SNL alum Laraine Newman releases her memoir as a nine-hour audiobook

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Newman, one of the original members of the Not Ready for Primetime Players, has released her memoir, May You Live in Interesting Times, through Audibile with details of her drug addiction when she was hired by Saturday Night Live. "There are lots of drugs, sex and famous names thrown about in the book, but it isn’t all laughs and glamour," Bruce Haring says of the audiobook. "Newman struggled with the demons of depression, addiction, and self-doubt along the way, and after her five years at SNL ended in 1980, struggled to cope. The story does have a happy ending. She resumed working in film and television, and has adopted long-term sobriety and parenthood. She reinvented herself as a voiceover actor and has found a thriving career working on such animated vehicles as Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Despicable Me, Inside Out, Shrek, and Minions." Meanwhile, Newman says "I really don’t like memoirs that sugarcoat things," adding that "the raison d’être for the memoir changed many times. I had impressions about myself I wanted to justify, which is no way to write a book.”