Oscar winner JODIE FOSTER confiding to pals she just got offered a “ridiculous” amount of money to pen her memoirs…YAY!... but fuhgeddaboudit…BOO-HOO!... you’ll NEVER read the star’s surefire blockbuster – she turned the publisher down flat!

Said my source: “Who’s had a more gossiped-about life, from growing up as a child actor playing a streetwise hooker at age 13, to her ’80s cocaine bust – to generating headlines worldwide as the girl who inspired lovestruck lunatic JOHN HINCKLEY JR. to ‘impress’ her by attempting the assassination of PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN!”

But more than that stands in the way of “Jodie’s Journal.”

She refuses to talk about her sexual orientation, said the source, and she won’t reveal the identity of her two sons’ father.

“Jodie’s such a private person that no amount of money could tempt her to expose her life to the public.”