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Bret Michaels Writes Tell-All Book About Diabetes 'n' Rock 'n' Roll

1:33 p.m. · March 12, 2009 · by Andrew Winistorfer

Is anyone still watching Bret Michaels' Rock Of Love show anymore? Seriously, are there people still interested in basking in the glow of Michael's bronzer and obvious garish wig, watching Michaels as he tries to get former strippers to love/bone him?

Well, Michaels and Simon & Schuster are betting people are still interested in him--Michaels has written a tell-all book, Roses and Thorns: The Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy to My Reality, which talks about his time dressing as a woman and sleeping with lots of women in Poison, his dealings with diabetes (probably didn't interfere with the dressing like a woman and sleeping with lots of women part), and his reality show fame (see parenthetical aside regarding diabetes).

Here's what Michaels had to say regarding the book:

"It will give people the untold story," Michaels tells Billboard.com. "It gives you the sex, the drugs, the rock 'n' roll, but it also gives you the diabetes. It gives you every aspect of my life and what I'm going through. I think it's pretty frank. It's honest. It's at times self-deprecating. It's about what happens when you try to live out your dream and the reality of it all sets in and it's the hardest and the strangest thing you will ever do. I think when you read it you'll really get the understanding of what it's all about." 

Yeah, I'm sure it's "hard" dressing like a woman and then subsequently sleeping with lots of women as a member of a band that can be used as a reference for why hair metal was vapid and worthless. Diabetes doesn't make anything harder--it actually makes things sweeter (hah!). Michaels' life is about as hard as Miley Cyrus' dealings with "bullies" I suspect.

Michaels also says that his arguments with CeCe DeVille will feature prominently which I imagine will read like Dostoevsky. The book is out in June. [Billboard]