Jaclyn Smith details health battles and personal life in new memoir

In her new memoir, ‘I Once Knew a Guy Named Charlie’, actress Jaclyn Smith reflects on her career and personal life, including her rise to fame on ‘Charlie’s Angels’ and the challenges of celebrity.

Smith details a significant health crisis from 2002, when a routine mammogram led to a Stage 1 breast cancer diagnosis. She describes undergoing a lumpectomy and subsequent radiation therapy while continuing to film the television drama ‘The District’.

The memoir also addresses personal betrayals, specifically the end of her first marriage to actor Roger Davis. Smith recounts discovering that Davis had an affair with their real estate agent, Laura, after being informed by the agent's husband. She describes the emotional impact of the infidelity and the difficulty of navigating fame, including instances of receiving threatening phone calls during her pregnancy.