Overview
- You With the Sad Eyes was published March 3 by Little, Brown and Company, with Applegate promoting the book in emotional interviews.
- She recounts childhood trauma including sexual assault by a babysitter at age 5, domestic violence in the home, and her mother's heroin addiction.
- Applegate describes a violent relationship from her late teens and writes that she had an abortion in 1991 at age 19.
- She details severe disordered eating during her Married…With Children years, saying she often went without food and fixated on extreme thinness.
- The memoir covers her 2021 multiple sclerosis diagnosis and rapid decline that year, and includes Hollywood anecdotes such as leaving Brad Pitt for Sebastian Bach and an alleged incident involving the late director Kim Manners.