It's called "The Perfect Art of Imperfection: My Life So Far."

So far Michael Fairman has a review on it, and, It's a bit shocking what she says about what went down on DAYS during her last stint and how it affected her.

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Maybe it's just me, but I found it strange that the whole Bo/Hope/Carly story played out with very little interaction between Carly and Hope. Maybe it was bad writing or Days' new shooting schedule, but something seemed not right. The kind of not right where one actor might not want to work with another actor kind of not right. Then she became the town pariah and then a drug addict digging through trash cans. C'mon this was Katerina Von Leuschner, the actress got on somebody's bad side.

I remember CC praising the "Carly hooked on drugs" story.

As I've said before, if you're going to be a bitch, at least have the goods to back it up. Those three were glorious on GUIDING LIGHT, so if they ever pulled any diva routines, they were justified.

OK. I'll relax off that reassurance.

As I've said before, if you're going to be a bitch, at least have the goods to back it up. Those three were glorious on GUIDING LIGHT, so if they ever pulled any diva routines, they were justified.

Maeve also allegedly had to put up with some real ugliness on AW and probably on GL too. If she was a bitch over something like protecting her character, then good for her. The main reason Vanessa wasn't run into the ground was because Maeve knew when to leave.

I remember GL as having many strong, complex male characters, far more than most soaps. Characters who respected women but also stood up to them. If there was some raging attitude of sexism onset, then it presumably never got to actors like Zaslow, Grant Aleksander, etc. considering that they weren't exactly known for being pushovers.

She's always played the victim. For as long as I can remember, she's had some dark story about what happened at her last job and how circumstances colluded to throw her out.

I loved CC on OLTL, I liked her on GL and at times I have liked her on DAYS. And I have no doubt that at least elements of what she said about her time at DAYS and with Kristian Alfonso and Ken Corday are likely very true. And if that's so, then it was wrong. But Kristian Alfonso, whatever her faults, has always taken the high road in public. She's never gotten in the gutter. Crystal Chappell, OTOH, never, ever gets her [!@#$%^&*] together, and then blames it all on the soaps she works on when she's just "too real" for them. She gets rip roaring drunk on Twitter with a bunch of lusty fangirls and Nelson Branco and goes on an embarrassing semi-public rampage, then tries to pretend like she had no part in this kind of foolishness. When you're making Kim Zimmer (who I believe she also trashed in her book, whereas in her own bio Kim is hardest on herself and doesn't trash any co-stars) look like the soul of grace and discretion, you know that you are the problem, no one else. Chappell's her own worst enemy. She makes it easy to end up repeatedly unemployed, coasting on fumes from a dead soap opera and a gaggle of overinvested lesbians who she increasingly panders to as opposed to building any kind of viable future career or employment opportunities. It's embarrassing to witness.

a million 1+ to this.

I don't know why I am shocked at her pandering to make another buck (or 9) off of the those over-invested lesbians (hasn't she taken enough of their money) but its just becoming more and more sad.

It appears that Crystal doesn't have many fans here, which is fine. What she does off screen, who she tweets with, etc. doesn't really matter.

I think someone needs to give the entire Days cast and Ken Corday a wakeup call. The 90s are over, you aren't #2 in the ratings and you aren't one of NBC's most profitable shows any longer. You're on the last place, worst written, worst produced show. Suck it up, leave your egos and issues, and who you will and won't work with, and salary demands at the door. Work together to get the show in a place where maybe you can get some of those niceties back, but until then shut the f up and do your job.

I agree, but I doubt this autobiography will do much of that. It sounds like CC was a huge problem backstage in both her runs as Carly.

OK. I'll relax off that reassurance.

There are no words to describe how much I loathe New York/Tiffany!

BOT: I'm just not sure why I am supposed to care about CC's memoirs? Someone sell me on this, please.

Well, she shows her ass on the cover, if you're into that.

I actually liked her quite a bit on GL and it's just been a long ugly slide since. It's like Lindsay Lohan does daytime (again).

I really don't think the DAYS actors have egos [anymore]. Whatever diva 'tudes they once may have had (Deidre, Kristian, Susan Seaforth-Hayes) in the past, I think they're all pretty much teamplayers by now. They know it's 2013 and they're lucky the show is still on the air, they were all excited for the little 2011 reboot, Hall and Hogestyn more than likely returned at a fraction of what they used to be paid, Alfonso and Reckell took steep paycuts in 2009, Doug & Julie are lucky to get cameo appearances, Joe Mascolo isn't getting offers to join any other soap and is taking the scraps DAYS is giving him. In all honesty (and this isn't meant to begin another actor bashing), the only DAYS actor who seems to have clout in recent years is Alison Sweeney (i.e. constant frontburner storyline, chances to direct, chances to write, has a successful primetime gig).

Edited January 5, 201312 yr by Gray Bunny

So all this talk about diva attitudes and bakstage difficulties makes me wonder. Between 1995 - 1998 Days was sitting at number 2 in the overall ratings, a position it hadn't held consistently before (or possibly since the 70's). It seems pretty clear that the show devoted a large chunk of screen time to Marlen/John/Kristen, and I feel Dee, Drake and Eileen helped carry the show through its success. Though it was quite an ensemble show at the time, the trio seemed extremely important to the ratings.

Was there ever any problems between them or resentment or jealousy from others. I know other actors received attention in the soap press so maybe it wasn't a big deal, but just curious.

I remember reading somewhere that Kristian Alfonso was jealous of Eileen Davidson's airtime or if it was that she played several characters. Don't know if it's true or not but it was around the same time that Kristen and Susan left that the Princess Gina story started.

In a similar vein, I remember rumors of Deidre Hall feuding with/jealous of CC during Round 1 of CC's Days tenure because of CC's overwhelming air time. That seems to be the "thing" that gets passed down from feuding actor to feuding actor.