Holly Wainwright

during which she had lots of very well-documented struggles, as we would euphemistically call them.

Lots of serious health issues, like really serious health issues, but also chronic anxiety, mental health issues, addiction to prescription medication.

She had high-profile relationships break down.

She got cancelled for saying various levels of silly, too insensitive, too insulting things on the internet.

She did all kinds of things.

She lived...

the gamut of fame of that period.

And that's what this book's about.

She actually dedicates it at the beginning to all the famous women who didn't make it through fame, all the way from Marilyn Monroe to Janis Joplin to Caroline Flack to Amy Winehouse to all these people, because it's really the story of what fame does to you.

And just for that reason, even if you're not really into the Lena Dunham of it all, it's fascinating because you're in this life where she's got everything.

Because she has this massive success very quickly and it comes with money, money, money, status, status, status.

Every cool person in Hollywood wants to hang with her, work with her, go to parties with her.

It shows you what that's like from being quite a normal person

young creative person in New York who's like crashing on people's floor.

Because she comes from like an arty family, but not like, she's not an heiress or anything.

So like, you know, kind of being a relatively normal arty person in New York City to being, you know, the person that every A-lister wants to be around.

It's so interesting.

It is really good.

And like having, she has all these awful surgeries and then

But she's living in the Sunset Tower Hotel or whatever in LA, and it's like, so they delivered up the cling wrap I had to wrap around my middle on a silver tray.