2023 has seen a host of celebrity bombshells unveiled – direct from their own explosive memoirs.

Britney Spears’ bestselling memoir – The Woman In Me – has undoubtedly dominated stars’ autobiographies, unleashing the shock revelation that she had undergone an abortion after getting pregnant by Justin Timberlake.

Megan Fox’s poetry book – Pretty Boys Are Poisonous – revealed she had miscarried fiance Machine Gun Kelly’s baby – while John Stamos’ tome – If You Would Have Told Me – laid bare his childhood sexual abuse by a babysitter.

Elliot Page’s release Pageboy saw the star expose his previously clandestine romances with Kate Mara and  Olivia Thirlby.

As 2023 comes to an end, DailyMail.com looks back on the biggest bombshells from celebrity memoirs…

 

BRITNEY REVEALS ABORTION IN THE WOMAN IN ME

Britney Spears’ bestselling memoir – The Woman In Me – has undoubtedly dominated stars’ autobiographies, unleashing the shock revelation that she had undergone an abortion after getting pregnant by Justin Timberlake (pictured 2000)

The star claimed while she wanted the baby and ‘dreamed of having a family’ with Timberlake, he ‘wasn’t ready’ for the responsibilities of parenthood and thought the pair were too young

Britney Spears got pregnant by Justin Timberlake in 2000 with the singer undergoing an abortion because the N*Sync star ‘didn’t want to be a father.’

The Toxic hitmaker, 41, who dated Timberlake, 42, from 1999-2002, detailed the ‘agonizing’ decision to terminate the pregnancy in her memoir, The Woman In Me – after conceiving in late 2000 when the pair were both 19, DailyMail.com confirmed.

The star claimed while she wanted the baby and ‘dreamed of having a family’ with Timberlake, he ‘wasn’t ready’ for the responsibilities of parenthood and thought the pair were too young.

She wrote: ‘It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated.

‘He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young. I’m sure people will hate me for this, but I agreed not to have the baby.

‘I don’t know if that was the right decision. If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.’

The star said the abortion was ‘one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life’ and revealed she was raised ‘not to get an abortion’ due to religious reasons and what she had learned from her family.

Spears further details the aftermath of the ‘agonizing’ decision as she recalls the alleged moment Timberlake began ‘strumming the guitar’ as she lay ‘crying and sobbing’ on the bathroom floor having taken pills to end the pregnancy.

It’s claimed that Timberlake ‘thought maybe music would help’ comfort the Lucky singer.

 

MEGAN FOX MISCARRIED BABY GIRL WITH MGK

Megan Fox described suffering a devastating miscarriage with her fiance Machine Gun Kelly in her book of poetry Pretty Boys Are Poisonous (pictured 2021)

In the book, Megan writes about an ultrasound of a baby girl at 10 weeks and a day, and says: ‘maybe if you hadn’t… maybe if i had…’

Megan Fox described suffering a devastating miscarriage with her fiance Machine Gun Kelly in her book of poetry Pretty Boys Are Poisonous.

In the book, Megan writes about an ultrasound of a baby girl at 10 weeks and a day,  and says: ‘maybe if you hadn’t… maybe if i had…’

She continues, ‘I want to hold your hand / hear your laugh, but now / I have to say / goodbye,’ and later adds, ‘I close my eyes and imagine holding you tight against my chest as they rip you from my insides’.

Elsewhere in the book, she writes, ‘I will pay any price. Tell me please / what is the ransom / for her soul?’

The Transformers alum, 37, said she had ‘never been through anything like that before in my life’, as she opened up about the experience and about writing the book during an interview on Good Morning America.

‘It was very difficult for both of us,’ she explained. ‘And it sent us on a very wild journey together and separately, and together and apart, and together and apart, and together and apart, trying to navigate, “What does this mean? Why did this happen?'”

Megan said the pregnancy loss was made even more difficult as she had already successfully welcomed three sons with her ex ex Brian Austin Green, 50: Noah Shannon, 11, Bodhi Ransom, 9, and Journey River, 7.

