Shawn Johnson East

Came back to high school.

I was too much of a distraction.

I had to leave the high school, which was very odd because now you have all these kids who were my friends now thinking I was such a big deal, which didn't make sense to me.

I couldn't finish high school.

I had to go tutor in kind of isolation.

Then I got sent on this whirlwind of just the aftermath of the Olympics of TV shows and Dancing with the Stars.

And then college got further and further and further away.

And it just it snowballed into something that I had never envisioned.

And I felt very out of control.

I'm a very type A person.

And I felt very out of control of my own life.

And I didn't know where it was going.

And not knowing where it was going really stressed me out.

So, yeah, I struggled for a while.

About two years.

And then I went back to gymnastics because I didn't know what else to do.

The last time I felt like I was happy, in control, and had respect from people, in my mind, this is what made sense, was in gymnastics.

So I went back thinking it would fix my problems.

Went back into gymnastics for two years.

Got kind of like my sanity back to a certain extent.