Welcome to Celebrity Book Club.

This is a podcast that recaps and celebrates the memoirs of badass female celebrities

who have been torn down by tabloids, dissected by social media, and faced heartaches and

triumphs and come out of it all even stronger.

I'm your host, Chelsea Devantes, I am a writer, comedian, and filmmaker, and this week

we are book clubbing Casey Wilson's memoir, which is going to come out on May 4th and

it is titled The Reckage of My Presence.

Such a good title.

This book is so good that I was actually in the middle of a script that was due and

I was in the middle of reading Sally Field's book for this podcast when I was given a

copy of Casey's book and I casually opened it and then I couldn't put it down and I finished

it all in one sitting to the detriment of my own life.

I told Casey she ruined my life with her amazing book.

And so I am so excited to discuss her book.

I knew I had no one to blame but myself that this had all been my choice because I was

capable of making choices and I had been making some bad ones.

Heading home in rush hour traffic late for dinner with my son I heard a voice.

A small voice at first so small I barely knew where it was coming from but it was telling

me something.

It was my voice and it was telling me just because someone says they know something

doesn't mean they do or that it's right for me and this incessant searching had brought

me further afield from my north star which was what I was paying people handsomely supposedly

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