Tamara Thompson

Like I didn't want to because of the way society was.

Yes.

And I'm very confident in who I am now.

And so, but that whole process is because I was dumped and I couldn't tell anyone because everyone saw that person as my best friend.

And they're like, why aren't you friends anymore?

So it was hiding my first love, my real relationship for about three years where it really hurt.

And I went, this is kind of crazy.

So the day after I was dumped, I went running and jogging and like hardcore jogging, like earbuds in, like I was in the best shape of my life back then.

I wasn't like fully paying attention, but this gentleman failed to stop at a stop sign.

knocked me out.

I was knocked out for 27 hours that year.

I spiral spiraled into gaining weight.

I started feeling like a fraud because I was a personal trainer.

Right.

And I was unhappy.

And then it went into this whole thing that I was like, I feel like a fraud.

I don't want to do this anymore.

And, um, all of a sudden I started drinking and the only place I felt okay was in the LGBT community.

So I started to go out to meet people who were my so-called friends.

which really weren't, they weren't really helping me.