Oh, hello. No intro music, no intro. It's just me. For the past year, I've been alluding to the fact that something happened to my memoir and that I would tell you what it was that happened when the book was closer to coming out and

the book comes out on June 4th.

So here we are.

Here's what happened.

Right before the book went to print.

So it was fully completed, a fully done manuscript.

I was told I had to delete the entire story of the domestic violence I experienced when I was very, very young.

And what happened in that relationship was so intense, it has shaped me, it has shaped the

entirety of who I am for better or for worse. Just kidding, definitely for the worse. So when they told me to delete every

mention of it from my memoir, I refused. Telling that story was the main reason I'd even wanted to write the book.

Not to mention, structurally, the domestic violence story was the first chapter and the last chapter and some parts in the middle.

It was the entire structure, the entire storytelling structure. The entire storytelling structure.

The first chapter covered what happened when I was younger.

And the last chapter picked up exactly 10 years later when it all came back into my life again.

So 10 years after that relationship,

after that first time we stood in court together,

I was on stage performing in a comedy show

at a theater I worked at and a sheriff came into the theater

building to subpoena me back across the country to that very same little courthouse in the desert and I was being

subpoenaed back to reverse what had been decided. My ex-boyfriend, an extremely tall blonde blue-eyed

athlete, had stated in his letter to the court that he wanted to become a cop.

There was no point in writing a memoir about my life

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