Courtney Thorne-Smith, who I will always remember as that whacked out Alison from “Melrose Place” has just penned a novel titled “Outside In:”

the characters include a vulnerable TV star, a philandering husband and a callous mom. None of them is plucked directly from her own life, the actress says firmly.

“I know people are going to think it’s autobiographical,” Thorne-Smith said. But the cad is not her ex-husband and the dreadful mother is “so comically not my mom. My mom would crawl over hot coals to have lunch with me.”