and liberal. It was a unsafe time, and they were fortunate they got retired with their lives." Initially, they went to Denmark, past they moved to San Antonio, Texas. When Pedro was 11, they relocated to Newport Beach, California.

As helium told Interview Magazine, helium became adjacent friends with Sarah Paulson erstwhile they some attended NYU. When they were some moving arsenic actors, she supported him emotionally and, astatine times, financially. She told Esquire, "He's talked astir this publicly, but determination were times erstwhile I would springiness him my per diem from a occupation I was moving connected truthful that helium could person wealth to provender himself."

Paris is the girl of Michael Jackson, who died erstwhile she was lone 11. In 2017, she told Rolling Stone that, astatine 15, she dealt with cause addiction, depression, and suicidal ideation. For her sophomore twelvemonth and fractional of her inferior year, she attended a therapeutic boarding school. In a 2020 Instagram story post, she shared, "As a miss who besides went to a behaviour modification 'boarding school' for astir 2 years arsenic a teenager, and has since been diagnosed with PTSD due to the fact that of it, and proceed to person nightmares and spot issues, I basal with [Paris Hilton] and the different survivors."

7. "Nicole Kidman, and/or Katie Holmes."

Nicole and Katie person some been antecedently joined to Tom Cruise. Nicole was joined to him from 1990-2001. At the 2015 Women In The World conference, she said, "Out of my divorcement came enactment that was applauded, truthful that was an absorbing happening for me. That culminated successful winning an Oscar, and that caused an epiphany which was, 'This isn't the answer'. I was holding a golden statue, and I was the loneliest I'd ever been."

Per USA Today, determination has been speculation that Scientology, the religion that Tom and his 2 children with Nicole practice, played a portion successful their divorce. However, arsenic Glamour notes, successful 2013, Nicole reportedly said, "I've chosen not to talk publically astir Scientology. I person 2 children who are Scientologists — Connor and Isabella — and I utterly respect their beliefs."

Katie was joined to Tom from 2006-2012. Per The Hollywood Reporter, successful 2013, Tom Cruise sued Bauer Media for defamation implicit a communicative alleging he'd abandoned their daughter, Suri. Lawyers questioned whether oregon not helium believed Katie ended their matrimony "in portion to support Suri from Scientology. He answered, "Listen, I find that question offensive. I find it — those statements offensive. And similar with immoderate relationship, determination are galore antithetic levels to it. You know, I — I find it precise offensive. There is nary request to support my girl from my religion." The lawyers continued, "And Ms. Holmes has ne'er indicated successful immoderate mode that was 1 of the reasons she near you? … To support Suri from Scientology?" Tom replied, "Did she accidental that? That was 1 of the assertions, yes."

As Taylor told CMT Insider, erstwhile she was 10, a TV programme she watched astir Faith Hill inspired her to prosecute a state euphony career. Every day, she begged her parents to instrumentality her to Nashville, erstwhile they yet relented implicit outpouring break. She said, "I was 11 and I had this small demo CD — a karaoke CD of maine singing songs by Dolly Parton and the Dixie Chicks and LeAnn Rimes. And I marched up and down Music Row with these demo CDs, and I'd locomotion successful and manus them to the receptionist portion my ma and my small member were parked extracurricular successful a rental car." When things didn't crook retired the mode she imagined, she "went backmost to Pennsylvania and started penning songs and playing guitar."

At 13, she landed a improvement woody with RCA Records, and her household yet moved to Tenessee. Per the Telegraph, Sony besides contracted her arsenic a songwriter. At 14, she "genuinely felt that [she] was moving retired of time" and near some labels and acceptable up her ain showcase performance, which led to her signing with Big Machine Records. At 16, she released her debut album, and it was lone up from there.

Of course, Taylor has famously chronicled her relationships, friendships, and different beingness experiences (such arsenic dealing with bullies and moving to NYC) successful her songs. Some of the astir defining narratives of her vocation person been her feud with Kanye West and her decision to re-record her archetypal six albums aft the merchantability of her masters.

9. "Dove Cameron. She's specified an unthinkable idiosyncratic who's been done truthful overmuch successful her life, but she's precise strong, and I emotion her for it."

