Trisha Paytas Releases Memoir Detailing YouTube and Podcast Conflicts
Internet personality Trisha Paytas released her memoir Crying on the Kitchen Floor: A Memoir on Wednesday opening up about her decades-long presence on YouTube and her high-profile conflicts with former collaborators.
The Empire State Building lit up in hot pink and light pink on November 10 to celebrate the book’s launch in partnership with Grand Central Publishing of Hachette Book Group, according to an Empire State Building announcement. Paytas flipped the light switch at a special lighting ceremony before touring the 86th and 102nd Floor Observation Decks.
Paytas has been cancelled 1,000 times, noted The Washington Post in an interview with Shane O’Neill where she discussed things she wishes she could erase from the internet. Her eclectic resume includes work as a comedian, internet troll, musician, cosplayer, video producer, podcast host, and one-time seller of her own skin cream, according to the same report.
Born in Riverside, California, Paytas amassed over 40 IMDb credits—ranging from a bit character in Nathan For You to playing Jessica Simpson in Eminem’s music video for We Made You—before finding a niche on YouTube at age 22, Vulture reported. She has since posted over 2,000 videos on the platform.
The memoir touches on the toxic on-and-off relationship with former Vine star Jason Nash, which ended on Paytas’s 31st birthday. After Nash missed her birthday party, Paytas wrote that she got drunk on a “meth hangover,” blacked out, and drove her G-Wagen onto his lawn, where she passed out naked for hours.
“You’d also think that if I caused serious damage, he’d have filed a police report, or at the very least documented it by taking a few pictures,” Paytas wrote, questioning whether Nash’s claims that she crashed into his house were entirely accurate. “To this day, I’m not really sure what the truth is.”
The book also details the explosive conclusion of the Frenemies podcast hosted by Paytas and Ethan Klein. Launched in September 2020 through a 55-45 revenue split on main episodes and sponsors, the show brought in roughly $180,000 a month for Paytas at its peak, though she claimed she never saw a dollar from the much higher-earning highlights channel controlled by Klein.
The podcast ended following a fight during their 39th recorded episode. Complicating matters further, Paytas married Moses Hacmon, who is the brother of Ethan Klein’s co-host and wife, Hila Klein. Hila banned Moses from their house after a major fight, though Moses continued visiting Paytas during filming.
“It seemed more likely to me that the real reason Ethan didn’t want to release the episode was because he realized keeping the beef going was better for business,” Paytas wrote in the memoir.
Following the podcast’s cancellation in 2021, Paytas took a two-year break from podcasting. Juana Summers talked with Trisha Paytas about the memoir and what it has been like to share her life on YouTube since she was 18 years old, NPR reported.
“Ethan could only affect me if I let him,” Paytas wrote of moving past the feud. “And goddamnit, I couldn’t give him that power anymore. Not if I wanted this life to be my own.”
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