I Was A Full Foot Taller Than

I Think It Became Blurry Because I Grew Up In A Very Private Family. I Mixed Privacy And Secrecy Up Somewhere Along The Line. Everything Became A Secret, And I Thought That Was How You Should Live. Lying About Everything. The Mask I Put On As A Kid To Survive Was The Funny Lady. Then The Funny Person All Of A Sudden Became Harder To Do Without Substances. Substances Let Me Keep The Mask On Longer. Until It Doesn't Work Anymore And You're Just A Mess.

It's A Very Lonely Place, Being An Addict.

I Am, Uh ... A 6 Foot Tall Woman, I Feel Like I'm A Healthy Size, I'm Not Anorexic; And I Feel That People Who Aren't Anorexic Are Punished ... For Not Being Anorexic.

I Was A Full Foot Taller Than Any Child My Age.

Onstage, I Was Never The Ingenue.