The actress’ new memoir Tell Me Everything will be released in early May. In an exclusive interview, she opened up about the book and her chaotic childhood.

As her memoir will be published soon, Minka Kelly exclusively opened up about the book to People. The actress addressed her turbulent childhood experiences, her relationship with her mother, poverty, and former toxic relationships.

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“I spent a lot of my youth wishing my mom was something she wasn’t, wishing she was like the other moms,” she told the outlet. “I only was able to really appreciate how special she was when I got much older. In fact when it was maybe a little too late.” Minka continued.

Minka Kelly Tell Me Everything Memoir

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As the outlet mentions, Kelly addressed many traumatic experiences from her early childhood in her memoir. She opened up about her mother’s job, the poverty they lived in and the time she had spent in strip club in Los Angeles, while her mother was working there. According to the article, her mother died in 2008 after being diagnosed with cancer.

“If she made a lot of money that night, we’d go grocery shopping at 2 a.m.,” Mika said. “My childhood was colorful and chaotic, unstable and inconsistent, unpredictable and hard a lot of the times. But the silver lining is that it made me a very adaptable person.”

In her memoir, Minka Kelly also opened up about her adult dancing performances from her teenage years. “The part that I carried the most shame about, the part that I felt the most embarrassed of, the part that I hid my whole life, and the part that I’ve had people make me feel bad about. And I felt like that was just where I had to be the most brave.” she told People.