Sex, drugs and the Ramones: CNN's Camerota ties up 'loose ends' from high school
A recent trip to the clothing store that replaced New York's legendary punk club CBGB's was a step back in time for CNN's Alisyn Camerota
NEW YORK (AP) — Wandering the former site of New York's famed CBGB nightclub, pointing to familiar names on band posters spread amid carefully preserved graffiti, is like being transported to a life that CNN's Alisyn Camerota has long since left behind.
The high-end apparel store there now has kept some of those artifacts to appeal to rock ‘n’ roll pilgrims, one wearing a Ramones T-shirt who wanted to see where the quartet got its start. The room is far more polished than it was four decades ago.
So is Camerota. Her recent visit isn't the only time-traveling she's done lately.
The Jersey girl has written “Combat Love,” a memoir that focuses on sex, substance abuse, effective abandonment by her parents and even brief homelessness all before she graduated high school, and the family she found with followers of a local band, Shrapnel, to help cope.
