Comes From Upbringing Podcast With Brad Gilmore

LONG WAY HOME (on-sale October 22nd) is remarkable for its candor about growing up in a Hollywood royal family and for the unflinching portrait of a life lost to both addiction and crime. Kirkus Reviews calls Cameron Douglas’s book “consistently unadorned…an affecting memoir of crime and punishment…a tale full of horrors and redemption and an ideal text for scaring at-risk youth straight.” Cameron is the son of Michael Douglas and grandson of Kirk Douglas. Theirs was like any other family, except Cameron’s mom, Diandra, had a menagerie of strange pets including a semi-leopard that would pounce on visitors and a monkey that would steal car keys and cigarettes. Also, Cameron’ s dad was perhaps the greatest movie star of his era (Cameron’s first exposure to fame was being slung naked over Michael’s shoulder on the cover of Rolling Stone). This book is infused with jet-setting players and far-flung locales – Jack Nicholson, Jann Wenner, Sean Lennon, Mallorca, Hollywood, and New York – and the accompanying lifesty