How Y'all Doing? Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

by Leslie Jordan

I read somewhere once that our parents “did the best they could with the light they had to see with.”

One thing I have learned during my years in Hollywood is that no matter how famous a person is, they are still just a person. Since I figured that out, most stars have disappointed me with their ordinariness.

Poor me. Poor me. Pour me a drink.

There is no wealth, no rich upbringing, no inheritance. But what I was given is much more important than that, something that money cannot buy.

The thing about shame is that it is so selective.