 

ELLIOT PAGE AIRS OUT SECRET ROMANCES WITH KATE MARA/OLIVIA THIRLBY

Elliot Page revealed he had a secret relationship with Kate Mara after he came out as gay in 2014 – and while she was dating Max Minghella – in memoir Pageboy (pictured 2017)

The Oscar-nominated Juno star, 36, who was once known as Ellen Page and came out as transgender in 2020 , details in his memoir Pageboy how he and Kate, 40, struck up a romance as he filmed X-Men: Days of Future Past and that Kate was ‘in love with two people’

Ex; Elliot said Max was supportive of Kate exploring their relationship -which was kept a secret from the world and says Kate told him: ‘I never thought I could be in love with two people and now I know I can’ (pictured 2014)

Elliot Page revealed he had a secret relationship with Kate Mara after he came out as gay in 2014 – and while she was dating Max Minghella – in memoir Pageboy.

The Oscar-nominated Juno star, 36, who was once known as Ellen Page and came out as transgender in 2020, details in his memoir Pageboy how he and Kate, 40, struck up a romance as he filmed X-Men: Days of Future Past and that Kate was ‘in love with two people.’

Kate and Max went their separate ways in 2014 after four years of dating. She is now married to actor Jamie Bell, with whom she shares two children.

In an excerpt from his memoir Page wrote: ‘The first person I fell for after my heart was broken was Kate Mara. She had a boyfriend at the time, the lovely and talented Max Minghella.’

‘This was right after I’d come out as gay [in 2014] and it was a time of exploration and also heartbreak. I think my relationship, or whatever you want to call it with Kate, very much encapsulates a certain dynamic that I consistently found myself in, which was falling for people that — I think a lot of us do this — who aren’t fully available.

‘And the sort of safety in that and the highs and the lows and the serotonin bump, and then it goes away. And I think that is definitely a pattern in my life.”

‘I think the love and care that we have for each other is it’s very own special thing. Separate from the intimacy that I write about.’

And the revelations didn’t stop there. In his memoir Page also claimed he had sex with Juno co-star Olivia Thirlby ‘all the time’ while they filmed the hit 2007 movie (pictured together in 2007)

Elliot said Max was supportive of Kate exploring their relationship -which was kept a secret from the world and says Kate told him: ‘I never thought I could be in love with two people and now I know I can.’

The pair played a couple in movie My Days of Mercy which premiered in 2017 and was released in 2019 – this was made after their romance.

And the revelations didn’t stop there. In his memoir Page also claimed he had sex with Juno co-star Olivia Thirlby ‘all the time’ while they filmed the hit 2007 movie.

Page said he was instantly attracted to Thirlby, now 36, who played Juno’s best friend Leah in the film, as he recounted their fling,

He wrote: ‘I was taken aback the moment I saw Olivia Thirlby. She seemed so much older, capable, and centered.

‘Sexually open, far removed from where I was at the time. But the chemistry was palpable, it pulled me in.’

Page – who played pregnant teen Juno MacGuff in the film – recounted how they started ‘sucking face’ in a hotel room after Thirlby confessed she was ‘really attracted’ to him – to which Page reciprocated her feelings.

He wrote: ‘It was on. I had an all-encompassing desire for her, she made me want in a way that was new, hopeful.’

He added it was one of the first times someone would make him orgasm.

Page – who played pregnant teen Juno MacGuff in the film – recounted how they started ‘sucking face’ in a hotel room after Thirlby confessed she was ‘really attracted’ to him – to which Page reciprocated her feelings (pictured)

Page said he and Thirlby began having sex ‘all the time’, writing: ‘Her hotel room, in our trailers at work, once in a tiny, private room in a restaurant … We thought we were being subtle. Being intimate with Olivia helped my shame dissipate. I didn’t see a glint of it in her eyes and I wanted that — done feeling wretched about who I am.’

