Warning: this post includes points out of suicide.
Kerry Washington is opening up about a destructive time in her life.
The Scandal alum assesses her previous battles with an eating condition in college in her approaching narrative Thicker Than Water, discussing how compulsive workout and binge consuming eventually consumed her daily life.
“I was good at control. I could party all night and drink and smoke and have sex and still show up and have good grades. I knew how to manage. I was so high functioning,” Washington informed Good Morning America‘s Robin Roberts in an interview airingSept 24 on ABC. “And the food took me out. Like, the body dysmorphia, the body hatred, it was beyond my control and really led me to feeling like I need help from somebody and something bigger than me or I am in trouble, because I don’t know how to live with this.”
The 46- year-old continued, “I could feel how the abuse was a way to really hurt myself, as if I didn’t want to be here. Like, it scared me, that I could want to not be here because I was in so much pain.”
