Chloe Cherry is releasing a memoir.
Somewhere Dark and Hot will release on Feb. 23, 2027, via Simon & Schuster, the publishing company announced on Friday. The memoir will recount Cherry’s time working in the adult entertainment industry to her ascent into the public eye in Sam Levinson’s HBO drama.
At 18, the actress left an emotionally abusive home in Pennsylvania and began working in adult entertainment. Her world shifted when she joined the cast of season two of Euphoria, when Cherry “went from adult-industry outsider to breakout icon, challenging assumptions about who gets to cross over into Hollywood,” per the memoir’s synopsis.
“In Somewhere Dark and Hot, Chloe tells the story of how she survived it all and why she regrets none of it. Shocking, funny, and nakedly matter-of-fact, she dismantles the myths we tell about ‘good girls’ and ‘bad choices,’” the synopsis continues. “In the tradition of Julia Fox’s Down the Drain and Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died, Somewhere Dark and Hot is a raw and fearless memoir about girlhood, survival, desire, performance, and the power of owning your story.”
“Somewhere Dark and Hot is the rare memoir that is both intensely personal and culturally significant, capturing the realities of American girlhood, performance, fame, sex, and self-invention,” adds Stuart Roberts, vice president, executive editor and special projects at Simon & Schuster. “From the moment I read it, I knew readers wouldn’t be able to look away. Like Chloe herself, the book is disarmingly honest, wildly funny, and full of hard-earned truths.” Roberts acquired World English, audio with the author narrating, and first serial rights from Joe Veltre of The Gersh Agency.
Cherry appeared as Faye in seasons two and three of Euphoria, and recently reflected on the end of the series in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
“[Euphoria] made me perceive myself in a completely new way. I was, for the first time in my life, appreciated for my mind. I was appreciated for being funny. I was appreciated for coming up with lines. It was the first time in my whole life that I felt appreciation for my brain and not just everything being about, I don’t know — it was so great for me to go through this transformation,” Cherry said of how the show changed her. “It completely changed my life trajectory forever to realize that I actually am smart enough to do things. It just makes me realize it’s never too late to be what you might’ve been.”
