Nonfiction1. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio)2. Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown, narrated by the author (Random House Audio)3.
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Molly Shannon’s comedic characters came from grief.
“Superstar” Mary Katherine Gallagher, the beloved “Saturday Night Live” character, was inspired by Shannon’s experience after her mom, younger sister and cousin were killed in a car accident when she was 4-years-old.
In her new memoir, Hello, Molly!, the star detailed how she dealt with grief.
“I’m a lot like Mary Katherine Gallagher. I’m a survivor,” she writes, as per People.
In 1969, her dad had been drinking and drove the family home when he sideswiped a car before driving into a steel pole. Shannon’s mom, sister Katie, 3, and cousin, Fran, all died. Shannon, her dad and sister Mary, 6, survived.
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“The car was mangled badly on impact. A man passing the scene stopped. My mother was lying on the ground beside our car and she asked him, ‘Where are my girls?’ ” Shannon writes. “She wanted to gather her three little girls and she couldn’t. Her heart must have broken in that moment. And those were her final words.”
Shannon remembered wanting to see her mom in the hospital but a family member had to tell her that she was dead. “I didn’t know what death was. I just wondered, ‘Why did Mommy and Katie leave without me? Maybe I’m bad.'”
Being raised by a single father, Shannon built “character”– “It gave me so much freedom later as a performer.”
Once in university, Shannon first started Mary Katherine Gallagher while studying drama.
“I was doing the character as a very nervous person — an exaggerated version of myself and how I felt,” she recalled. “Mary Katherine wants to be a star and she wants to be seen and she wants her mom to come back from the
Nonfiction1. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio)2. Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown, narrated by the author (Random House Audio)3.
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Molly Shannon is opening up about her experience with Gary Coleman.
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Speaking out. Molly Shannon accused the late Gary Coleman of sexually harassing her during a meeting when she was younger.
Molly Shannon has alleged she was sexually harassed by "Diff'rent Strokes" actor Gary Coleman years ago. Shannon, 67, recently appeared on "The Howard Stern Show," where she opened up about an encounter with Coleman that took place at the Plaza Hotel in 1987.The incident is also something she details in her new book, "Hello, Molly!" Speaking of the encounter, Shannon said she and Coleman shared the same agent, Mark Randall.The three met for tea at the Plaza and while there, Shannon confirmed Coleman invited her up to his hotel suite. She said she was thinking nothing of it. "And I was a virgin so I wasn't even thinking about that," Shannon said.
Zack Sharf Molly Shannon said on a recent episode of “The Howard Stern Show” (via People) that she was sexually harassed by comedian and “Diff’rent Strokes” star Gary Coleman. The “Saturday Night Live” veteran also detailed the alleged incident in her new memoir, “Hello, Molly!” Shannon said she had just signed with Coleman’s manager at the time and got the chance to meet him at his penthouse hotel room.“I think he was like, ‘Sit down [on the bed].’ It was very sweet,” Shannon said. “And then he’s, like, tickling me a little.
Gary Coleman wasn’t always as “cute” as he seemed, according to Molly Shannon.
Molly Shannon is opening up about her unpleasant experience with Gary Coleman.
“Hello Molly!: A Memoir,” and stopped by Howard Stern’s eponymous radio show Tuesday.Shannon collaborated with Houston — who died in 2012 at age 48 — on a “Saturday Night Live” sketch in the ’90s involving the former’s infamous Catholic schoolgirl character, Mary Katherine Gallagher.The “Wet Hot American Summer” actress described to the shock jock, 68, how the sketch involving Houston came to be.“Whitney was so nice. They’re like, she’s not going to be in the sketch. She’s not going to do it,” Shannon said.
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Molly Shannon is looking back at her early days in Hollywood!
Hello Molly,” out Tuesday, how she was visiting Los Angeles in 1987 and had just been signed by Coleman’s agent, Mark Randall. Coleman had just left his sitcom and was still hugely popular.“I was over the moon,” writes Shannon, then an NYU student. “If he signs me, I thought, his clients will be me and Gary Coleman! I’ll have a talent agent who represents Gary Coleman.”In the fall of 1987, when Shannon was back in school, Randall asked if she wanted to meet him and Coleman for tea at the Plaza Hotel.
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