Molly Shannon opens new memoir with accident that killed mother, sister: 'It changed our lives forever'
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- 12 Apr 2022
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Molly Shannon wasn’t afraid to throw herself onto a pile of metal chairs on “Saturday Night Live” as the overzealous Catholic school girl Mary Katherine Gallagher, who longed to be a "superstar." In real life, Shannon’s not afraid of being earnest, either.
“I feel like it's almost more exhausting to have to be ‘on’ all the time, like doing talk shows where you have to tell these funny anecdotes,” Shannon says in an interview promoting her new book, “Hello, Molly!” (Ecco, 304 pp., out now).
“I like being serious and real," Shannon says. "As my friend John C. Reilly says, 'You can be deadly serious.' I think some comedians push people away, but I don't like that. I like to feel close and connect with people and share stuff to connect.”
“Hello, Molly!" opens with a car crash in the summer of 1969 that claimed the lives of Shannon's mom, Peggy Keating; her 25-year-old cousin, Fran; and 3-year-old sister, Katie. Shannon was just 4 at the time. Her father, Jim Shannon, who had been drinking at the day's fête in honor of a family member's high school graduation, was driving the two hours home. Read More...
