Jamie Lynn Sigler

And also 20 years old, you just, you don't know how to absorb that.

And the people around me, we were all so green to the business and being in the public eye, it just felt like the safest thing to do to keep it a secret.

And unfortunately that's just how I had to live until I finally felt ready to share.

But like you said, that took a long time.

It took a lot of painful moments, a lot of confronting moments, a lot of soul searching, a lot of therapy, a lot of hard conversations, a lot of embarrassing moments.

Moments that, again, I don't have any regrets about,

But if anything, I just hope that I can give fair warning to anyone else that might be in a similar position, whether in the public eye or not, of feeling afraid to share parts of yourself or fear of being judged or dismissed.

you are robbing yourself of opportunities of connection and service and love that you deserve.

The things that happen to us are not our fault.

And I think you have this opportunity.

I always say like pain is inevitable in life, struggle is inevitable, life is for learning.

This whole human experience is, we never know what's around the corner.

But the stories that we constantly will tell ourselves or the labels that we give ourselves because of those struggles, because of the pain is where real suffering is.

And I suffered for so long because of the stories that I told myself and I'm able to rewrite that.

And we are all able to rewrite those stories.

It's forgiveness for me.

It's first and foremost, forgiving yourself, forgiving that version of you that was just doing the best that she could and didn't know any better and was trying just to survive.

And then the forgiveness can extend to the other people.

You know, even the villains in our stories, right?

They were also doing the best that they could.