It could have been driven towards drugs and alcohol, or gambling. I accelerated faster. But I was getting closer to home where my sweet baby girl was waiting. In an interview with Dr. Phil, she said, “I had a disease and I chose sex as a fuel to make me happy”.
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In an excerpt of her memoir published inSports Illustrated, Favor Hamilton recounts their night with Pearl.
She discussed with her husband about treatment of her bipolar disorder that went undiagnosed and had played a big role in her behavior, when she looked for excitement in her life.
She told People magazine, “My bipolar was driven toward sex”.
“Falling down at the Olympics is where my spiral down started”, she said in the People interview published Wednesday.
In short order, “Kelly Lundy” became one of Las Vegas’s top hookers, according to The Erotic Review, a web site that ranks escorts based on detailed customer reviews. It also led to headlines like “Ready, Set, Ho”, that in point of fact worked against her achievements as an athlete in the eyes of people.
But the rock-bottom moment forced her to seek help she said.
Hamilton’s book “Fast Girl” is due out September 14.
She had dedicated the race to brother Dan Favor, a manic-depressive who had committed suicide in 1999 after he stopped taking medication.
The 47-year-old mom reveals she was drawn to the oldest profession after giving her husband, Mark Hamilton, an unusual 20th wedding anniversary gift.
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She said they didn’t want to keep her in the dark and also didn’t want her overhearing something. When Hamilton’s prostitution was made public, many of her sponsors and awards were taken away from her. Today, Hamilton splits her time between Malibu, California and Madison, Wisconsin, where her husband Mark works as a real estate agent. “We’re doing 100 times better now”.