Around the time Page and Thirlby filmed Juno, the pair were slated to star as the title characters in Jack & Diane – playing two young women who fall in love -but both dropped out before production, and the cast was replaced numerous times over.

Thirlby publicly came out as bisexual in 2011 – she has been married to Jacques Pienaar since 2014.

Elliot publicly came out as a transgender man in December 2020 but revealed he began ‘feeling like a boy’ from the age of nine.

 

JOHN STAMOS REVEALS CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE

John Stamos revealed he was sexually abused as a child aged ’10 or 11′ by his former babysitter in memoir, If You Would Have Told Me

Childhood: The Full House actor, 60, said he had ‘packed away’ the trauma of the alleged abuse for decades before writing his memoir – If You Would Have Told Me

John Stamos  revealed he was sexually abused as a child aged ’10 or 11′ by his former babysitter in memoir, If You Would Have Told Me

The Full House actor, 60, said he had ‘packed away’ the trauma of the alleged abuse for decades before writing his memoir  forced him to address his past.

Stamos wrote he would ‘play dead’ in hopes the abuse would stop.

‘I mean, I knew, it was always in the back, and I do so much advocacy for the [survivors]. I felt like, I remembered it slightly. It has always been there, but I packed it away as people do, right?’

He said he never told anyone of the alleged abuse, writing: ‘I think I told myself, like, ‘”Ah, it’s girls, man.” It was like you’re playing dead so they’ll stop. But it wasn’t totally aggressive. I don’t know, it was not good.’

The You star said he had first thought about his past while writing an acceptance speech for an award he once received for his advocacy for abused children.

Stamos wrote he would ‘play dead’ in hopes the abuse would stop. ‘I mean, I knew, it was always in the back, and I do so much advocacy for the [survivors]. I felt like, I remembered it slightly. It has always been there, but I packed it away as people do, right?’

He is known for his charity work and has been an ambassador for charity ChildHelp for more than two decades.

Stamos writes: ‘I started to write it, and that’s when it really came out. And then I thought, “No, tonight is not about me. It’s about the kids. I’m going to pack it away again until the right moment.” Otherwise, I’m a phony f***. It’s like, “Come on.”

‘It was a page or something, but I felt I had to talk about it. It was weird. It was something that, I think, I was probably like 10 or 11 [when it happened]. I shouldn’t have had to deal with those feelings.’

The actor is now a father to son Billy, five, who he shares with wife Caitlin, 37, and said: ‘But I’ll tell you, if I found out someone was doing that to my son, that’s a totally different story.’

Elsewhere in the memoir, Stamos reflected on his alcohol and substance abuse battle, detailing how getting arrested for DUI in 2015 sparked his decision to get sober.

 

PARIS HILTON REVEALS GROOMING, RAPE AND ABORTION HEARTBREAK

Paris Hilton revealed she was groomed by an eighth grade teacher who ‘kissed her and told her she was sensual’ when she was just 14 in Paris, The Memoir (pictured 1996 aged 15)

The socialite, now 42 – who has spoken about alleged sexual abuse she suffered at a Utah school – detailed how she and her friends grew attracted to a ‘handsome young teacher with an ‘Abercrombie look’ in middle school (pictured February 2023)

Paris Hilton revealed she was groomed by an eighth grade teacher who ‘kissed her and told her she was sensual’ when she was just 14 in Paris, The Memoir.

The socialite, now 42 – who has spoken about alleged sexual abuse she suffered at a Utah school – detailed how she and her friends grew attracted to a ‘handsome young teacher with an ‘Abercrombie look’ in middle school.

She claims the teacher told her as a young teenager: ‘I’ve got a crush on you’ before asking for her phone number and warning her not to tell anyone.

She writes: ‘Mr. Abercrombie called me almost every night, and we talked for hours about how amazingly mature, beautiful and intelligent I was, how sensual, misunderstood and special.

‘He reminded me that Princess Diana was thirteen years younger than Prince Charles. And Priscilla Presley was my age when Elvis fell in love with her.’

