When Dame Julie Andrews stops by for a few of Rachael's scones, she shares that her new book, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, reveals a side of her that many people don't know -- and might be shocked to discover! "A lot of people I think know a fair amount about me after Mary Poppins," she tells Rachael, "but they don't know how it all began." In addition to tales of how she learned to sing and her struggles to make it to Broadway, the book mentions many humorous moments, like when she had to deal with the advances of one of her handsome co-stars, Richard Burton! (Watch the video above.)

Julie explains why it took her so long to put her story to paper. "My day job kept getting in the way, " she jokes. "Secondly, I didn't want to offend anybody, I didn't want to hurt anybody. But now all my family has passed away -- except my brothers and sisters, of course. We all talked about it, and I finally decided to do it, with the help of my lovely daughter Emma, who helped enormously and who was so interested in the war years and all the things that I write about that she knew nothing about ... What a thrill for me that she cared to know and wanted to learn about."

Rachael asks how the rest of the family has responded to the book. "I think they're pleased," Julie tells her. "I know that they were curious and they didn't know some of my stories. I hadn't spoken about a lot of it to anybody. The thing that I think is so amazing and I wanted to write about it and the reason it's in there is that my parents made a quantum leap from their beginnings. My grandmother was a lady called a tweeny at 11 years old -- she got up at four o'clock in the morning to make the fires for the servants to be able to function so they could do their chores around the house for the people who lived upstairs. And then my parents made a quantum leap from their beginnings and then I made a second quantum leap. It's such a miracle to me that these kind of wonderful things can happen."