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Why This 2000s ‘It Girl’ Felt Freedom Exposing All Her Biggest Secrets In Her New Memoir · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Actress Mina Savari has
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Speaker 1: a new memoir called The Great Piece where she tells
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Speaker 1: her story, including the rise to fame in Hollywood in
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Speaker 1: the late nineties with starring roles in American Beauty and
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Speaker 1: American Pie. And she doesn't hold back any of the
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Speaker 1: darker chapters of her life, including various forms of abuse.
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Speaker 1: But rather than being fearful of sharing such intimate details
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Speaker 1: of her story, she actually feels the opposite, telling l
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Speaker 1: I found freedom and talking about these things, and I
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Speaker 1: love having conversations about them. It's like therapy with the world.
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Speaker 1: I'm fine with using myself as an example. Why did
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Speaker 1: I lose so much time trying to please people? I
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Speaker 1: spent my whole life trying to be something that I
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Speaker 1: thought I needed to be. We don't have to live
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Speaker 1: in that space. It's an important conversation around fear and
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Speaker 1: holding ourselves back. Maybe that can be shared through my story.
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Speaker 1: Her memoir, The Great Pieces out now that's Direct from Hollywood.