The teacher then secretly visited her home, with Paris writing: ‘Teacher pulled me into his arms and kissed me’ before her parents Kathy and Rick Hilton discovered them in the teacher’s car.

She added that ‘Mr Abercrombie’ blamed her, asking: ‘Why did you make me do this?’

Paris was then sent to France that summer by her parents to live with her grandmother.

She said it took ‘decades’ for her to realize she was a victim of child abuse.

She wrote: ‘It took decades for me to actually speak the word pedophile. Casting him in the role of child molester meant casting myself in the role of victim, and I just couldn’t go there.’

Elsewhere in the memoir, the star detailed being raped by an older man at the age of 15, in her first sexual experience.

At the time, Paris was living with her grandmother in Palm Springs and would often visit the Westfield Century City shopping center in Los Angeles with her friends.

She said older men would often hang around the stores and speak to them and one day they invited Paris and her friends back ‘to their house’.

Paris said she was offered ‘berry wine coolers’ to drink and one of the men was particularly forceful about getting her to drink it.

She said: ‘When I had maybe one or two sips, I just immediately started feeling dizzy and woozy. I don’t know what he put in there; I’m assuming it was a roofie [Rohypnol].’

‘I became aware of a crushing weight on me. Suffocating me. Cracking my ribs. I felt a jolt of panic and tried to get up, but the impulse was lost, as if something had severed my spinal cord.

‘When I tried to scream, there was no air in my lungs. All that came out was a small, raspy ‘stop… what’s happening… stop…’ until this guy clamped his hand over my mouth – like, aggressively – like, hard. He clamped down on my face and whispered: “It’s a dream. It’s a dream. You’re dreaming.”‘

She also revealed  fell pregnant with model and former fiance Jason Shaw before having a abortion aged 22 in 2003.

The reality star, who previously revealed she terminated her pregnancy because she was ‘not ready for a baby’, said sexual abuse at boarding schools meant she wasn’t ‘capable of being whole’.

Elsewhere in the memoir, the star detailed being raped by an older man at the age of 15, in her first sexual experience

In another revelation Hilton confirmed she fell pregnant with model Jason Shaw before having a abortion aged 22 in 2003 (pictured 2002)

Hilton first met Tommy Hilfiger model Shaw, now 49, outside the Four Seasons in LA in 2001 with the pair getting engaged the following year. Their romance ended in 2003.

She wrote about discovering she was pregnant in November 2003: ‘I was terrified and heartsick. The hormones sent my ADHD symptoms spiraling. Everything I knew about myself was at war with everything I’d been raised to believe about abortion.

‘I knew I wasn’t in the right place to make any sort of commitment. It had nothing to do with him or a baby. I just wasn’t capable of being honest or loyal or whole.

‘After suffering abuse at Provo Canyon School and three other programs within the “troubled teen” industry network, I was damaged in ways I couldn’t tell him about, and the fact that I never confided in him about my past—that says it all, doesn’t it? Secrets are corrosive. They destroy anything you try to layer over them.

Paris said she has constantly looked back with sorrow on her termination, and ‘tortured myself with melodrama—thoughts like, what if I killed my Paris?’ – but realizes motherhood in her 20s would have been a ‘train wreck.’

 

PAMELA ANDERSON CLAIMS TIM ALLEN FLASHED HER

In memoir, Love, Pamela, the star claimed Tim Allen flashed his genitals to her more than 30 years ago on the set of Home Improvement – which he denied.

‘I would never do such a thing,’ Allen, 69, told Variety saying that the incident Anderson, 55, described ‘never happened.’

Anderson said the incident occurred on the set of Home Improvement in 1991 when she was 23-years-old and he was 37.

‘On the first day of filming, I walked out of my dressing room, and Tim was in the hallway in his robe,’ said Anderson, who played the role of Lisa on the ABC sitcom, which starred Allen as Tim Taylor.

