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\n Related: <\/span>Celeb Name-Drops From Charlie Sheen’s Memoir: Johnny Depp and More<\/span><\/a>
\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tCharlie Sheen\u2019s memoir was full of celebrity name-drops \u2014 but some were more impactful to his life than others. His famous father, Martin Sheen, and brother Emilio Estevez were among the stars named in The Book of Sheen, which was released on Tuesday, September 9. Some of Sheen\u2019s former costars, including Jennifer Gray and Alan [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Charlie explained that Simpson had \u201cchanged hands\u201d and made a paddle switch-up to win the game. The actor called the late football star\u2019s right hand f***ing lethal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark Ronson\u2019s Experience With Diddy<\/h2>\n
In his September memoir, Night People<\/em>, Mark Ronson<\/strong> revealed that he always felt uneasy<\/a> around now-disgraced mogul Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs<\/strong> when he encountered him at events in the 1990s.<\/p>\n\u201cFor all the gigs I played for Puff, he probably spoke five sentences to me. But even to me, the DJ, he emitted a chaotic energy that left me both starstruck and deeply unnerved,\u201d Ronson wrote, noting that it was \u201cabundantly clear\u201d to him in that Diddy \u201cwielded a tremendous amount of power and cachet\u201d on the Manhattan club scene in that era. \u201cHe made people\u2019s careers \u2014 playing gigs for him certainly helped mine \u2014 and his disapproval meant a certain kind of exile. \u2026 He took over downtown \u2014 and then the Hamptons \u2014 until the whole city seemed to revolve around him and his parties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Priscilla Presley\u2019s Surprising Connection to Robert Kardashian<\/h2>\n\n![\"Unexpected](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3Unexpected-Name-Drops-From-Celebrity-Memoirs-Released-in-2025.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
<\/div>Grand Central Publishing<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nPriscilla Presley<\/strong> dated Robert Kardashian<\/strong> for \u201ca few months\u201d following her divorce from Elvis Presley<\/strong>. Kardashian\u2019s \u201cdemanding job\u201d as a lawyer led to their split, because when the \u201cweekend rolled around\u201d he wanted to relax, but Priscilla \u2014 who is \u201cactive by nature\u201d \u2014 grew \u201crestless.\u201d He also wanted to get married, and she wasn\u2019t ready to commit again after Elvis.<\/p>\nYears after their split, Kim Kardashian<\/strong> called Priscilla<\/a> so she could have \u201cone last conversation\u201d with Robert before his death in September 2003.<\/p>\nJudd Apatow\u2019s Experience With Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold<\/h2>\n
Judd Apatow<\/strong> worked closely with Roseanne Barr<\/strong> and Tom Arnold<\/strong> at one point in his career, and things were tumultuous at best. The trio were shooting something at Apatow\u2019s grandma\u2019s home, and things got heated.<\/p>\n\u201cRoseanne said, \u2018Tom, would you ever want me to get plastic surgery?\u2019\u201d Apatow wrote in his October book, Comedy Nerd<\/em>. \u201cTom said with a smile, \u2018No, of course not. I married you the way you are, so clearly I don\u2019t care about how you look.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n![\"Judd](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2202918279-JUdd-Apatow-Book.jpg?crop=68px%2C88px%2C1173px%2C663px&resize=400%2C225&quality=86&strip=all\")
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\n Related: <\/span>Judd Apatow’s Biggest Name-Drops From His \u2018Comedy Nerd\u2019 Memoir<\/span><\/a>
\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tJudd Apatow name-dropped all his famous friends in his new book, Comedy Nerd: A Lifelong Obsession in Stories and Pictures. \u201cI\u2019ve worked on this book for a few years. It\u2019s emotional getting to the end of this process,\u201d Apatow, 57, wrote in the book, published on Tuesday, October 28. \u201cI have always been a hoarder, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Barr made everyone clear the room, and the crew could hear \u201cfighting of some sort\u201d before everyone returned to production. The fight started up again, but things changed the second time around.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey both go back in the room where we hear yelling and people banging off the walls. Then it gets quiet. Then, too quiet,\u201d Apatow wrote. \u201cSomehow we all came to the conclusion they started having sex<\/a>. A little while later they both came out of the room happy as can be, and Roseanne shot her cameo.\u201d<\/p>\nOzzy Osbourne\u2019s AA Run-In With Matthew Perry<\/h2>\n\n![\"Unexpected](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2Unexpected-Name-Drops-From-Celebrity-Memoirs-Released-in-2025.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