Dove experienced important nonaccomplishment during her Disney Channel days. She told the Armchair Expert podcast, "At the constituent that Liv and Maddie was airing and I was working, my begetter had taken his ain life. That's gonna impact immoderate kid, like, erstwhile you're 15 and that happens. And within, like, the aforesaid calendar year, we were in, like, 900 cardinal homes and, like, translated into each these antithetic languages. There was nary mode for maine to wrapper my caput astir it, recognize it, conceptualize it. Like, it was truly like, we were astatine his funeral, and then, like, connected Bainbridge Island, and past a mates months later, I was, like, astatine the Grove with radical asking maine to motion glossies. And I didn't cognize however to truly reconcile with that. It didn't deed maine that I was, like, a celebrated idiosyncratic until years later."

Per Teen Vogue, she changed her ineligible sanction to Dove, which was her father's nickname for her, successful grant of him.

Then, successful 2019, Dove's person and Descendants costar, Cameron Boyce, died astatine property 20. When she got a tattoo successful grant of him, she told Vogue, "My person Cameron passed distant a fewer months ago, and helium was starting this enactment called Wielding Peace. He wanted to get influential radical holding things that looked similar they were successful the signifier of a gun…but past it would beryllium thing creator oregon peaceful. He did it with a bouquet of flowers, actually. I deliberation that’s truly beautiful, and I’ve been trying to deliberation of a tattoo to get for him since helium passed. I conscionable felt that this 1 was truly appropriate."

In 2020, Dove felt pressured to come out publically aft fans accused her of "queerbaiting" due to the fact that she utilized an emoji of 2 women kissing to beforehand her song. She told Armchair Expert that she was "confused" by the disapproval and "hated" having to travel retired publicly. She said, "And also, astatine that time, I’d ne'er said it publicly, but each my friends, each my family, they knew I was queer...I conscionable hated that I had to accidental it. I had a feeling that radical were going to accidental I wasn't queer enough…I didn't truly person an contented being second-guessed, due to the fact that I genuinely was like, 'I cognize what I am.'"

10. "James Hetfield, bushed guitar subordinate and vocalist for Metallica. Went from being a janitor and working successful a sticker mill to being successful the biggest metallic set of each time."

According to Ultimate Classic Rock, James worked successful a sticker mill and arsenic a janitor aft graduating precocious school, spending his luncheon breaks moving connected opus ideas. Per the band's website, the aforesaid twelvemonth James graduated, helium met drummer Lars Ulrich done a paper ad. After recruiting bassist Ron McGovney and pb guitarist Dave Mustaine, the radical chose the sanction Metallica.

11. "Dua Lipa! Her parents and her sister's story, positive her relationships with celebrities."

Dua's parents, Anesa and Dukagjin Lipa, are from Kosovo, but they near the state amidst conflict. She told the Guardian, "So overmuch has happened successful my grandparents' lives and my parents' lives… When you effort to travel to it and grasp everything there, it's a lot...Once the Serbians came in, they wanted a batch of the historians to rewrite the past of Kosovo. To alteration it – that Kosovo was ever portion of Serbia and ne'er portion of Yugoslavia. And my gramps [Seit Lipa, the caput of the Kosovo Institute of History] was 1 of those radical who wouldn't, truthful helium mislaid his job, due to the fact that helium didn't privation to constitute a past that helium didn’t judge to beryllium true." In 1992, Anesa and Dukagjin relocated to London for refuge. They worked arsenic servers portion studying for caller careers.

Per People, Dua's small sister, Rina, is simply a erstwhile competitory dancer turned model/actor. As she told British Vogue, she was six erstwhile the household moved location to Kosovo. She said, "For the adjacent 8 years, I called the youngest state successful Europe home, dancing astatine the National Theatre of Kosovo and moving chaotic successful the Rugova mountains. Even though I moved backmost to England astatine 14, my formative years surviving successful the superior of Kosovo, Prishtina, are woven into who I am, similar threads successful a tapestry. My older sister, Dua, my younger brother, Gjin, and I inactive telephone it home."

And Dua Lipa is presently successful a relationship with Callum Turner, but she's dated respective different notable celebs. Most notably, she reportedly dated LANY vocalist Paul Klein for 5 months betwixt 2017-2018 and exemplary Anwar Hadid from astir 2019-2021.

12. "Dame Judi Dench. I privation she'd been capable to bash a associated tell-all with Dame Maggie Smith. It would beryllium adjacent parts hilarious and biting."

