If you were in a position to tell Oprah the challenges of your journey, what would you include?
I feel like my tell-all would cover the destructive power of alcoholism over various members of my family and what that did to everyone else, how fights over money caused rifts between various family members, people moving abroad and exiling themselves to get away from one another and how this led to me not seeing some people for years and feeling cut off myself, dealings with the mafia and fear and secrecy around that, cultural misunderstandings, bags and bags of mental health problems from depression to narcissism to suicide attempts ... if I stretched right back I think I’d probably start with the role of the war in setting off some of these intergenerational issues.
Most of these things are entirely unknown to my friends. I always thought I’d write it all up in a book as fiction and maybe wait until a few people weren’t around to actually read it!
But what would go on your tell all?