Heather Donahue to Talk Going From 'Blair Witch' to 'Growgirl' at Book Soup

She was the teary-faced girl in the woods, running from some unseen terror in The Blair Witch Project. That’s what all of us have known her as, and little else—until now.

Heather Donahue, 37, has become a successful marijuana farmer, and an author of Growgirl: How My Life After ‘The Blair With Project’ Went to Pot. Part memoir, and part an inspiring self-help book, Growgirl offers a personal window into self-reinvention by a rather cool person.

Donahue, actually a trained actress, doesn’t go into great detail about her struggle to “make it” after the runaway success of the independent blockbuster film. She admits people thought she was dead after her appearance in the pseudo-documentary. It took “dying” in another B-film for Donahue to decide she had to do something different. 

The entertaining book chronicles how she found a boyfriend who led her to the somewhat underground world of farming medical marijuana. She said names of the colorful characters are changed somewhat, but that no one was doing anything underhanded and everything is above the law. It's the fodder of a really good reality show, if anyone were to put a camera on her world.

This is a book that shows how people’s lives can take unexpected 180-degree turns and be far more satisfying than they imagined. And when all is lost, Donahue fights, even more strongly than she did when she was out in the woods.

Follow the story in her just-released book, and you can meet the former actress at 7 p.m. Monday at .

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