Lisa Curry reveals the story she left out of her memoir

Lisa Curry has revealed the one story she purposely took out of her new memoir, and how ex-husband Grant Kenny reacted when she offered him the manuscript.

While Lisa Curry has opened up extensively about her life in her new memoir, she admits she purposely left some stories out of the book.

Speaking on Brisbane radio on Thursday the Queensland swimming champion said she and her close circle went through the book and took out some stories in a bid to protect other people involved – including one tale about marijuana.

“There were a few stories where we’d think should we write that, should we name that person … what’s the consequences of this story,” she told B105’s Stav, Abby & Matt.

“There’s a few in there that we took out. The one where I had marijuana cookies. We took that out.”

When probed for details by the B105 breakfast hosts, she replied: “It was just a funny incident that happened. It was nothing.”

Lisa Curry has released a memoir. Photo: Instagram

Curry wrote about many difficult topics in her book – A memoir – 60 years of life, love & loss – including undergoing a teen abortion, her marriage to Grant Kenny and the heartbreaking death of her daughter, Jaimi, in September 2020.

She told B105 that she asked Kenny to read the manuscript before it was published, but he declined.

“There were two really hard chapters for me to write, clearly the one about Jaimi at the end but also the chapter about Grant,” Curry said.

“I found that really hard to write because we are still really close and I asked him if he wanted to read the manuscript, particularly to get his approval about what I wrote about Jaimi, but he couldn’t do it. He just couldn’t even look at the words.”

“The most important thing is that Grant and I are still really good friends,” Curry, who has since remarried, continued, adding with a laugh, “I just don’t sleep with him.”

Lisa Curry with her late daughter Jaimi Kenn. Picture: Lisa Curry/Instagram

Curry said her publishers pushed her to write the memoir at the difficult time in the wake of Jaimi’s death after a battle with addiction and an eating disorder, and she struggled to read the words while recording her audio book.

“It was actually really good but it came at a really bad time to write the book. It was very close after my daughter passing,” she said. “I wouldn’t have done it if my publishers didn’t push me because I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t function.”

“I couldn’t even read out a sentence. I was going comma to comma and having to breathe all the way through. It was a really awful experience.”

In saying that I’ve had so many people contact me …. Who have said it’s really helped their children.

“There are some people who struggle with it every day and there are people like Jaimi who actually couldn’t face another day, and couldn’t get through it.”

“I want Jaimi’s life to have mattered to us and to everyone else.”

Lisa: A memoir – 60 years of life, love & loss by Lisa Curry with Ellen Whinnett was published by Harper Collins on May 2.