Washington, December 15: For the past 15 years I have asked people to share with me and many others the most searing experiences of their lives.
First as a newspaper reporter, and now in television, I have persuaded and cajoled people to talk to me during the most difficult times. Tales of unimaginable grief, loss, illness, abuse and betrayal.
I have always had the greatest of respect for those who chose to speak out and for those who didn’t. Yet it’s only in the last few months that I have realised just how much courage it takes to tell such personal stories.
Many of those I’ve spoken to accepted their names and faces being made public. Their experiences were much worse than mine, their ordeals ongoing, their heartbreak without end. And yet now, as I try to tell a rather simple tale, I can’t bear the thought of my name or my husband’s being made public – and that perhaps says an awful lot about the story I would like to tell.
–Agencies