Overview
- Shahi’s book, Life Is Lifey: The A to Z’s on Navigating Life’s Messy Middle, was released Jan. 27 and recounts the incident in her own words.
- She writes that during a drug-fueled episode her father planned to kill her and then himself before her mother quietly disarmed him.
- The memoir describes instability tied to his addiction, including time in a women’s shelter and years of on-and-off parental reconciliation.
- Shahi says she cut contact at 22 after new threats and that he later died of an overdose when she was 35, which she grieved as the loss of hope for change.
- She characterizes the book as “half-memoir, half-lessons learned,” crediting long-term therapy and emphasizing purpose over blame.