00:00about figure skating is you do put on a show and you write a lot about how that can behind
00:05the
00:06scenes be be very very painful and you you really had to overcome a lot of traumas you talk about
00:11your eating disorder and for the first time in this book you talk about being raped at the age
00:16of 21 by a fellow skater in the chapter broke my heart it's called innocence lost what did it mean
00:22to you to tell this story for the first time what are you hoping it will how are you hoping
00:29it will
00:29will heal you to speak about it in a lot of ways i already healed prior to the memoir just
00:36i needed
00:36to for myself um but i had to put it in the memoir because it was a very it was
00:43a huge turning point
00:44in my life in terms of we turned and went downhill pretty quickly after that
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