At 3, I played an innocent game of doctor, minus the stethoscope and medicine bag.

It's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic.

I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard.

Getting into my teen years, I was filled with so much shame and pain that I got really involved with drugs and alcohol. I was hanging out with the wrong people and getting involved in the wrong relationships and everything just sort of spun out of control.

My spiritual high naturally dissipated. At some point you've got to come out of the clouds and live real life. Again, it's just like falling in love. The feeling of euphoria is only temporary.

One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing.

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.