I went to charity hockey games he played in. He was my first celebrity crush, before I even knew what that was or meant. Whenever someone asks me, 'When did you first know you were gay?' my answer is, 'The first time I saw Jason Priestley on 90210.' I was really young when I first started watching the show around 1993, and I didn't really understand a lot of the plotlines until I rewatched the early season in reruns in the early 2000s, but I was definitely enamored with Jason Priestley. Priestley shares his innermost thoughts about life as a ’90s icon, and goes beyond the Brandon Walsh squeaky-clean image, revealing the tumultuous events that have shaped him, and where he finds his greatest happiness today He does not shy away from the devastating lows-his brief jail sentence for drunk driving and the crash at the Kentucky Speedway that nearly took his life. He talks candidly about celebrity, marriage, fatherhood, and his passion for car racing. With humor, sincerity, and charm, Priestley offers little-known details about his life and stories of his nine years in America’s most famous zip code. In this compelling memoir, the actor, director, and race-car aficionado invites us into his private world for the first time. Yet despite more than twenty years in and out of the limelight, Priestley has carefully maintained his privacy.

The hit Fox show Beverly Hills, 90210 became a cultural touchstone of the 1990s and propelled its young cast to mega-stardom, including Jason Priestley, who played honorable Midwestern transplant Brandon Walsh.

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