New Insider Deals are here, and you’re going to love them!CNN broadcast journalist Alisyn Camerota poses at the former CBGBs nightclub, now a high-end men's clothing outlet, on March 29, 2024 in New York, to promote her memoir"Combat Love: A Story of Leaving, Longing, and Searching for Home.
Camerota, who poses for a picture under a street sign marking “Joey Ramone Way” outside the old club, even details a cringe-worthy backstage encounter with the punk pioneers. “I had just a lot of loose ends emotionally,” she said. “I moved to six different houses in two years. I left sometimes before saying goodbye, and certainly left before having closure. Writing helped me put it in chronological order. Some of these stories kind of, not haunted me, but definitely followed me around begging for more attention.”“I sat them down a couple of times during the writing process and said, ‘Guys, you know the ’80s were different than it is now, right?'” she said.
Her father is dead, but Camerota's mother is 84 and lives in a nearby Connecticut town. She struggled with the idea of the stories becoming public. Camerota had talked about her resentments at an earlier time, a difficult conversation that was recounted in the book.