Minka Kelly has recounted her shocking and abusive childhood in her gripping new autobiography, Tell Me Everything.
The Friday Night Lights actress, 42, spoke emotionally about being involved in an abusive relationship when she was 17, claiming that her then-boyfriend forced her to make a sex tape, with the star later getting pregnant.
In excerpts from her memoirs, obtained by Page sixthe star describes moving in with her high school boyfriend and his family after her mother Maureen — who died in 2008 — left their hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to avoid a possible drug bust.
Kelly, whose father is Rick Dufay, 71, a former Aerosmith guitarist, grew up in a single-parent household and previously said it wasn’t because her dad wasn’t interested in raising her.
She said, “He wanted to try and do the family thing. It was my mother who was too busy having fun.
Gripping: Minka Kelly has recounted her shocking and abusive childhood in her gripping new autobiography, Tell Me Everything (2006 photo in Friday Night Lights)
Troubled relationship: In excerpts from her memoir, obtained by Page Six , the star describes moving in with her high school boyfriend and his family after her mother Maureen — who died in 2008 — left their hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico over a possible drug bust
Kelly said her boyfriend had already “insisted” on getting graphic shots of the couple – before getting a video camera and urging Minka to “act out even raunchier scenes.”
Kelly, upon watching the video, said she was struck by how she acted “like a young child,” writing, “I barely remembered making the tape.” I had become such a master at leaving my body when things were uncomfortable.”
Her ex-boyfriend allegedly tried to sell the video to the press years later, with Kelly saying she had to pay $50,000 to buy the film back.
She said her boyfriend wanted her to have his name inked on her body, and fearing being evicted, she agreed to get a tattoo of her lip print “on the side of my pubic mound.”
She wrote: “I didn’t know I would spend the rest of my life explaining to new lovers what the purpose was, lying to everyone…I was too ashamed to admit the truth, I had been so dependent from a man I’d let him label me as [if] I was a member of the NXIVM sect.
She claims that her boyfriend repeatedly called her a “slut” for her dress sense and wanted her to have sex with a girlfriend – when she refused, he had sex with the boyfriend in front of her. The next day, Kelly found out she was pregnant.
When her mother returned, Kelly said the couple went to Planned Parenthood, where she worried about whether or not to terminate the pregnancy.
Maureen suggested they raise the baby together, to which Kelly wrote, “With what money?” Which house? Which insurance? I couldn’t imagine bringing a baby into what my mother brought me into. Absolutely not.’
Emotional: The Friday Night Lights actress, 42, spoke emotionally about being involved in an abusive relationship at the age of 17, claiming that her boyfriend forced her into making a sex tape, with the star later getting pregnant
Close now: Kelly, whose father is Rick Dufay, a former Aerosmith guitarist, grew up in a single-parent household and previously said it wasn’t because her dad wasn’t interested in raising her (pictured 2007)
‘That was it. At that moment I knew I made the right choice. Raising a child with my mother would only perpetuate this family trauma, adding another cycle to so many generations of pain. Wasn’t there enough damage already?;
She later had an abortion.
Kelly also revealed that her mother went to prison for a short period of time for transporting drugs for her boyfriend David by driving a car across the Mexican border.
Maureen moved her and Kelly to New Mexico to be with David, his family, and a host of girlfriends.
Kelly claims that David hit her by beating and whipping her with cable wire after finding out she had been using his car without permission.
She said that after the beating, David told her that the beating “hurts me more than it hurts you.”
Kelly said she tended to tell her mom and David to fuck themselves, finish high school, and move to LA to reunite with her dad.
Kelly worked as a receptionist in a plastic surgeon’s office, but was fired after she refused a boob job as payment.
She worked as a surgeon’s assistant while modeling and taking acting classes, before landing her breakout role on Friday Night Lights in 2006.
Kelly also described how her mother moved in with her and her boyfriend, but refused to get out of bed and asked for $5,000, which led to Kelly kicking her out.
Kelly and her mother mended their relationship and the actress moved her to Austin, Texas where the show was filmed. so she could care for her during her treatment for colon cancer
Kelly has previously said of her mother’s death, “That is observable. Talk about being reckless and not paying attention to your body.”
“By the time she passed, I was holding her. I was with her until her last breath. We made it.’
Elsewhere in her memoir, Kelly revealed that she underwent IVF with an unnamed boyfriend, with the star getting pregnant but tragically miscarrying.
After she and her beau broke up, the star underwent ketamine treatments that made her realize she’s “operating in my adult relationships like that scared sixteen-year-old girl’
Kelly also revealed that her mother went to prison for a short period of time for transporting drugs for her boyfriend David by driving a car across the Mexican border (Kelly and mother Maureen pictured together)
She said she sometimes believes her mother “should have aborted her” because she was unprepared to become a mother.
Previously, Kelly was in a relationship with Trevor Noah, 39. In May 2022, the couple split after dating on and off for two years.
She has been dating Imagine Dragons star Dan Reynolds, 35, since late 2022.
Reynolds himself split in September of the same year with his wife Aja Volkman, 43, of more than a decade.
Four years prior to their divorce, the couple had a seven-month separation before reconciling.
Reynolds shares four children with his ex-wife.
During their marriage, they had three daughters – Arrow, 10, and twins Gia and Coco, aged five – and a son – Valentine, three.
The two musicians were previously married from 2011 until they separated in 2022.
New man: She has been dating Imagine Dragons star Dan Reynolds, 35, since late 2022 (pictured November 2022)
In 2018, Reynolds and Volkman announced their split but never went through the divorce proceedings.
They eventually got together that year and later wrote a song together titled Bad Liar.
“I’m sorry to say that Aja and I have parted ways after many wonderful years together,” Reynolds wrote in a tweet posted in September.
“Being great parents to our kids is our number one priority,” he continued. “Thank you for always supporting us with love and care all these years.”
Minka Kelly: Tell Me Everything is out May 2