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Leighton Meester reveals that her mom, Connie, won’t be coming out with a tell-all memoir involving her Gossip Girl – star daughter.

“The only thing that I would like to clear up is that my mom is not writing a memoir,” Leighton said during the 15th-annual Kids for Kids Carnival on Sept. 20 in NYC. “My mom is a writer, but she’s not writing a memoir. She would never write a tell-all about me or my life, or even include me at all.”

And Leighton assured us that she and her mom have a great relationship. “She’s always there for me no matter what,” Leighton said. “I had a really good upbringing.”

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As Blair Waldorf on “Gossip Girl,” Leighton Meester has perfected the art of playing an uptight Park Avenue teen queen. But Leighton’s talents lie beyond just making us love to hate her each week on the hit CW show.

As she told Access Hollywood at New York Fashion week, she is gearing up to record an album.

“I am yeah,” she said. “Technically, yeah I am. I mean, for real this time… I’ve always done [music], just now I am actually doing an album that I plan to release.”

While she has plenty of television experience thanks to “Gossip Girl” as well as guest parts on “Entourage,” “CSI: Miami” and “Shark,” Leighton told Access making an album provides an artistic variance she is enjoying sinking her teeth into.

“It’s so cool because it’s a completely different creative process,” Leighton said. “From beginning to end it’s yours and you make it… You can see the finished product. It’s sometimes hard when you’re acting to be like, ‘Oh I see the finished product right before my eyes.’ So it’s cool you’re there from start to finish when you are writing.”

In a life-imitating-art scenario, during her guest spots on “Entourage,” Leighton plays blonde preening pop star Justine Chapman, who often has her eye on star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier).

But fans of Blair needn’t worry Leighton will leave the Upper East Side for the pop world. Leighton is thoroughly enchanted by “Gossip Girl.”

“There’s so much drama it’s really crazy,” she enthused of her show. “They’re just really taking it over the top, like juicy and scandalous because that’s ‘Gossip Girl.’ That’s our show.”

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Pictured: Eva Mendes (above), Kevin Bacon with 16 year old daughter Sosie Ruth, Ellen Pompeo & husband, Cynthia Nixon, Leighton Meester, Rosario Dawson & Jared Leto.

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Lynne Spears isn’t the only celebrity mom coming out with a book about her daughter. E! News has learned exclusively that Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester’s mother Connie Meester, who gave birth to her daughter while doing time in a Texas prison for a drug-related crime, may soon be coming to a bookshelf near you.

Loch Powell, Connie’s manager, tells E! that Connie has already written her story. In fact, he says, she began writing it as a screenplay about “3 to 4 years ago.” He adds, “She’s converting it from a feature script to a memoir.”

As for Leighton’s reaction to it, he says mom and daughter are very close and she is supportive. “Leighton and her mom are very close,” he says. “Connie has had a spectacular life.”

A release date has not yet been set, nor have they yet found a publisher. The book will tell her life journey from drug ring co-conspirator to suburban Real Estate agent to author, and of course the rearing of her TV star child.

On the heels of Gossip Girl’s successful season premiere, Star Magazine reported Tuesday morning that Connie was jailed in 1985 for marijuana trafficking. The report went on to say she (along with ex-husband and Leighton¹s father Doug) were part of a family run drug ring importing the green stuff from Jamaica to the U.S. for sale.

After an FBI bust in 1985, Connie began serving over a one year sentence at a Federal Prison in Ft. Worth, Texas. Her stint was briefly interrupted in April of 1986 when she was released to give birth and nurse Leighton for twelve weeks, before shipping back to the clink where she remained until November of ¹86.

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