In her memoir, Chelsea Handler writes about peeling away coats of self-preservation, starting with a meltdown in her psychiatrist's office — her first tears in 30 years. (via hereandnow)
is a woman of many talents. You may know her from her late-night talk show,"Chelsea Lately," which aired from 2007 to 2014, or her Netflix documentary,"Chelsea Does," or her other show,"Chelsea" — or her five books." The book covers a wide swath of Handler's life — from the 2016 election to her crush on special counsel Robert Mueller.
Handler writes about a year of peeling away coats of self-preservation, starting with a meltdown in her psychiatrist's office — her first tears in 30 years. A large part of her journey, Handler says, was discovering that she lacked empathy. "I wanted to be a strong woman ... and never depend on anybody, and I thought that was because I was just strong. I didn't think it was a direct link to what happened at 9 years old.""It's a bit 'Sanford and Son.' … It was very clear from a very early age that this was not a traditional family. My father was a used-car dealer, which meant he was home all the time, and he sold cars out of our driveway. It's not like he had a business to go to.
"And our family was nontraditional, you know. We were always the family in the neighborhood that everybody kind of was like, 'Oh, God. Look at their driveway. Look at their used cars everywhere.' ... We grew up in a Jewish kind of materialistic part of New Jersey, and there was money being spent and shown in cars in terms of materialism. So, growing up, it was embarrassing.
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