Maggie and Judi were friends from 1957, erstwhile they met successful an Old Vic theatre dressing room, until Maggie's decease successful 2024. They starred successful 5 movies together, including A Room with a View and Ladies successful Lavender. They besides did aggregate signifier productions together. Judi plants trees successful grant of her precocious friends, and connected the time of Maggie's funeral, the gardener brought Judi a portion of effect from Maggie's tree. She told the BBC, "Joe, who works for me, came in, and helium had 1 small crab apple. And truthful I had it successful my pouch astatine her funeral, which was a precise bully happening to have."

13. "Rob Thomas from Matchbox Twenty. I person seen a fewer interviews, and it sounds similar helium had an interesting, albeit troubled, childhood, and it would beryllium absorbing to work astir it."

According to People, Rob was calved successful Germany portion his dada was stationed successful the army, but the household relocated to Orlando erstwhile Rob was six months old. Two years down the road, his parents divorced, and Rob's ma took him and his older half-sister, Missy, to South Carolina to unrecorded with their grandma, who illicitly sold marijuana and moonshine astatine her roadside market. They bounced astir for a while, past erstwhile Rob was 12, his parent was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. He became her main caretaker, and 17-year-old Missy near location to get married. After entering remission, his ma adopted a enactment lifestyle, and Rob near location arsenic a teenager. He said, "I would sneak into [friends'] houses astatine nighttime and enactment successful their closets. Sometimes friends would permission the household car unfastened and fto maine slumber successful it."

At schoolhouse helium joined the chorus due to the fact that of a miss and started "writing truly cheesy emotion songs truthful [he] could play them to each the girls astatine parties." However, helium aboriginal dropped out. Per the LA Times, helium experienced homelessness for 3 years. He told Rolling Stone that helium " stole a batch of things," and helium spent 2 months successful jailhouse for stealing a Camaro.

However, according to the LA Times, helium kept playing music, and successful Orlando, helium connected with his aboriginal bandmates. After his archetypal band, Tabitha's Secret, broke up, shaper Matt Serletic introduced Rob, Paul Doucette, and Brian Yale to Kyle Cook and Adam Gaynor. The musicians formed Matchbox Twenty.

14. "Dame Emma Thompson, due to the fact that 1) I emotion her, and 2) she seems similar she's reached the constituent wherever she nary longer GAF astir what radical deliberation of her, and I aspire to beryllium that amazing."

During her Cambridge years, Emma's beingness was "completely changed" by the find of "Gilbert and Gubar's publication The Madwoman successful the Attic, which is astir Victorian pistillate writers and the disguises they took connected successful bid to explicit what they wanted to express." She was friends with chap histrion Simon McBurney. She told New York Magazine, "Yes, we some had cropped punk abbreviated reddish hair. And dyed it together, and wore these leather jackets and went astir connected a Honda 250, and were astir apt precise unpleasant...When Simon near assemblage and went to survey mime astatine the [Jacques] Lecoq School successful Paris, I followed him and did a precise absorbing people with a French clown called Philippe Gaulier connected his intellectualized conception of buffoonery."

She besides said, "I ever wanted to beryllium a comedian. I wanted to beryllium Lily Tomlin. American women were being comic mode earlier our batch started. I retrieve sharing a chamber with French and Saunders [the duo that created Ab Fab] astatine Edinburgh erstwhile we were each successful shows, and I was desperately successful emotion with idiosyncratic who lived with a ballet dancer. I said, 'I can't vie with a ballet dancer!' And they said, 'But you’re funny, and that's much, overmuch much attractive.' And of people they were wrong."

According to New York Magazine, Idina grew up the girl of a pajama salesperson begetter and a therapist mother. Her parents wouldn't fto her beryllium a kid actor, truthful erstwhile she was 15, she'd unreal to beryllium 18 and illegally thrust herself to enactment arsenic a wedding and barroom mitzvah singer. The NYU postgraduate was really a stone vocalist erstwhile she got formed successful Rent, wherever she met her archetypal husband, Taye Diggs. She had occupation uncovering footing successful her vocation until booking the starring relation arsenic Elphaba successful Wicked. The amusement launched Idina to Broadway icon status, and she and her costar, Kristin Chenoweth, were plagued by rumors of a backstage feud.

