In Anjelica Huston's memoir A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London and New York, the actress discusses her tumultuous past, including one time where she sliced her wrist for attention.
According to Hollywood.com, Huston dated celebrity photographer Bob Richardson. She writes that he suffered from mental health issues.
During one of Richardson's bouts of depression, the much younger Huston felt helpless and slit her wrists just trying to get the photographer's attention.
"I never felt so fragile or vulnerable as when Bob became demonic and flew into a rage, or worse, when afterward he retreated into his shell," Huston writes. "One morning, four days into one of these ordeals, I walked into the bathroom at the Chelsea [Hotel] and, in desperation, drew a razor blade across my left wrist. I ran back into the bedroom, blood spurting from the vein, crying to him: 'Will this make you love me?'"
According to The Daily Mail, the book described how the 42-year-old photographer was bi-polar and schizophrenic and caused the couple no end of trouble.
A Story Lately Told, the first part in a two part biography, talks about how Richardson berated the 18-year-old Huston and threw a bottle of tequila at her head for not being pregnant and thus a "real woman."
A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London and New York is out on book stands Tuesday.
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