Demi Moore decided to scratch deep into her most painful memories of hers and share them with the public through an autobiography. Perhaps motivated by the desire to close the dark episodes once and for all, what the actress surely did not imagine was that her revelations would unleash.
“I have had extraordinary luck in life: both good luck and bad luck. Writing it all makes me realize that a lot of it was very crazy, very improbable. But we all suffer, and we all succeed, and we can all choose how to support both," Demi wrote in Inside Out, a volume in which she spoke not only of her fight against addiction and the overdose that landed her in the hospital, something well documented. by the press in the United States, the actress also revealed the loss of an advanced pregnancy when she was 42 years old, the threesomes in which she participated, and a terrible episode she suffered in her adolescence: a rape when she was 15 years old by a man that he paid USD 500 to his mother.
And although Moore's memoirs have shaken up the Mecca of Cinema, it is not the first time that the biography of a famous person has shaken up Hollywood, especially if it is one of her established figures.
In 1981, Albert Goldman decided to write the story of Elvis Presley after four years of research, but under his pen, the "King of Rock" lost his image as a musical idol to become the man who, according to the author, was nothing more than a plagiarist in his beginnings and a person out of reality already in his last days.
Elvis's weight problems, his taste for costumes, and the singer's peculiarities also resonated in this book, the interpreter that he hid behind his promiscuity. For the author of the text, which can still be found for sale on the Internet today, "Elvis was a pervert."
“Every sordid aspect of the man once idolized as the King of Rock 'n' Roll is here in 598 pages of vivid detail: the drugs, the penchant for violence, the selfishness, the blind trust, the money-grubbing manager. ”said the New York Times review that year.
The dark side of Tom Cruise
In recent times, one of the biographies that had the greatest impact was Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, by Andrew Morton.
With an initial print run of 400,000 copies in the United States for its January 2018 release, the book touched not only on the actor's then-romance with Katie Holmes but also on his relationships with Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman.
According to the author, Holmes was chosen as Cruise's partner through an audition organized by the Church of Scientology and revealed that the leader of that cult, David Miscavige, accompanied Tom and Katie during their honeymoon in the Maldives.
Perhaps the most controversial revelation in Morton's book was that Cruise and Holmes' daughter Suri was conceived with the sperm of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology who died in 1986.
Holmes must have felt "she was in the horror film Rosemary's Baby, in which a young woman is impregnated with the devil's child," Andrew wrote.
Lady Diana's secrets
But it was another Morton book that had catapulted him into the world spotlight before the biography of Diana of Wales.
In Diana: Her True Story of Her -In Her Own Words Morton not only detailed the princess's stormy relationship with Carlos, but he also spoke of her suicide attempts and her struggle with eating problems.
Her book was based on the six audiotapes that Diana recorded beginning in May 1991. “She was absolutely miserable and felt like she was like a prisoner of the palace. She felt that she needed to speak. I put my headphones on, turned on the recorder, and this cascade of emotion came out. She was talking like a prisoner in a cell who only had a few minutes to tell the story, ”the author recalled about the first time he heard Lady Di's story.
