Down the Drain

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i just feel this memoir is entirely premature. fox is still so young and both her sobriety and career in the mainstream are very recent. some more time could have offered some deeply needed introspection. Strictly's Bobby Brazier and Dianne Buswell still appear in top spirits as they arrive for another exhausting nine-hour rehearsal ahead of week six Zara McDermott breaks down in tears over sweet gesture from boyfriend Sam Thompson after Strictly Come Dancing departure In her memoir, Fox introduces us to Giovanni, the 23-year-old to whom she lost her virginity when she was 14. He winks at her while she is play-fighting in the dirt with her cousin in a small Northern Italian town near Milan, where she was born (Fox lived between there and New York City off and on as a kid). Later, Giovanni plies her with alcohol until she can barely stand. Then he has sex with her — outside, on the ground, in the middle of the cobblestoned street near his car. After, she drips blood over his crisp white sweater, and the next day word spreads through town that she is a whore. Storm Ciaran sparks red warning in Channel Islands as residents brace for 100mph winds with ferries, flights and lessons axed as 'weather bomb' edges closer to UK mainland

Julia Fox Says Writing Her Upcoming Memoir Down the Drain Julia Fox Says Writing Her Upcoming Memoir Down the Drain

Fox has always been up front about the fact that she was a sex worker, an addict, that she has endured extreme harm. In Down the Drain, she describes her parents as almost operatically neglectful — there are refusals to intervene after overdoses, affairs with best friends’ parents, and it sometimes takes weeks for them to notice their daughter is missing. She writes that she has overdosed more than once: as a teenager on PCP, coming to in an ambulance “with vomit all around,” and years later on a New Orleans trip involving trap houses, guns, and heroin. Best friends are ripped away via rehab or death, and Fox has a miscarriage in a bathroom bar without ever having known that she was pregnant. Mauricio Umansky dines with Dorit Kemsley's husband... after denying he is dating DWTS partner Emma Slater amid Kyle Richards split Jenna Bush Hager reveals how her father George W. Bush's own 'alcohol issues' helped her talk to 10-year-old daughter Mila about Matthew Perry's death From heartthrob to hair flop! Gerard Butler, 53, sports an unflattering blond hairpiece as he films new crime thriller In The Hand Of Dante in Rome

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It's very isolating,' she admitted. 'And when you're famous, you're not allowed to complain about being famous. I saw ​ “the tunnel”, but Ithought it looked like awindow with light spilling out. Iwas like, oh my god, my life flashed before my eyes. Iwas on the ceiling looking down and Isaw cereal [on the floor], agirl going through my bag and stealing my phone, and Isaw the drug dealer’s mum slapping me in the face and trying to wake me up, and praying over me in Spanish. And then Iwoke up in the ambulance. Even though Iwas in this horrible predicament, inside Ifelt like Ihad this secret. You know when you steal something and you’re guarding it, waiting to play with it later?

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