In A Revealing New Book, The Comedian Opens Up About Her Parents, An Abusive Ex And Finding Love
I love Nora Ephron so much,” Amy Schumersays. But when she sat down to write herown personal essays, Ephron’s famous dictum about turning life into art wasn’ther model. “I’m not an ‘Everything is copy’ kind of girl,” says Schumer, 35. “I don’t want to hurt anyone.” Which doesn’t mean the star of Trainwreck and Inside Amy Schumer shied away from tough topics. In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, she writes of losing her virginity (it wasn’t consensual), an abusive boyfriend, her father’s struggles with MS and even her strained relationship with her mom, who left her dad for the father of Amy’s best friend. “For my mom I was like, ‘Read this whole thing,’” Schumer says. “Her only correction was that Hebrew school is on Sundays, not Saturdays.”
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