25 Truths + A Lie
I wholeheartedly believe that good writing comes from life experience. I have lived a life like no other. Here are 25 really random facts and one lie. Can you spot the lie?
- I am related in some very distant way, to Steven Tyler.
- I have never gone fishing or ice-skating in my entire life.
- I once had dinner with Benicio Del Toro.
- I was married in New Orleans and wore my wedding dress across Bourbon Street.
- I hate the smell of peaches.
- I have seven tattoos and the first was prompted by a “devastating” heartbreak from an American Idol contestant.
- I drove the entire country.
- I was a Math major for most of college.
- I once modeled with Fabio (the “I can’t believe it’s not butter” guy).
- I attended a milestone birthday party for Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- I am a germophobe and carry sanitzer everywhere I go.
- I have two nephews and one niece all beginning with “E.”
- I ran a blog called “Hollywouldn’t” and chronicled things like the LA Arsonist. Then I turned it into a pilot.
- I’m allergic to wool but wear it anyway.
- I was a guest at Kristen Bell’s engagement party, pre-Dax Shepard.
- My parents were high school sweethearts. I still catch them holding hands.
- I once hid in a bush with a recorder when I was a newspaper journalist. It was not a thorn bush like the movies.
- I once got in a car accident on an April Fool’s Day and no one believed me.
- I have had three dogs in my life, all of them born on the 16th.
- I almost died four times.
- I was supposed to be at Route 91.
- I’ve lived in Hell’s Kitchen and Hollywood. Hollywood three times.
- I love cilantro.
- I refuse to believe in dinosaurs.
- I wrote a prequel to the Labyrinth.
- My dad was born on Mother’s Day and my mom was born on Father’s Day.