Celebrity Memoirs: Stars Reveal Life Stories in Tell-All Books

On Feb 21, 2025

You may think you know everything there is to know about your favorite celebrities, but as these much-anticipated memoirs, tell-alls and tomes prove, some of their deepest, darkest secrets have yet to be revealed. Find out which Hollywood stars are opening up like never before!

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Harper Collins

Cher

Turning back time! Part one of Cher‘s memoir series covers everything from finding fame and falling for Sonny Bono to feeling “trapped” in their “loveless” marriage. “I was dizzy with loneliness,” writes the singer. Better believe book two (due out November 19) will be just as brutally honest.

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Celebrity Memoirs Stars Reveal Their Life Stories in Their Books

Jeremy Renner

Jeremy Renner lived to tell the tale! In 2023, the Avengers: Endgame star almost lost his life in a snowplow accident that left him with a collapsed lung, pierced liver and 38 broken bones. His debut memoir, My Next Breath (April 29), serves as “a testament to the human spirit and its capacity to endure, evolve, and find purpose in the face of unimaginable adversity,” says Macmillan Publishers.

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Scheana Shay

Writing My Good Side (July 22) was “both cathartic and healing,” notes Vanderpump Rules alum Scheana Shay. “I surprised even myself with the stories that bled out onto these pages … details of my life that I’ve never shared, not even with some of my most inner circle. Until now.”

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Naomi Watts

In the recently released Dare I Say It, the actress shares everything she wishes she’d known about menopause. “I hope you find some useful tips and advice, as well as a few laughs,” says Naomi Watts, who included a hilarious yet heartfelt anecdote about the first time she slept with now-husband Billy Crudup.

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Tina Knowles

What was it like raising two superstars? Matriarch (April 22) chronicles the life of Beyoncé and Solange’s mother, Tina Knowles, from her childhood to bringing up kids of her own. “My daughters needed to know where they came from in order to know where they were going,” says the designer.

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Brooke Shields

Age ain’t nothing but a number! Brooke Shields, The Blue Lagoon beauty, has “never felt better or more confident” than she does now, and she hopes that her latest memoir, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, which hit shelves in January, makes other women of a certain age “feel empowered seen and hopeful.”

Source
Las Vegas News Magazine