General Discussion

Laura is surprisingly vulnerable for someone who has made a career out of exploiting the vulnerabilities of others. She confesses that she reached the ‘darkest point’ of her life while living in New York in the early part of her career.
‘I had really bad anxiety and depression, and then I started to basically deal with the depression by doing cocaine. I was never a drug user before, but I was using cocaine to kind of deal with it.’ Laura was 23 years old. ‘There were phases when I wouldn’t sleep for three days straight, and one morning I woke up and drove myself to a cliff, and it was cold and kind of snowy outside. It was February. I tried to kill myself…like legitimately tried to kill myself.’