nothing<\/em>,\u201d she says. \u201cEven after that year, I still felt heartbroken.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tAt the time, his death coalesced with a number of other events that played into one of Wiedlin\u2019s worst episodes of struggling with mental health, stories that lie at the core of TMI<\/em>. Unlike many other books by famous musicians, this one never lingers long on Wiedlin\u2019s musical victories, and even though she references her band\u2019s name in the title, stories of the Go-Go\u2019s make up less than half its contents.<\/p>\n\n\tInstead, she details her many rocky relationships, explains how the #MeToo movement changed her life, mourns the difficulties of albums like Cold <\/em>(released with her band Frosted in 1996, during her sadly overlooked solo career), and restrains nothing about the time when she worked as what she calls a \u201cjunior dominatrix.\u201d \u201cBi is best\u201d is a philosophy she credits Bowie with teaching her. As a whole, the book is a self-portrait of not just Jane Wiedlin the musician, but Jane Wiedlin the person. \u201cPeople just see me as a Go-Go,\u201d she says. \u201cThey don\u2019t know any differently. But if they read the book, they will discover I\u2019m not just a Go-Go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tSome of TMI<\/em> can be difficult to read. She writes candidly about how she struggled with self-harm and suicidal ideation. But Wiedlin, 68, says she\u2019s now in a better frame of mind. The book reads almost like a coming-of-age story about how she discovered who she was, a quality she hopes readers can relate to.<\/p>\n\n\n \t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n
\n\t\u201cI hope that reading my book will improve their lives in some way if they\u2019re struggling with mental health stuff, if they\u2019re secretly a kinkster, have been afraid to come out, or if they\u2019re a young woman that wants to be in a band but is afraid,\u201d Wiedlin says during a wide-ranging chat. \u201cI think a lot of people could possibly benefit from reading it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tWhy was now the right time to write this book?<\/strong>\n\tWell, I know what\u2019s coming is death, but before death, who knows what kind of stuff\u2019s going to happen as far as my health and being an old lady and blah, blah, blah. So I just decided to take a chance and go for it.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn the end, I feel like I found my balance between being \u201cTMI,\u201d the title of the book, and just not throwing people under the bus or blaming other people for my mistakes and my problems. And once I took all the responsibility and put it on myself, the book became very easy to write.<\/p>\n
\n\tSince you titled it TMI<\/em>, did you ever feel like you had to hold back?<\/strong>that<\/em> was a bitch. A lot of people want to talk to me about the book, and honestly, it\u2019s a little bit shocking.<\/p>\n\n\n \t\tRelated Content<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n
\n\tWhy are you shocked?<\/strong>thrilled<\/em>. Look at my career, man. After the Go-Go\u2019s broke up in \u201985, I kept working and making music, but I didn\u2019t really have a career. I wasn\u2019t making money at it. I feel like I became relatively invisible for decades, and the only time that I wasn\u2019t was when I was with my band, the Go-Go\u2019s. So when so many people were interested in this book and interested in me, I found it shocking.<\/p>\n\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\tWhen the Go-Go\u2019s formed, you almost called the band the Misfits. Then the Kinks put out the Misfits<\/em> album. When did you finally learn there was a punk band called the Misfits?<\/strong>\n\tSomething that makes your memoir unusual is you don\u2019t give a blow-by-blow story on the making of each of your albums, whether with the Go-Go\u2019s or after. Why is that?<\/strong>\n\tWhen you quit the Go-Go\u2019s you said you\u2019d rather be a failure on your own than a success with the band.<\/strong>\n\tHow do you feel about that now?<\/strong>\n\n