<\/div>Grand Central Publishing<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOzzy Osbourne<\/strong>\u2019s posthumous memoir, Last Rites<\/em>, was a laugh-out-loud romp through his days in Black Sabbath<\/a> and as a solo artist, but he also shared candid revelations about his health and addiction battles. In one poignant recollection, Osbourne said that the late Matthew Perry<\/strong> used to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings at the Osbourne house.<\/p>\n\u201cHe used to come to our house for AA meetings, or so my wife tells me,\u201d Osbourne wrote in the October book. \u201cThe funniest, most talented bloke. And he was trying so hard to stay on the right path.\u201d<\/p>\n
The late rocker went on to say that he was heartbroken when Perry died of an accidental ketamine overdose in 2023<\/a>. \u201cThen one day he listened to his addiction telling him it was OK to get loaded, and that was it \u2014 game over,\u201d Osbourne said. \u201cI felt so sad when they said he\u2019d been found in his hot tub, unresponsive, with ketamine in his system. He\u2019d given everything he had to stay clean. But it wasn\u2019t enough.\u201d<\/p>\nPaul McCartney Got Too Stoned to Meet Bob Marley<\/h2>\n
In the November oral history, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run<\/em><\/a>, Paul McCartney<\/strong> detailed his time with his second band, which lasted from 1971 to 1982. While the book was full of revelations about his fellow Beatles and Wings members, one of the funniest anecdotes was his recollection of the time he almost met reggae icon Bob Marley<\/strong>.<\/p>\nMcCartney said he was a huge fan but passed on his one chance to speak with Marley, for a very ironic reason. \u201cHe was playing in London, and to tell you the truth, I was going to see him, but I got high beforehand,\u201d the Grammy winner wrote. \u201cI got paranoid and thought, \u2018No, I can\u2019t meet him.\u2019 Just one of those things. Can you believe that marijuana kept me from meeting Bob Marley?\u201d<\/p>\n
Tina Knowles\u2019 Many Revelations About Her Famous Daughters<\/h2>\n
Tina Knowles<\/strong>\u2019 April memoir, Matriarch<\/em>, is a moving account of her childhood<\/a> in Texas as well as the ups and downs in her marriage to Mathew Knowles<\/strong>. Fans of her daughters, however, were most excited by the tea she dropped about Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong> and Solange<\/strong>. Writing about Solange\u2019s pregnancy, Tina revealed that she tried to convince her younger daughter, then 17, not to marry Daniel Smith<\/strong> and called her future son-in-law to talk it over.<\/p>\n\n
\u201cFor all the gigs I played for Puff, he probably spoke five sentences to me. But even to me, the DJ, he emitted a chaotic energy that left me both starstruck and deeply unnerved,\u201d Ronson wrote, noting that it was \u201cabundantly clear\u201d to him in that Diddy \u201cwielded a tremendous amount of power and cachet\u201d on the Manhattan club scene in that era. \u201cHe made people\u2019s careers \u2014 playing gigs for him certainly helped mine \u2014 and his disapproval meant a certain kind of exile. \u2026 He took over downtown \u2014 and then the Hamptons \u2014 until the whole city seemed to revolve around him and his parties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Priscilla Presley\u2019s Surprising Connection to Robert Kardashian<\/h2>\n\n<\/div>Grand Central Publishing<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nPriscilla Presley<\/strong> dated Robert Kardashian<\/strong> for \u201ca few months\u201d following her divorce from Elvis Presley<\/strong>. Kardashian\u2019s \u201cdemanding job\u201d as a lawyer led to their split, because when the \u201cweekend rolled around\u201d he wanted to relax, but Priscilla \u2014 who is \u201cactive by nature\u201d \u2014 grew \u201crestless.\u201d He also wanted to get married, and she wasn\u2019t ready to commit again after Elvis.<\/p>\nYears after their split, Kim Kardashian<\/strong> called Priscilla<\/a> so she could have \u201cone last conversation\u201d with Robert before his death in September 2003.<\/p>\nJudd Apatow\u2019s Experience With Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold<\/h2>\n
