Michael Buble Was Reluctant to Release New Memoir

Michael Buble has admitted to Jam that he thought twice about releasing his new memoir, Onstage Offstage.

The 36-year-old crooner confessed he was confused about “why people would want pictures of me” (the book is two-thirds pictures, one-third prose). In the end, he was urged to finish the book by his manager, who felt it was a chance for Buble to let people know who he was:

“The way (my manager) talked me into it was he said, ‘Listen, kid, you always complain that people don’t who you really are … Why don’t you go do this thing, do the photos, and you can tell your fans a little bit about what you’re thinking. Who Michael Buble is. The good, the bad.'”

Yes, the bad. Despite the fact he deals in innocent, middle-of-the-road pop fluff, we shouldn’t be fooled by this nicey-nice image. Apparently, bad boy Buble has a temper on him, and tells Jam! about a “verbal run-in” with an Irish lawyer in his hotel bar the previous night.

Onstage Offstage is something of a confessional then, with Buble noting:

“Let me own up to this stuff. How am I going to get better if I don’t own up to this stuff?”

The book hits stores Tuesday, though apparently doesn’t cover much of Buble’s relationship with British actress Emily Blunt, which ended in 2008. If you want to help brave, bad Buble face up to his temper issues, you could buy it, maybe.

For more Bublean reflections on life, love, marriage, children and his new collection of Canadian country songs (starring Shania Twain!), hit up the full interview at Jam.