There’s a great Albert Camus quote: ‘The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.’ When I first re-emerged, I was embarrassed to walk down the street. People would come up and say, ‘I heard you were dead!’ But I had to remind myself that a lot of the stuff I went through was pretty brutal. I’m definitely thankful that some of the rough patches are behind me.