Judd Apatow<\/strong> worked closely with Roseanne Barr<\/strong> and Tom Arnold<\/strong> at one point in his career, and things were tumultuous at best. The trio were shooting something at Apatow\u2019s grandma\u2019s home, and things got heated.<\/p>\n\u201cRoseanne said, \u2018Tom, would you ever want me to get plastic surgery?\u2019\u201d Apatow wrote in his October book, Comedy Nerd<\/em>. \u201cTom said with a smile, \u2018No, of course not. I married you the way you are, so clearly I don\u2019t care about how you look.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n Related: <\/span>Judd Apatow’s Biggest Name-Drops From His \u2018Comedy Nerd\u2019 Memoir<\/span><\/a>
\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tJudd Apatow name-dropped all his famous friends in his new book, Comedy Nerd: A Lifelong Obsession in Stories and Pictures. \u201cI\u2019ve worked on this book for a few years. It\u2019s emotional getting to the end of this process,\u201d Apatow, 57, wrote in the book, published on Tuesday, October 28. \u201cI have always been a hoarder, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Barr made everyone clear the room, and the crew could hear \u201cfighting of some sort\u201d before everyone returned to production. The fight started up again, but things changed the second time around.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey both go back in the room where we hear yelling and people banging off the walls. Then it gets quiet. Then, too quiet,\u201d Apatow wrote. \u201cSomehow we all came to the conclusion they started having sex<\/a>. A little while later they both came out of the room happy as can be, and Roseanne shot her cameo.\u201d<\/p>\nOzzy Osbourne\u2019s AA Run-In With Matthew Perry<\/h2>\n\n<\/div>Grand Central Publishing<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOzzy Osbourne<\/strong>\u2019s posthumous memoir, Last Rites<\/em>, was a laugh-out-loud romp through his days in Black Sabbath<\/a> and as a solo artist, but he also shared candid revelations about his health and addiction battles. In one poignant recollection, Osbourne said that the late Matthew Perry<\/strong> used to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings at the Osbourne house.<\/p>\n\u201cHe used to come to our house for AA meetings, or so my wife tells me,\u201d Osbourne wrote in the October book. \u201cThe funniest, most talented bloke. And he was trying so hard to stay on the right path.\u201d<\/p>\n
The late rocker went on to say that he was heartbroken when Perry died of an accidental ketamine overdose in 2023<\/a>. \u201cThen one day he listened to his addiction telling him it was OK to get loaded, and that was it \u2014 game over,\u201d Osbourne said. \u201cI felt so sad when they said he\u2019d been found in his hot tub, unresponsive, with ketamine in his system. He\u2019d given everything he had to stay clean. But it wasn\u2019t enough.\u201d<\/p>\nPaul McCartney Got Too Stoned to Meet Bob Marley<\/h2>\n
In the November oral history, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run<\/em><\/a>, Paul McCartney<\/strong> detailed his time with his second band, which lasted from 1971 to 1982. While the book was full of revelations about his fellow Beatles and Wings members, one of the funniest anecdotes was his recollection of the time he almost met reggae icon Bob Marley<\/strong>.<\/p>\nMcCartney said he was a huge fan but passed on his one chance to speak with Marley, for a very ironic reason. \u201cHe was playing in London, and to tell you the truth, I was going to see him, but I got high beforehand,\u201d the Grammy winner wrote. \u201cI got paranoid and thought, \u2018No, I can\u2019t meet him.\u2019 Just one of those things. Can you believe that marijuana kept me from meeting Bob Marley?\u201d<\/p>\n
Tina Knowles\u2019 Many Revelations About Her Famous Daughters<\/h2>\n
Tina Knowles<\/strong>\u2019 April memoir, Matriarch<\/em>, is a moving account of her childhood<\/a> in Texas as well as the ups and downs in her marriage to Mathew Knowles<\/strong>. Fans of her daughters, however, were most excited by the tea she dropped about Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong> and Solange<\/strong>. Writing about Solange\u2019s pregnancy, Tina revealed that she tried to convince her younger daughter, then 17, not to marry Daniel Smith<\/strong> and called her future son-in-law to talk it over.<\/p>\n\n
