![]() ![]() ![]() "There are some people who are like, 'Okay, I'm going to try to kill myself,' and this is a very intentional thing, and that's such a tragic situation. But at the time, and it's also why I kind of kept it - in the book, I said I didn't know at the time. "When I refer to that incident with my family, we do refer to it as my suicide attempt, because I need to respect it in that way. "And so the second draft came in, and I saw these edits, and I was like, 'Hey, can I get like three pages to change this chapter?' And they let me do it, and I was just like, ' Okay, I have to put my money where my mouth is.' MENDEZ: "The first draft of the book didn't have that, because I had chickened out hard, and was just like, 'Okay, I'm going to tell this story, and tell people to open up and be brave about mental illness.' And then I chickened out and was really ashamed of myself.
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