Podcast
Call Her Daddy
The book was highlighted as an honest, vulnerable account of the singer's experiences with sexual abuse, blackmail, online bullying, and a borderline personality diagnosis, aiming to foster empathy and kindness. Alex Cooper and Madison discussed how the memoir powerfully captured the trauma of fame and the steps the author took to protect herself online, praising its impact. The conversation conveyed strong endorsement of the memoir's candid storytelling.
Episode: Madison Beer: Blackmailed With My Nudes (FBF) [VID...
Madison's memoir The Half of It delves into her personal struggles with sexual abuse, blackmail, and online bullying, which ultimately led to a borderline personality diagnosis. She shares her experiences in an honest and vulnerable way, hoping to encourage empathy and kindness among readers.
It feels like my entire life's journey thus far has been a perfectly crafted cocktail of situations that landed me at this borderline personality diagnosis. As if my biography could be written and titled, "How to Give Someone BPD, a step-by-step guide."
I think that when I read, you know, when you read something about like your astrological sign, you're like, that's so me. I feel like when I first discovered not only what BPD was, but how one can become diagnosed with it or what the things that have to sort of happen to a young developing mind in order to whatever, I literally was like, this is, this is, this feels scripted.
I know, I knew that it was the right diagnosis for me when I, when I was diagnosed with it because of course it just felt so right. But I just, yeah, I couldn't, it just felt like I was like, was this the goal in my life? Was for people to like give me this disorder? I don't understand it.
I really appreciate you saying that it's just hard to, it's hard to like think about my younger self. Sometimes I get really emotional about it because I just feel like I, of course, I'm really grateful for the place that I'm in and I'm really grateful for like the insight that I've been given and all of that stuff. But I just, I think about my younger self who, it just, I don't, yeah, there was so many times where it felt like the only way out was to end it.
And I just, I don't know. I just feel like I am grateful for sure for everything because I feel like I wouldn't be the person I am today if literally everything didn't happen. But it's hard to come to terms with a lot of these things and it's hard to not feel bitter, I think, towards people. Because, and that's the biggest thing that like my therapist who's amazing always says to me and she's like, I'm so glad that you've never turned cold to people and you're still like warm and fuzzy and friendly and you wanna be friends with everyone and you still have like faith in people.
Episode: Madison Beer: Blackmailed With My Nudes [VIDEO]
It was discussed in detail, as it was written following Madison's experiences in the spotlight and the struggles she faced, and how it impacted her mental health.
You just released your memoir, the half of it. And I am so happy for you because again, I feel like the internet has a way to like dehumanize people to come up with narratives and storylines. And like it really was powerful reading your book. I read the whole thing.
In your memoir, you write about one of the most traumatic experiences that you experienced in your rise of fame and your career.
I also discussed this in my book I had to hire a web sheriff is something that I didn't even know existed out of my own money every dollar I'd earned up until that point in my career I then spent on clearing this and scrubbing it from the internet.
It feels like my entire life's journey thus far has been a perfectly crafted cocktail of situations that landed me at this borderline personality diagnosis as if my biography could be written and titled how to give someone BPD a step-by-step guide.
I'm like how to give someone it like this shit happened to you but you're alive and you're here and you've like powered through thankfully.