The hills big name audrina patridge described writing her new memoir,

alternatives, as a "very freeing and healing" experience. Right here are the 

secrets she let loose. When audrina patridge headed for the hills in 2006,

she failed to know what to anticipate. And while she descended from the 

hit mtv truth display—also starring lauren conrad, heidi montag and, 

 later, kristin cavallari—after six dramatic seasons, she didn't understand what 

to do. Feeling "misplaced," the 37-yr-old recalled july 22 on e! News' day by day pop,

i didn't really know what i wanted or who i was, so i moved to the seaside. I simply needed to get out of 

And reconnect with myself and figure out, what do i want? Who am i? What's subsequent?"

All of which become dutifully chronicled by means of eager observers—however patridge assures which you were not getting the whole tale, till now.