Building a more compassionate society is going to be a bilateral exercise between individuals and the brands that represent their aspirations, their values and their truths. People make brands. If people are compassionate, brands will be compassionate in return.

The most potent thing we can do is to bring more compassion online.

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

You can insist on a different end to the story.

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.

Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.