Kerry Washington's new memoir is baring it all. In an interview with People magazine, she opens up about what it was like writing Thicker Than Water and sharing some intimate details of her private life with the public.
"I've been a very private person when it comes to the public, so I never thought that I would sit down and write a soup-to-nuts memoir about my life," the actress shared. "I can't believe I wrote it." But the book, she shared, was an act of transparency and vulnerability.
"There's a phrase, 'You're as sick as your secrets,'" Kerry explained as she spoke of her memoir. "I think there's some truth in that. There's so much healing and liberation in the truth and not feeling like we have to hide."
Throughout the book, she dives into details about having paralyzing panic attacks at the age of 7, being sexually abused multiple times by a peer during group sleepovers, having a romantic relationship with another girl during her teenage years, and experiencing an eating disorder in college. Kerry also opened up about getting an abortion, secretly getting married to her husband in 2013, and learning her dad wasn't her biological father just five years ago.
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Kerry shared that she felt tricked into writing her memoir. Her original plans were to write a book about all the things a character she played in a show for seven years taught her.
But when she learned about her parents' secret, it changed everything for her. "It just didn't feel honest to write about anything other than kind of the mental, emotional journey that I found myself on."