Two decades aft the amusement opened, Kristin addressed the feud rumors, telling Vulture, "After a definite magnitude of clip aft we opened, my ma was dealing with cancer. I was emotional, and I was reasoning astir immoderate different things. To me, determination was nary mode that I would triumph a Tony. Yes, it's the 2 girls arsenic leads. But it's Elphaba's story. I needed to woody with that portion of me. I was precise emotional. I tried to propulsion it out. I mean, if lone radical knew." Idina added, "Unfortunately, radical similar to bash that to women. They can’t beryllium supportive of 1 another. You person to enactment each this struggle successful there...We were bushed and highly supportive of 1 another. We'd been doing it for, earlier San Francisco, 3 years of workshops."

16. "Amanda Bynes. She indispensable person truly gone done immoderate things we don’t cognize about."

Amanda was a kid prima connected Nickelodeon, astir notably starring successful The Amanda Show. In 2013, aft a bid of ineligible issues and intelligence wellness issues, she was placed nether a conservatorship. Then, successful 2022, it was terminated with the enactment of her parents and her lawyer.

In a connection to People, Amanda said, "Following today's determination by the justice to terminate my conservatorship, I would similar to convey my fans for their emotion and good wishes during this time. I would besides similar to convey my lawyer and my parents for their enactment implicit the past 9 years. In the past respective years, I person been moving hard to amended my wellness truthful that I tin unrecorded and enactment independently, and I volition proceed to prioritize my well-being successful this adjacent chapter. I americium excited astir my upcoming endeavors — including my fragrance enactment — and look guardant to sharing much erstwhile I can."

17. "Mark Hamill. I person work immoderate of Carrie Fisher’s memoirs, and I deliberation Mark mightiness person had akin experiences."

In her memoir The Princess Diarist, Carrie revealed that, connected the acceptable of the archetypal Star Wars movie, she had an matter with costar Harrison Ford, who was 14 years older than her and married. Mark told The Hollywood Reporter, "I was truthful self-involved astatine that point, they could've been doing it successful beforehand of maine and I wouldn't person noticed. I was azygous and had my ain agenda."

A past narration turned him disconnected from dating different actors. He said, "If the narration doesn't past and you're connected a TV bid and you got 4 much seasons to go, it tin beryllium truly awkward. It happened to me. I was with a miss [Anne Wyndham] who was playing my sister connected a soap opera, General Hospital."

However, Mark wasn't azygous for long. Per the Spokesman-Review, a twelvemonth aft the archetypal Star Wars movie was released, helium joined dental hygenist Marilou York.

18. And finally: "Reneé Rapp! I emotion her, and she is amazing, and I deliberation she would person a batch for america to larn from and about."

Reneé won the 2018 National High School Musical Theatre Award and made her Broadway debut lone a twelvemonth later. She famously played Regina George successful Mean Girls: The Musical. However, she told the Guardian that the acquisition worsened her eating upset due to the fact that definite accumulation members would allegedly "say immoderate vile fucking things" astir her body. It reached the constituent that her parents flew to NYC successful an effort to person her to permission the role. In 2020, she moved to onscreen work, landing a starring relation successful The Sex Lives of College Girls.

She told Call Her Daddy, "The archetypal twelvemonth of doing College Girls was terrible. It sucked truthful bad, due to the fact that astatine the time, I was successful a heteronormative relationship, and I hated going to enactment due to the fact that I was like, 'I don't deliberation I'm bully capable to beryllium here. I don't deliberation I tin beryllium here. I don't deliberation I tin beryllium doing this'…and past I would travel home, and I would psyche myself out, literally...I called 1 of my friends and I was like, 'I americium straight, like, I deliberation I'm conscionable straight; I can’t bash this.' ...I was successful a panic constantly, and I wasn't [straight], but I was truthful freaked retired by the thought of my sexuality not being finite oregon radical laughing astatine me, oregon maine laughing astatine myself, that I hated the archetypal twelvemonth of filming."

Reneé announced her departure from the amusement successful 2023. Having antecedently identified arsenic bisexual, she came out arsenic a lesbian connected Saturday Night Live successful 2024. She told Them that the archetypal enactment was, "We request assistance from our small bisexual intern Reneé," but she asked writer Celeste Yim, "Can we alteration that 'bisexual' to 'gay'?" Reneé recalled, "They were truthful saccharine — and obviously, they were going to beryllium truthful sweet. But to me, I was reasoning astir being truthful acrophobic to publically alteration my identity. I didn't privation anybody to beryllium upset with me."

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