In memoir, Love, Pamela, the star claimed Tim Allen flashed his genitals to her more than 30 years ago on the set of Home Improvement – which he denied

Allen and Anderson were pictured with costar Richard Karn in a July 1992 promotional shot

Prior to breaking out as a mainstream show business star, Anderson in the early 90s had appeared on sitcoms such as Married… with Children, Charles in Charge and Top of the Heap

She continued, ‘He opened his robe and flashed me quickly – completely naked underneath.’

Anderson, who had previously posed for Playboy magazine, continued to describe the circumstances of the encounter: ‘He said it was only fair, because he had seen me naked. Now we’re even. I laughed uncomfortably.’

Prior to breaking out as a mainstream show business star, Anderson in the early 90s had appeared on sitcoms such as Married… with Children, Charles in Charge and Top of the Heap.

Anderson appeared on a total of 22 episodes of the series in its first and second seasons between 1991 and 1992, making one last appearance during the show’s sixth season in 1997.

She left amid massive career success with the hit show Baywatch, on which she starred as C.J. Parker.

Tim himself also took part in a number of projects following the success of Home Improvement, and went on to star in another long-lived series, Last Man Standing, and was also the voice actor of Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story franchise.

 

BARBRA STREISAND  DISHES ON KING CHARLES FLIRTATION

The American singer, 81, wasn’t afraid to reference King Charles, 74, in her new memoir, My Name is Barbra: The Exhilarating and Startlingly Honest Autobiography of the Living Legend (pictured together in 1974)

The American singer, 81, wasn’t afraid to reference King Charles, 74, in her new memoir, My Name is Barbra: The Exhilarating and Startlingly Honest Autobiography of the Living Legend.

She detailed her longstanding relationship with the ‘utterly charming’ royal, who she first met in 1974 on the set of her film Funny Girl, after Charles turned up at Columbia Studios in Hollywood in the hope of seeing her.

There were rumors that the then Prince of Wales even had a poster of the singer on his wall and was infatuated with her.

The royal’s admiration for the singer is even said to have made Princess Diana suggest to an aide that she would not have been shocked if the two friends had an affair, according to The Sun.

Barbra previously said: ‘If I had played my cards right, I could have been the first Jewish princess,’ and reportedly added that if she knew of Charles’ admiration for her when they first met, it would have made her self-conscious.

The new memoir also revealed that Barbra had met the late Queen

In the new memoir, Barbra recalled the first time she met the monarch – in 1974 when Charles was on duty with the Royal Navy in San Diego.

Charles travelled to California and met up with the Emmy award-winning singer, who was, at the time, working on a sequel for the famed film Funny Girl.

According to the memoir, when Charles was asked why he wanted to travel to LA, he responded to meet Barbra, ‘the woman behind the voice’.

The initial meet-up went well, and despite both of their ‘shy’ personalities, the pair created a new friendship with one another.

She wrote: ‘The fact is, both Prince Charles and I are shy, but somehow we still managed to connect, because that proved to be the beginning of an unexpected friendship.’

Backstage at Barbra’s Wembley Arena concert in 1994 was the next time the pair met up, with Charles watching the concert from the Royal Box. Two hundred of the best seats at the concert had also been sold by Prince’s Trust to benefit young people.

The next day, Barbra received a special delivery from the then Prince of Wales – a bouquet.

Barbra recalled: ‘It was simply signed “Charles”. And the flowers were fresh from his garden!

‘He wrote, “It was such a treat to attend your concert last night — you were wonderful and I adored every minute!”‘

In 2006, an explosive unauthorized biography claimed Streisand had a secret affair with Charles.

She detailed her longstanding relationship with the ‘utterly charming’ royal, who she first met in 1974 on the set of her film Funny Girl, after Charles turned up at Columbia Studios in Hollywood in the hope of seeing her. The pair are pictured above at Wembley Arena in 1994

The prince, who apparently once said the singer was ‘my only pin-up’, is said to have romanced her in November 1994 while on a trip to the US. He had separated from Princess Diana two years earlier.

