"Someone Wants to Sue Me Over This Blog..."

Excerpt from A Brie Grows in Brooklyn

"The thing is, back when I was 18 years old, and a sophomore in college, my sister, who had just escaped from a boarding school, and was suing my parents for emancipation, called Child Protective Services on my parents and myself over 35 times. I was 18, and could have technically been given custody over her. Let me tell you — it was fucking awful."

-Excerpt from A Brie Grows in Brooklyn

"Then I think of the images I post on my own Instagram. In the pool with my big, good-looking family. On our big family estate. And I think how those images lie so hard. When I got the letter from the lawyer last week, I called my dad, and he screamed at me to calm down. My mother hasn’t talked to me in any meaningful way since. I know that there have been battles at the house when I’m not there. I know that once again, my family is choosing an unhealthy situation over supporting and loving someone who has been there for them, who is a good mother, who is trying to be a good person — that person, of course, is me. Last October, my sister moved across the street from me, bereft and in a dark state I will not elaborate on for fear of getting sued, and rather than turn her away, I helped her, I took her to the doctor, I held her in my arms, I gave her my daughter and my husband for comfort, I let her take over my life. I have few defenses because, in my heart, I want so badly for my life to be full of family and love. And my sister has repaid me with…a lawsuit."

-Excerpt from A Brie Grows in Brooklyn