Minka Dumonte Kelly is a model, actress, and philanthropist born in America on June 24, 1980. Kelly’s acting career was initiated as a substitute for a short film named The Turbo Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious, which was directed by Philip Atwell. It was a follow-up to the movie 2 Fast 2 Furious, the franchise of Fast and Furious.
Since then, she has been featured in various daily American television series like American Dreams, Drake & Josh, and Entourage. But her career got bloomed when she landed a regular cast character named Lyla Garrity, who is a cheerleader for the high school football team and a student in a drama series on NBC named Friday Night Lights.
After her fame from Friday Night Lights, Kelly was featured in another horror movie named ‘The Pumpkin Karver’ with the character Tammy Boyles in the same year, 2006, which made her more famous to the audience. Kelly was not seen featured in any movie or television series after that for a while for reasons unknown, but the wait was over in December 2015 when Kelly was cast in action-drama series for ABC ‘Charlie’s Angels’, played the character of Eve French, a street racer.
“Tell Me Everything”: Minka Kelly’s Memoir shares her life story
“Tell Me Everything” is a memoir released on 2 May 2023 by Actress Minka Kelly, where the actress takes us through her life journey and career in television series and movies, her hits, and her flops. She also opens up about her personal life and the struggles she had to face.
Here are some of the most scandalous revelations from the book.
Kelly’s teen abortion
In the book, Kelly reveals that she was in an abusive relationship with an ex-boyfriend, who she refers to as very abusive. She shares that the relationship was emotionally and physically abusive and that she eventually had to get a restraining order against him. She was also pregnant with his child when she was just 17 years old and didn’t know what to do with it. Further, she added that she aborted the child.
Kelly was abused in her teenage
The actress said in her book that she was 17 years old when she and her mother moved in with her mother’s then Ex-boyfriend Rudy. Her mom did that to provide shelter and safety. Further, she added that when her mom used to go out to work, Rudy used to ask her to pose for him and take her pictures. She recalls that the pictures were so disturbing that she was not even able to sleep in the night.
Minka Kelly about dating her co-star Taylor
One of the things that Kelly opened up about in her memoir was her relationship with Taylor Kitsch, Kelly’s co-star, during her hit show ‘Friday Night Lights’. She talked about how she fell for him and how coworkers to friends and friends to lovers, how their bond grew, and also how and why it ended. She called it an ‘abusive’ and ‘toxic’ relationship with Taylor and had many issues about the relationship, both physically and emotionally.
Kelly is coming to terms with her mother’s profession as a stripper.
The actress talked about her relationship with her mother, Maureen. She talked about how she misunderstood her mother and her profession, who worked as a stripper for a period of time; she said she hated her mother’s profession and wanted her to change it and normally work as her other school friends’ moms. But she said she regrets it now that she didn’t value her mother and the things that she did for her; she further added that if she had understood it before, she would be proud of her mother and apologized to her before she died in 2008.
Kelly Minka Kelly Exposes Harvey Weinstein’s Misconduct
Kelly talking about Harvey Weinstein and accusing him of sexual harassment was one of the highlights of her book. She said the type of conversation she had with Harvey was ‘Gross’ and had nothing to do with the industry talk. He planned a meeting with her which was purely professional, he stated, but at the end of the meeting, he asked her to be his girlfriend, and when she denied that, he said that he trust’s her and she won’t tell about this to anyone.
Throughout the book, Kelly shares her journey to self-acceptance and self-love. She writes about how she has learned to be kinder to herself and to embrace her flaws.
