I've always been a fan of Justin Timberlake.

When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what's in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don't see.