Jane Lynch Describes Epic Career Path in "Happy Accidents"

Jane Lynch was a relative unknown just a decade ago, and she's been through some very hard times in her life. But the Glee star has many more positives to discuss than ever before, and has done so in the form of a memoir, "Happy Accidents," which was released yesterday. And though she's been acting for quite some time, it hasn't been until more recently that the world is truly taking notice. She addresses just that in an interview about the new book.

Notes Lynch, "If you were to tell me five years ago that this would have happened for me, I would have told you were lying. But it just feels so right and so wonderful. I think if that had happened for me younger, I would be so unstable in my energy, fearful that it would all be taken away." Lynch's book is based on a series of speeches that Lynch has made to gay organizations, and touches on a wide variety of issues, including growing up in a loving family and her troubles with drinking, which she quit entirely in 1991.

Notes Lynch, "I wasted a lot of time not liking what is." But she changed then when she began to look at things quite different, and notes, "I said yes to everything, even though I thought I should be over here or over there, and I ended up getting a better life than I ever imagined for myself. It looks like a series of happy accidents when it was really just me kind of saying yes and being really prepared."