I got knocked down so many times and just got back up to do it again.

“I’d say the one characteristic I have that has served me the best is perseverance,” she said.

“I just met this particular person, and I fell in love,” she said.Īs much as the book is about the rise of Elvira, it’s also about Peterson’s struggle to survive a myriad of challenges thrown her way from a childhood accident that caused burn scars on over 30 percent of her body and facing rejection in Hollywood to battling through years of verbal, physical and sexual abuse. area home where she was making arrangements to host her 70th birthday party on Sept. “Keeping a secret doesn’t feel good,” Peterson said during a recent phone interview from her L.A. In the memoir, she reveals a truth she’s been keeping close to the vest for nearly two decades: She’s been in a loving relationship with a woman, her former trainer who she refers to only as T, for 19 years. The book is filled with stories of triumph and tragedy that reveal how she transformed herself into a pop culture icon with long black-painted fingernails, a biting sense of humor and undeniable sex appeal.

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