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I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

I was in detention a lot.

I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.

While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a Secret Service agent were, and they interrogated me for about three or four hours.

The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.