Sources quoted in the biography Barbra – The Way She Is said Charles had a private dinner for the singer nine months later where they seemed ‘very affectionate toward each other’.

Barbra is said to have bonded with the King over their shared interests in ‘gardens and organic food and the health of the planet’.

In 1995, Charles invited Streisand to stay at his residence in Gloucestershire, where the pair enjoyed a candlelit dinner and chatted about ‘art and architecture’.

In recent times, the singer said she received a card with one of his watercolour paintings on it for her birthday and a video message for her 80th last year.

The singer, who had an ‘extraordinary’ relationship with Charles, also recalled memories of the late Queen.

Having met in 1975 at the London premiere of Streisand’s film Funny Lady, she asked Queen Elizabeth II why only women require gloves to shake the royal’s hand. The Queen responded that it had much to do with tradition.

 

JADA PINKETT SMITH ON THAT OSCARS SLAP AND SEPARATION

In memoir Worthy, Jada detailed the fraught build-up to the 2022 Oscars – which saw husband Will Smith, who she had secretly separated from in 2016 – slap Chris Rock

She believed the slap was a joke, writing: ‘When Chris was still standing afterward, I believed my observation to be true — aha, this IS a skit’

Touching on her previous entanglement with August Alsina, she wrote: ‘Talk of our open marriage was somewhat misleading, because it wasn’t the free-for-all it sounded like’

In memoir Worthy, Jada detailed the fraught build-up to the 2022 Oscars – which saw husband Will Smith, who she had secretly separated from in 2016 – slap Chris Rock.

She wrote the pair attended the ceremony ‘as husband and wife’ but after the slap she wanted to remain by his side, but said she would not fight this fight for him either.’

She believed the slap was a joke, writing: ‘When Chris was still standing afterward, I believed my observation to be true — aha, this IS a skit.’

‘Jada, I honestly meant no harm’ she claimed Rock told her as the cameras stopped.

Touching on her previous entanglement with August Alsina, she wrote: ‘Talk of our open marriage was somewhat misleading, because it wasn’t the free-for-all it sounded like.’

 

SAM NEILL REVEALS HE HAS STAGE 3 CANCER

Jurassic Park star Neill, 76, first disclosed he was battling stage 3 non-Hodgkin blood cancer, angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma in his memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This, where he writes in the first chapter that he is ‘possibly dying’

Sam, Joseph Mazzello, and Ariana Richards are pictured in 1993’s Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park star Neill, 76, first disclosed he was battling stage 3 non-Hodgkin blood cancer, angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma in his memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This, where he writes in the first chapter that he is ‘possibly dying’.

‘I didn’t know really how long I had to live,’ the actor told the ABC. ‘And I thought, yeah, I should probably write something down for my children, my grandchildren, because I may not be here in a couple of months and it would be good for them to have a sense of me, you know, and and some of the things that I’ve done.’

In an interview with The Guardian, the actor said: ‘The thing is, I’m crook. I may have to speed this up. I found myself with nothing to do.

‘And I’m used to working. I love working. I love going to work. I love being with people every day and enjoying human company and friendship and all these things. And suddenly I was deprived of that. And I thought, ‘What am I going to do?”

In October Neill revealed an experimental drug is working at fighting off the disease and he had been in remission for 12 months.

He said: ‘I’m not in any way frightened of dying. That doesn’t worry me. It’s never worried me from the beginning, but I would be annoyed,’ the 76-year-old said. Pictured with son Tim Neill-Harrow

In October Neill revealed an experimental drug is working at fighting off the disease and he had been in remission for 12 months

He’s been told by his doctors that one day the drug will stop working – which he says he is ‘prepared for’.

‘I’m not in any way frightened of dying. That doesn’t worry me. It’s never worried me from the beginning, but I would be annoyed,’ he said.

‘I’d be annoyed because there are things I still want to do. Very irritating, dying. But I’m not afraid of it.’