Actor and comedian Leslie Jones stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers to discuss her new memoir, Leslie F*cking Jones.
The Saturday Night Live alum’s book, published in September by Grand Central, tells the story of her childhood and her career in comedy. A critic for Kirkus praised it as “refreshingly candid, gritty, and real.”
Meyers asked Jones if her editors had control over her while she was writing the book.
“No!” Jones replied. “Absolutely not. They kept asking for it. It was like, Are you finished? No, I’m not finished! They fought me on everything. There’s a deadline, and I blew the deadline. I reread the whole book and rewrote the whole book, and they was like, You can’t do that! It’s my book—I can do whatever the fuck I want to!”
Meyers said to Jones, “Even you couldn’t control you. When you went in to do the audiobook, you admitted you wouldn’t even read it the way you wrote it.”
“The director was like, Um, I don’t know,” Jones said. “I was like, Girl, this is going how it’s going, girl.…I know the story, and I’m finna give you the details. I’m going to give you the real tea. They didn’t put that in there. They was trying to hide it, let me tell you.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
