Sarah Shahi writes about a troubling incident with her father from her childhood in her new book Life Is Lifey. Shahi writes that her father's "drug-fueled plan" was to "kill me then himself." Shahi writes that her father was "in the middle of a bad episode" when the fateful incident occurred. "He took me outside, held me on his hip, and held a gun to my head," she says. Shahi writes that her difficult episodes with her father have helped make her more resilient.