<\/div>Priscilla Presley<\/strong> dated Robert Kardashian<\/strong> for \u201ca few months\u201d following her divorce from Elvis Presley<\/strong>. Kardashian\u2019s \u201cdemanding job\u201d as a lawyer led to their split, because when the \u201cweekend rolled around\u201d he wanted to relax, but Priscilla \u2014 who is \u201cactive by nature\u201d \u2014 grew \u201crestless.\u201d He also wanted to get married, and she wasn\u2019t ready to commit again after Elvis.<\/p>\n Years after their split, Kim Kardashian<\/strong> called Priscilla<\/a> so she could have \u201cone last conversation\u201d with Robert before his death in September 2003.<\/p>\n Judd Apatow<\/strong> worked closely with Roseanne Barr<\/strong> and Tom Arnold<\/strong> at one point in his career, and things were tumultuous at best. The trio were shooting something at Apatow\u2019s grandma\u2019s home, and things got heated.<\/p>\n \u201cRoseanne said, \u2018Tom, would you ever want me to get plastic surgery?\u2019\u201d Apatow wrote in his October book, Comedy Nerd<\/em>. \u201cTom said with a smile, \u2018No, of course not. I married you the way you are, so clearly I don\u2019t care about how you look.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\tJudd Apatow name-dropped all his famous friends in his new book, Comedy Nerd: A Lifelong Obsession in Stories and Pictures. \u201cI\u2019ve worked on this book for a few years. It\u2019s emotional getting to the end of this process,\u201d Apatow, 57, wrote in the book, published on Tuesday, October 28. \u201cI have always been a hoarder, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Barr made everyone clear the room, and the crew could hear \u201cfighting of some sort\u201d before everyone returned to production. The fight started up again, but things changed the second time around.<\/p>\n \u201cThey both go back in the room where we hear yelling and people banging off the walls. Then it gets quiet. Then, too quiet,\u201d Apatow wrote. \u201cSomehow we all came to the conclusion they started having sex<\/a>. A little while later they both came out of the room happy as can be, and Roseanne shot her cameo.\u201d<\/p>\n Ozzy Osbourne<\/strong>\u2019s posthumous memoir, Last Rites<\/em>, was a laugh-out-loud romp through his days in Black Sabbath<\/a> and as a solo artist, but he also shared candid revelations about his health and addiction battles. In one poignant recollection, Osbourne said that the late Matthew Perry<\/strong> used to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings at the Osbourne house.<\/p>\n \u201cHe used to come to our house for AA meetings, or so my wife tells me,\u201d Osbourne wrote in the October book. \u201cThe funniest, most talented bloke. And he was trying so hard to stay on the right path.\u201d<\/p>\n The late rocker went on to say that he was heartbroken when Perry died of an accidental ketamine overdose in 2023<\/a>. \u201cThen one day he listened to his addiction telling him it was OK to get loaded, and that was it \u2014 game over,\u201d Osbourne said. \u201cI felt so sad when they said he\u2019d been found in his hot tub, unresponsive, with ketamine in his system. He\u2019d given everything he had to stay clean. But it wasn\u2019t enough.\u201d<\/p>\n In the November oral history, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run<\/em><\/a>, Paul McCartney<\/strong> detailed his time with his second band, which lasted from 1971 to 1982. While the book was full of revelations about his fellow Beatles and Wings members, one of the funniest anecdotes was his recollection of the time he almost met reggae icon Bob Marley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n McCartney said he was a huge fan but passed on his one chance to speak with Marley, for a very ironic reason. \u201cHe was playing in London, and to tell you the truth, I was going to see him, but I got high beforehand,\u201d the Grammy winner wrote. \u201cI got paranoid and thought, \u2018No, I can\u2019t meet him.\u2019 Just one of those things. Can you believe that marijuana kept me from meeting Bob Marley?\u201d<\/p>\n Tina Knowles<\/strong>\u2019 April memoir, Matriarch<\/em>, is a moving account of her childhood<\/a> in Texas as well as the ups and downs in her marriage to Mathew Knowles<\/strong>. Fans of her daughters, however, were most excited by the tea she dropped about Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong> and Solange<\/strong>. Writing about Solange\u2019s pregnancy, Tina revealed that she tried to convince her younger daughter, then 17, not to marry Daniel Smith<\/strong> and called her future son-in-law to talk it over.<\/p>\nJudd Apatow\u2019s Experience With Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold<\/h2>\n
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\n Related: <\/span>Judd Apatow’s Biggest Name-Drops From His \u2018Comedy Nerd\u2019 Memoir<\/span><\/a>
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<\/div>Paul McCartney Got Too Stoned to Meet Bob Marley<\/h2>\n
Tina Knowles\u2019 Many Revelations About Her Famous Daughters<\/h2>\n