![]() “Also for people with as much ink as I have. “There’s a true stigma, a scarlet letter on people who have addiction in their past,” he explained. His Mascara Boy revelations and the tattoos that cover most of his arms and torso might frighten news directors who are otherwise impressed with Lee’s Emmy award and years of experience anchoring the news. And he’d told his agent to find him another newscasting job. Book promotions were going to be a thing for a while. Lee planned to continue his self-help podcast. I’m not a liar or an addict or a manipulator. Now, he said, he gets to really be Brandon Lee: “the most authentic version of myself I’ve ever been. Recovery programs helped him clean up his act. In one especially harrowing chapter, he details his time as a “bugchaser” - someone who’s HIV-negative but attempting to seroconvert by having sex with men who are HIV-positive. Mascara Boy keeps Lee’s career in the shadows, focusing instead on bath houses and steroid addiction. Drugs and circuit parties became the hackneyed backdrop to a success story that included news anchor positions in Boston and Atlanta. Largely ignored by his wealthy parents, Lee had turned to sex with strangers as a teenager. Restoring that sparkle had taken some time. There’s a sparkle of life back in your eyes.’” “Everyone kept saying to me, ‘You look so light. “It was so interesting being back there,” he said. The day before, he’d visited old friends in the Channel 3 newsroom. “It’s the beginning of the next part of a new journey,” Lee said as a waiter finally delivered a Perrier. The book marks the end of an era in his life, he believes. “Never will.”) Mascara Boy recounts the childhood sexual abuse that Lee said led to his adult drug and sex addictions. (“Never have,” he said with a little laugh. The book’s title refers to the assumption that Lee, who has unusually thick eyelashes, wears eye makeup. It was supposed to come out on June 25, but 10 people have already read it.” “But Amazon made a mistake and started shipping the paperback version out a week early. “I don’t know what the hell they did,” he cheerfully admitted. In fact, Lee said, it sort of already had. ![]() His self-published memoir, Mascara Boy, was about to arrive on bookshelves everywhere. He’d departed Phoenix last November after five years as news anchor at 3TV, had resettled in his hometown of Los Angeles, and launched a recovery podcast called Escaping Rock Bottom before settling in to write about drug and sex addiction and how he’d overcome them. “Then I got to five years of sobriety, and I thought, 'I’m not ready to write about my journey.'” Four years further along, Lee felt he had something to say. He’d been sitting there nearly 20 minutes, but no waiter had stopped by to take his order. “I thought when I hit five years of sobriety, I’d have enough credibility to write about it,” he explained from a corner table in a midtown bar. Writing a book had always been part of his recovery plan, newscaster Brandon Lee said last Tuesday.
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