Jim McGreevey is more than the former governor of New Jersey and more than an It-guest at the most gauche gay soirees. He’s about to become what so many hope and dream of: a published author. (And with a huge advance, he’ll also become a reported $500,000 richer.)
The proud “gay American” is ramping up his publicity tour for The Confession, his tell-all memoir that, by all accounts, includes some titillating details — like his admission to anonymous sex up at highway reststops before his governor stint.
“All I knew was that my behavior was getting crazier and crazier,” McGreevey says of his torrid truck-stop trysts in an upcoming book that details his tortured life of lies and sexual repression.
“With each new encounter, I was getting nearer and nearer to being caught – which surely would have generated headlines, especially after I became executive director of the state parole board” in the mid-1980s.
An interesting account, certainly. And as well all know, sex sells. Especially hardcovers. Some other interesting bits from his pages:
• He tried to overcome his homosexuality with Playboy centerfolds
• After resigning as governor, he spent time at a psychiatric hospital
• When he was younger, he considered entering the Catholic priesthood as a young to escape his gay feelings
• He screwed around with girls while attending an all boys high school, but wasn’t interested in them sexually
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marc j
Now we just wait for the memoirs from all those guys he hooked up with in Jersey. If only they had camera phones back then!
Allan
Gee and all I got when I came out the closet was the love and support of my family and friends. As well as the freedom of being out, loud and proud.
But, that is old school. These days when you come clean you should either go on Oprah or write a book about it and rake in the mula. I wonder if he’ll tell the details of the scandal that got him outed. That trick of his did not treat him well.