Haynes says he worked on a heterosexual presentation for nearly 1½ years by doing things like taking classes to change his mannerisms and lose his lisp. Haynes recounts first being sexually abused by his uncle at 6-years-old and internalizing the guilt, which contributed to the “anger” Haynes carried through his life. “I just always felt like I was trying to prove something. Now, I’m almost 34, and I realized that a lot of the issues that I've had really (are) from childhood trauma.”īest selling books: 'The Office BFFs' and new Jack Carr thriller fly off the shelvesĢ0 sizzling summer books: Jennifer Weiner, David Sedaris, Michael Mann's 'Heat 2' and more
The book’s pages capture the 33-year-old’s virulent childhood with “two drug-addicted parents,” who “met in rehab and kind of escaped and had this wild love story.” His mother was an alcoholic. “I'm all good with talking about real stuff, but I'm so bad at small talk. I'm like, ‘Can we get to trauma, please?’” he says playfully over a Zoom chat. The actor, whose blue eyes and sharp jawline you might know from series “Teen Wolf” and “Arrow,” bares his soul in “ Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir” (Atria, 256 pp., out now). Colton Haynes' most raw role to date is that of author.
