Christina Applegate got candid about her tumultuous childhood and young adult years in an interview with Good Morning America, and broke down in tears as she shared insight into the struggles laid out in her upcoming memoir.
The Dead to Me actress is set to reveal all in her memoir You With the Sad Eyes, which will drop on March 3, and detailed that she wanted others going through the same thing to feel “less alone”.
“It’s been a long time in the making of, just over my entire life, talking to my friends or therapists or whatever, and they’re like, ‘You should write this down.’ And I’m like, ‘Well, I do.’ I have my journals,” Christina shared of her memoir on the show.
“Those things that I wrote in those diaries and my journals were locked in a box. I never wanted anyone to see them, and for some reason I was like, ‘All right, let’s open it up.'”
The 54-year-old revealed that the memoir contained details of her past experiences of abuse, including an abusive relationship in her younger years. “I know there’s a lot of people who have been abused,” she said as tears sprang to her eyes. “I’ve lived really hard times, and I just felt like, ‘I’m here for you.'”
She went on to explain why it was so difficult for her to leave her abusive situation. “You’re told a lie. And at some point, you just…you’re either so scared or you just believe it, that you’re not worthy enough for any other kind of love.”
© Getty ImagesChristina added that she wanted to share her story to help others understand the nuances of abuse. “I know how many women get themselves into an abusive relationship, and society says, ‘Well, I’m a strong woman, I would’ve gotten out’, and you know what? No.”
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The Married…With Children star is hoping to help others feel less alone with the release of her memoir, as she said on GMA. “There’s people going through some dark crap all the time, and they feel alone. I felt alone.”
“I still feel alone, in the sense that there’s this whole thing that we all want to feel understood. What does that feeling of being understood feel like? I don’t know. I’d like to just feel less alone,” she added.
© Getty ImagesChristina was also subjected to childhood abuse, with her female babysitter sexually assaulting her when she was five years old. She and her mother, Nancy Priddy, faced physical abuse from her mother’s boyfriend, and Nancy battled a heroin addiction during Christina’s childhood.
© FilmMagicChristina rose to fame in the late ’80s thanks to her starring role in Married…With Children, where she played the beautiful yet ditzy Kelly Bundy. She detailed in her memoir how fame severely impacted her body image, and shared how she “didn’t eat” for 20 years to cope.
“It was awful. It was like the standard that I placed upon myself,” she said. “As my fame grew, my self‑esteem shrank. I wished someone would notice, but when you’re a celebrity, your life looks like a cakewalk. My sad eyes were crying, but no one could see.”
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