Rhea Seehorn

And my dad's favorite answer to everything was, what do you write in a book?

If you even just said, like, where are you going?

What do you write in a book?

And I thought I was so brilliant when I was 15 that I finally had a comeback.

And I said, I go, yeah, I am.

And he said, well, then leave this chapter out.

Um, apparently he was a heavy drinker for most of his adult life, but it just didn't get labeled as alcoholism, you know, and my dad was the life of the party and very, very smart, very, very funny with a super dry wit.

And growing up in a time where like having martinis, I don't know that they had them at lunch if you're working for the government, but it was pretty normal that that's what you do at the

I don't know.

I wish he was here so I could ask him.

It makes me so sad that it at least wasn't.

I don't know if it is now.

I feel like it's gotten better from what I hear.

But regularly offering and even normalizing people in the service to get therapy, it just wasn't a thing back then.

The idea that he was in the Tet Offensive, and as far as I know, never talked to anybody about it.

Yeah.

And that you would have a life built of a lot of secrets and, you know, even investigating sometimes your own department.

And I don't remember him ever saying that he had anybody to talk to about it.

So I just bring that up because I think self-medicating was going on for quite a while before it physically became a full-blown issue and then full-blown disease issue.

I wanted so badly to run away with the circus, and by that I mean television and film.