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I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.

There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.

Changing my name was traumatic for me.

If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

I still pinch myself that I had the career that I had.

I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

I never felt my career was going backwards.