Vanessa Williams and Mother, Helen co-write a Memoir
Vanessa Williams, the singer, actress,and beauty queen, previously starred in movies such as Eraser (1996), Soul Food (1997), and Johnson Family Vacation (2004) has written along with her mother a memoir entitled You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss (and Each Other). In this revealing memoir, Williams details her many youthful transgressions, from smoking marijuana — and definitely inhaling — to exactly what happened that summer when she posed for photos that would lead to her losing the Miss America title. Helen Williams sounds off about the challenges she and her husband had raising her strong-willed daughter.
