“I didn’t understand how privileged I was, I didn’t understand what it was like to be a woman in the world, I didn’t understand what it was like to be somebody who wasn’t exactly like me, and that just came out in stuff that I thought was funny, that’s actually extremely hurtful.”īut in revisiting his past, there was also a lot of personal pain that this time around he wanted to be honest about. It was also a second chance, he says, as he took responsibility and apologised for his mistakes in the first book. “I was trying desperately to just figure out where I fit in in the world, without really understanding that I had never been given an opportunity to choose the path that I would walk to find that place.” “I began to really understand that the person I was when I was turning 30 was in all kinds of pain had not yet reckoned with being a survivor of child abuse and exploitation. Wheaton tells Jesse Mulligan that while reflecting on his experiences written in his first book and how far he’d come, he was able to find compassion and empathy for himself.
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