It’s been seven years since their divorce, and now Sadie Frost, actress and ex-wife of Jude Law, is releasing Crazy Days, a tell-all memoir highlighting everything from how the couple met, married, and split, to her severe postpartum depression, cutting, and time in a mental institution.

The memoir won’t hit shelves for a few more days, but it’s already been the source of some legal drama when, according to The Huffington Post, Jude Law “issued a 100-page writ last month demanding that all passages of the book referring to their marriage be removed. He got a settlement in court.”

I’m not quite sure what that means exactly (he won? he got some money to deal with it? what?), but according to TV.com, Frost puts a lot of blame on Law for her past mental health troubles.

Hmm.

I haven’t read the book, so I don’t know how true that is, but you can read a lengthy piece on Crazy Days written by Sadie herself over at the UK’s Daily Mail Online, during which Frost talks about the American agent who advised her to seek help, the horror she felt in the psychiatric hospital, the counselor who helped her come to terms with her past, and the stigma that still remains attached to depression.

Whenever the ex-significant other of someone significantly more famous comes out with a celebrity memoir, there always seems to be a few naysayers out there who believe the author is trying to cash in on his or her ex’s name. (Such was the case with a few critics of Mary Weiland’s memoir, Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and Mental Illness, which dealt a lot with her ex-husband Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver.)

What do you think? Sound like a memoir you’d be interested in?

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