AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Jaclyn Smith opens up about decades-long battle with OCD in new memoir
The 80-year-old actress best known for her role on Charlie's Angels says she has lived with an "unusual" form of obsessive-compulsive disorder since she was 12, and kept it hidden for most of her career. Jaclyn Smith traces the start of her OCD to a family tragedy. Her uncle died from the effects of alcoholism […] The post Jaclyn Smith opens up about decades-long battle with OCD in new memoir appeared first on American Almanac .
The 80-year-old actress best known for her role on Charlie's Angels says she has lived with an "unusual" form of obsessive-compulsive disorder since she was 12, and kept it hidden for most of her career. Jaclyn Smith traces the start of her OCD to a family tragedy. Her uncle died from the effects of alcoholism at 54, and the loss sent the young girl into a cycle of obsessive prayer. She began bargaining silently, praying to keep the people she loved safe, convinced that the right words in the right order could hold disaster at bay. She was 12 years old. Smith laid out the details in her newly released memoir, I Once Knew a Guy Named Charlie, published September 8, and in a companion interview with People magazine. The book covers far…Open