It really is true about the excerpts being totally misunderstood. There's one much-maligned anecdote in particular, the one about her throwing back her younger daughter's homemade birthday card because it wasn't "good enough." In the book, that attitude was actually revealed as being part of the same principle behind…

I know, right? For some reason, I can't connect her with that sort of distant, Hollywood royalty sort of background. She is gorgeous, but I would never connect her appearance with Jayne Mansfield, Mariska has more of an accessible, Barbizon-model type of attractiveness. I don't mean that as a knock, she just comes…

Actually, Alyssa Ferguson is one of the four former employees, along with Lo, bringing the lawsuit against Charney.