The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
My birth was managed so rottenly that my mother had eventually to have a hysterectomy, after which she was ill off & on till she dies for obscure reasons when I was just 7.
There's so many parts of my life that I've struggled with - that so many millions of others struggled with - about being an outsider, about feeling ugly, about having to overcome looking different to other people.
My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult.
I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.
I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
I have healed myself through sharing my birth story as well as others' stories in my film 'No Woman, No Cry,' and in various writings and talks about maternal health.
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.