Sometimes, in arguments with girlfriends, she was the “asshole”. With the perspective that comes from writing about interactions from decades ago, Hough has realised she wasn’t always right. She says it was the opposite. “It’s an interesting, probably unhealthy process to think about yourself that much,” she says, “I’m so f_ sick of myself”. I ask Hough whether writing about her past was therapeutic. Each one told with the wit of David Sedaris, and the insight of Joan Didion. The “cable guy” essay is included in the book, among stories about a childhood spent in the cult that is The Family (AKA the Children of God, in which were born actors Rose McGowan and River Phoenix), and an adulthood spent in the cult that is America.

Hough’s experience of seeing “the American id in its underpants” opened many eyes to the bleak yet often hilarious minutiae of working class life in the US. She was working in a bar in Texas at the time (where Blanchett even went to visit Hough before recording the audiobook). I Saw the Worst of America,’ about her years as a cable technician, went viral. An essay Hough (pronounced “huff”) wrote for HuffPost in 2018, I Was a Cable Guy. To those familiar with Hough’s earlier work, this level of success may not seem like such a shock. The audiobook is going to be narrated – in part – by Cate Blanchett, who has always loved Hough’s writing.

Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing has received gushing praise from Elizabeth McCracken and Roxane Gay. Hough, who was born in West Berlin, is softly spoken for someone who says (and writes) “f_” so much. “I’ve been walking around like a f_ raw nerve,” says 44-year-old Hough, as I speak to her via Zoom, “I think I’ve probably been in a low-grade panic attack for about a month.”

Or, back even further, when she was growing up in a notorious doomsday cult. Of all the identities she’s had, one in which she’s met by gaggles of fans while on tour promoting her first book, a collection of personal essays called Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing, probably isn’t one she expected back when she was living in her car. Her latest incarnation, as a New York Times bestselling author, has come as a surprise. Hough has been (among other things) an airman in the US military, a bouncer at a gay club, a Starbucks barista, a dog groomer, and a “cable guy”. In a separate interview with the Hollywood Reporter that same year, Jackman shared that the rumors about him being gay had started to take a toll on his then-wife.“When people met me outside the bookstore it was surreal,” says Lauren Hough. “I do get frustrated for Deb, cause I see Deb go, ‘Ah, this is just crazy!'”įurness, 67, who was also present for the interview at the time, reportedly chimed in, “If he was gay, fine, he would say he’s gay.

“It’s, to me, not the most interesting thing about a person, anyway,” he said. In 2013, the “X-Men” star, 54, told Australia’s “60 Minutes” that he felt frustrated over the constant speculation, according to the Huffington Post. Hugh Jackman’s sexuality has been questioned throughout his career, but he and his now-ex-wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, were always ready to shut those rumors down. Hugh Jackman and estranged wife Deborra-Lee Furness ‘speak regularly’: Will ‘navigate’ split ‘together’ Hugh Jackman’s estranged wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, speaks out for first time after split Hugh Jackman takes a rainy-day stroll amid divorce and more star snaps Hugh Jackman shares iconic selfie with Taylor Swift, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds at Chiefs game

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