LIZ HAYES: THREE EX-HUSBANDS, A SECRET IDENTITY & A STALKER

The veteran storyteller is finally sharing some of her own tale

By the time she turned 40, 60 Minutes star Liz Hayes wasn't just a household name, she also had three failed marriages behind her.

Now, the TV host - whose autobiography I'm Liz Hayes: A Memoir is out this week - is finally opening up about her tumultuous relationship history.

"It was a crap time. Let's face it, these things are not great. And it's magnified. It becomes bigger than Ben Hur," says the star, who married her first husband, builder Brian Hayes, in the late '70s when she was just 21. They split in the mid-'80s around the time she scored the gig as co-host on the Today show in 1986.

"You're looking at yourself. You're reading about yourself. You're noting that the view of you is pretty grim, so you come away thinking I am pretty grim, I'm a bit of a failure on that front."