JoJo’s new memoir details the singer’s “full-blown addiction” to love and sex, as well as her experience with a binge-eating disorder.
The 33-year-old Leave (Get Out) singer, real name Joanna Noelle Levesque, reveals in Over The Influence the darker sides of her relationships with people, food and herself.
“I was in a full-blown addiction to love and validation, sex and stimulation,” JoJo writes of her time in 2016, per Us Weekly.
This led her to eventually cheat on her boyfriend at the time, former pro-soccer player Freddy Adu, with one of his friends.
“I was feeding my addiction and biding my time before telling my man that I was the worst person in the world,” she writes in the memoir, released Tuesday (Sept 17).
“The sabotage switch flipped ... What was I if not a sucker for self-betrayal and overindulgence? Somehow, I convinced myself it didn’t matter.”
JoJo’s need for validation extended to her career, for which she “came so close to doing damn near anything,” even if that meant having a PR relationship while in a real romance – “as long as no one got hurt.”
“How gross,” she later felt. “What the f— was I thinking???”
JoJo also opens up about her eating disorder, noting that while she sometimes “wished (she) had the willpower and discipline to be anorexic,” she ultimately turned to binge eating.
“Binge eating was counterproductive to my entire life structure, and yet, at the end of the night, I feel like a bottomless pit and wanted to gobble up everything in sight like Ms. Pac-Man, trying desperately to fill the void I felt from not being good enough.”
JoJo announced the book in June, saying it was dedicated to “anyone who has ever felt disillusioned, disconnected, but underneath it all DETERMINED to find themselves and a new way of being.” – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
