Placed in the foster care system as a teen and struggling to read at a basic level in ninth grade, Haddish found that humor and jokes helped her endure. When offered a choice between the Laugh Factory comedy camp and counseling to help recover from issues within the foster system, she chose the former and found her calling. In her first book, Haddish recounts her early life through to her powerhouse success on the comedy circuit and in Hollywood with the 2017 film Girls Trip.