Kerry Washington Opens Up About Suicidal Thoughts Amid Eating Disorder: ‘A Toxic Cycle Of Self-Abuse’
etcanada.comKerry Washington is getting candid. The fiercely private “Scandal” star is about to release her new memoir, Thicker Than Water, and in it she opens up about her struggles with an eating disorder.
In an excerpt from the book, aired during an interview with Robin Roberts on “Good Morning America”, Washington recalls that by the time she went to college, her relationship to food and her body had “become a toxic cycle of self-abuse that utilized the tools of starvation, binge eating, body obsession and compulsive exercise.” READ MORE: Kerry Washington Reveals She’s ‘Always Quitting’ Hollywood: ‘I Have Spent A Lifetime Trying To Not Be An Actor’ “I could feel how the abuse was a way to really hurt myself, as if I didn’t want to be here.
It scared me that I could not want to be here because I was in so much pain,” the actress tells Roberts. Asked if she ever contemplated suicide, Washington says, “Yeah.
Yeah … The behaviour was tiny little acts of trying to destroy myself.” The 46-year-old actress recalls, “I was good at performing ‘perfect.’ I was good at control.
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