The story has
been written and told more times than you can count; a gorgeous teenager flees
a troubled childhood and lands in Hollywood. The handwriting is clearly on the
wall, this won’t end well!
The story
includes all of the usual suspects you expect in a Hollywood story; ego-fueled
actors, directors and producers, millionaires and billionaires, rock stars and
super models. Add a heaping helping of alcohol, drugs and addictions, mix with
a handful of the usual hangers-on and requisite trips to rehab and rehab and
rehab and rehab…you get the picture, and you have actress Claudia Christian’s
memoir, Babylon Confidential.
Christian
details her ongoing struggles with addiction that is at one turn familiar to
the point of being commonplace in Hollywood tales and in another heart
wrenching. While I don’t think the goal was to inspire folks struggling with
the demons of addiction, Babylon
Confidential does prove to be illuminating for family members or friends
who may be trying to assist those in tackling an addiction.
One of the
amazing things about Ms. Christian’s story is her ongoing survival in a churn
and burn industry and the fact that in an era where late twenty-somethings pass
themselves off as glee-ful high schoolers, a young Christian off played mature roles
many years her senior.
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