Laverne Cox

Yeah, I don't know.

I have an impulse to want to apologize, but I'm not going to do that for my emotion right now.

The opportunity came along, and when it did, I thought that I...

that I had done enough therapy that I could get through it.

I thought that the memories that were buried would stay buried.

And I came up with this device of when I would disassociate as a kid when traumatic things would happen, I would pretend I was Darcelle from Solid Gold, the lead Solid Gold dancer.

There was a TV show in the 70s and 80s called Solid Gold.

They would count down the

I love how you say it.

I mean, there's so many people who are way younger than me who have no idea.

So I would go to these other places, and I thought that I could use that device in writing the book to sort of protect myself.

And then I found we started to use that device not as much as I wanted to, and then I found that memories I thought were buried

And came back.

And it was just, it was harrowing.

But I thought I could handle it.

And it just felt, it felt like the right time.

I don't know why.

I'm in a new place with my mother.

It just felt like the time to do it.

And...