This was an incredible and incredibly difficult book to read. I didn’t know about this memoir until recently, but it has been out for fifteen years.

I mean, wow. I knew she had struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, but reading her struggles was a whole other level. I appreciate how candid she was in sharing her experience. I would love a follow up to this, if she was willing to write it, to catch up with her now, especially since Fuller House has been off the air for awhile now too.

My heart aches for the little girl that Jodie was. She knew what she loved to do, but feeling like she was missing out on a normal childhood sounds like it was just awful. I wonder if therapy had been less of a taboo thing in the 80s and 90s if it would have helped her deal with her internal conflict in a less destructive way.

The only thing that really bothered me, was that I prefer to read memoirs with my ears, but it seemed that Audible was the only way to get it. But I don’t think that 15 years on it is a surprise.

A quick but heartbreaking read. I would highly recommend this book, she did a great job on it, and her ghostwriter crushed.