Sarah Shahi wrote her memoir herself, choosing every detail from her own life. She contrasts this with acting, where she performs someone else's words. Writing the book felt cathartic to her, and the personal meaning mattered more than how people would react to it.
Because every word here comes from my heart. You know, even the part about gas station fashion and how I choose to dress and why, whatever. Like, even something as light and surface as that came from the deepest, most sacred parts of myself to be able to put that out there. So it's very different than, you know, when I play a character on screen and I'm acting out somebody else's words. You know, this is mine. So if someone loves it or they hate it, it's me. But at the same time, the process of writing this book and the release, the cathartic release, was so valuable that it didn't matter to me, like, what the response was. I knew what it meant to me, and that was all I needed.
