“I was closer to Carrie than almost anyone else in the world, except my wife. Charlie, her best friend, confronted her more directly and told her she needed to quit drugs … I took a different approach and did them with her, pretending to myself that I would guide her to redemption one day—just not today. As a result, her—daughter Billie blames me in part for her death, and no longer speaks to me.”
It must be pointed out that the author billed the book as a "non-memoir" and it is considered a fact/fiction mash-up and riotous rollercoaster of self-deprecation, name-dropping and shaggy-dog fantasy that is James Blunt’s autobiography, titled Loosely Based On a Made-Up Story.
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Blunt is a musician once infamous for his soppy songs, now better known for his sword-sharp social media retorts to detractors. Blunt tweeted his 2.2 million followers, over a video of him laughing uproariously at his own book: “Oh dear. Think I’m gonna get cancelled.”
As I intimate my desire to fact-check a few other stories in the entirely self-written tome, Blunt halts me in my tracks.
“Before we go on, I’ll struggle to tell you what’s true and what’s not. Just because it’s nice for me to be ambiguous. It’s not a memoir. It’s a non-memoir.”
Whatever Loosely Based On a Made-Up Story is or isn’t, it’s certainly not unentertaining. It’s full of ripping yarns about the “inbred” Blounts. About his establishing an officer-class male escort business. His experiences in Kosovo. Entanglements with Bill Clinton and Elizabeth Taylor. That time when he blocked the toilet in Jamie Foxx’s hotel room and so, on the advice of old uni chum Bear Grylls, swallowed his own “party poo”.
Loosely Based On a Made-Up Story will be enjoyed by people despite their best intentions, just like his music is. There are moving songs about his wife Sofia, his two young children and Carrie Fisher, the late actress who was best friend, benefactor and godmother to his first-born.
source: Yahoo