I'll Be Back Right After This: My Memoir

by Pat O'Brien

Overview

A New York Times Best seller!

Pat O'Brien was a skinny South Dakota kid with long hair, a rock and roll band, divorced parents and an alcoholic father. In all the familiar ways, he was on the road to nowhere until a professor, who envisioned his future as the household name he would soon become, dramatically changed his life.

From that day forward Pat's life took turns that were both spectacular and destructive: from the Huntley-Brinkley Report and afternoons at Bobby Kennedy's living room with Muhammad Ali to conversations with six Presidents. He did acid with Timothy Leary, drank with Mickey Mantle, and over the course of a remarkable career up close and personal with the Beatles, The Stones, The Kennedy's, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and virtually every star in Hollywood.

In I'LL BE BACK RIGHT AFTER THIS, Pat reveals the highs and lows of the life of a radio and TV broadcaster, spent sharing the mic with the world's rich and famous while battling an infamous public scandal and demons that nearly killed him. With laughter, tears and miracles he reveals how he learned to accept his mistakes, find redemption and become the father he never had, proving there really are second and even third acts in life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250021236
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/26/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	385
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Pat O'Brien is best known for his work as a sportscaster with CBS and NBC as well as his work as the anchor and host of Access Hollywood and The Insider. O'Brien covered six Olympic Games, hosted the World Series, four Super Bowls, 25 US Open Tennis Championships, and a decade of the NBA Finals and the Final Four. A former columnist for the New York Daily News and a frequent contributor on CNN, MSNBC, The Today Show, Hannity and Don Imus, O'Brien lives in Los Angeles, New York and Nantucket.

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Table of Contents

Preface: "Pat, There's This Tape" ix

1 Send in the Clowns 1

2 One Night Only 11

3 Footprints on the Prairie 23

4 "I Wanted to Get Laid, Not Jailed" 37

5 This Must Be My Lucky Day 51

6 Hotel California 71

7 You Cannot Be Serious 95

8 Float Like a Butterfly 109

9 Be Like Mike 121

10 Larry and Magic and the Mick 135

11 The Best Seat in the House 161

12 Citius, Altius, Fortius 183

13 Mr. McCartney Is Expecting You 193

14 Bad Boy for Life 207

15 We Gotta Go 219

16 Not Just Anybody 243

17 Girls 251

18 For Whom the Bell Tolls 265

19 Lets Go Crazy 275

20 Is George Clooney Dead? 295

21 Helter-Skelter 305

22 Let's Really Go Crazy 333

23 The Beginning of the Beginning 345

Acknowledgments 353

Index 357

Editorial Reviews

Pat approaches life like a mad scientist. Sometimes his alchemy yields dangerous, even combustible results. But he's taken copious notes and he's generous enough to share them with all of us. Kids, don't try this at home.” —Michael J. Fox

“Pat's book is a fine and fancy ramble through fame and pain and addiction and glory, and from it all, a terrible beauty born.” —Hall-of-Fame Sportscaster Lesley Visser

“A courageous unflinching journey through the crucible of fame and public approbation to the depths of the consequences of addiction. Pat has done it all right before our very eyes, only to find his way to an inspirational recovery. A must read textbook on the rewards of recovery.” —Dr. Drew Pinsky

“Here's why as a coach I love Pat: if he turns the ball over, he gets it back and scores. I've always been proud to have him as a friend. He's taught me a lot about what's really important.” —John Calipari, national championship-winning coach of the Kentucky Wildcats

“Pat O'Brien has spent a career telling the stories of others, in sports and in the entertainment business. Now he finally gets around to telling the best one of all, about himself. And in the end, it turns out to be a story that comes right out of the world of sports, the one about how you get back up after being knocked down.” —Mike Lupica, New York Daily News

“Rich and well-written....In addition to being quite entertaining, there's something for everyone in O'Brien's story. Sports fans will thrill to anecdotes about legends like Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson....Consumers of tabloids will enjoy the juicy tales from a host who readily admits he's a name-dropper.” —Kirkus Reviews

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