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Five Biggest Celebrity Memoir Shockers--Move Over, Ashley Judd

You might've guessed Ashley Judd's upbringing wasn't perfect. You might not have known it wasn't close--until, that is, her new book revealed all.
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You might've guessed Ashley Judd's upbringing wasn't perfect. You might not have known it wasn't close--until, that is, her new book revealed all.

Here are the five biggest bombshells dropped by celebrity memoirs (and if it makes Naomi Judd feel better, no, your daughter's don't make the cut):

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1. Mackenzie Phillips Was Raped by Papa John Phillips: In most books, that disclosure would be bar none the most unsettling. But the younger Phillips' 2009 High on Arrival isn't most books. In it, the onetime One Day at a Time star wrote that, post-rape, she engaged in a years-long affair with her music-legend father. Mega-unsettling.

2. Joan Crawford Was the Original "Mommie Dearest": Today, we expect our celebrity memoirs to dish major dirt. In 1978, Christina Crawford's tome about growing up the (abused) daughter of a (monstrous) screen legend shocked. (And since the movie hadn't been made yet, the bit about wire hangers wasn't one bit funny.)

3. Jose Canseco Names Names: In 2005, this future Celebrity Apprentice player had nothing to lose, so the ex-baseball slugger told some steroid tales on himself--and other beloved stars of the game. Conventional wisdom said Canseco just wanted to sell books. Three years later, and a few steroid admissions later from some of those same beloved stars, Canseco published a sequel called Vindicated (and got booked on Letterman, to boot).

4. Rosie O'Donnell Inflicted Broken Bones on a Kid--Herself: There is pain, and then there's pain. In Celebrity Detox, the former talk queen's 2007 confessional, O'Donnell writes about her younger self smashing her own fingers with a souvenir baseball bat for "proof that I had some value, enough to be fixed."

5. Greg Brady Dated His Mom?! It wasn't as twisted as all that (and as Florence Henderson herself has attested, it was way more innocent than all that), but The Brady Bunch was such a G-rated show that just about any "dirt" in Barry Williams' behind-the-scenes 1992 autobiography, Growing Up Brady, seemed, well, dirty--especially his account of Henderson taking pity on his lovestruck teenage self.

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