Just days before she joins Cyndi Lauper on the "True Colors" tour, Rosie O'Donnell will be among the nearly 1,000 authors to make an appearance this weekend at BookExpo America in New York. She will be speaking at a breakfast panel Sunday with novelists Alice Sebold and Ian McEwan. If she says something provocative )imagine that) I'll try and post about it over the weekend.
Her upcoming memoir, "Celebrity Detox," will provide an insider's perspective on her experiences on the show, as well as on the circumstances that led her to abandon her wildly successful talk show five years ago.
"celeb detox/is about leaving my show 4 yrs ago/and doing the view this year/its all in there," she wrote on her Rosie.com site this week.
According to EOnline.com, Rosie originally planned her book as a chronicle of how she became a fame junkie, then kicked the habit when she walked away from her Emmy-winning talk show to focus on her family. But when she decided to join "The View" last year, it became necessary to rework the book to reflect her return to entertainment.
Sheesh, the chapters about "The View" should be the most interesting!
The memoir's promotional materials describe it as "the admirably forthright story of O'Donnell's 1,098-day celebrity detox, brimming with the stuff of life—family, friends, and her soul-expanding journey from feeling lost to feeling found."
"Celebrity Detox" is due to hit shelves on Sept. 18.