Suzy Favor Hamilton has spent most of her life running, not just as a former U. Olympian, but from facing her mental illness. For the first time, the three-time Olympic athlete and decorated middle-distance runner is revealing what fueled her double life as a celebrated track hero by day and a high-priced Vegas escort by night, and how she is trying to move forward with her life now.
I keep trying to emphasize that wasn't me. I won't let it happen to me. I refuse. I refuse to let the act ruin me. So when I say that it was the bipolar's fault I'm not pinning it on bipolar and looking at that as the excuse. Favor Hamilton said she had long struggled with anxiety and self-doubt, despite being the most decorated runner in college history when she was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin. I didn't know at the time, but that was Step One of terrible things to happen.
Then Favor Hamilton became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, Kylie, now 10 years old. After she saw a doctor, Suzy Favor Hamilton says she was put on anti-depressant medication. Really good.
I'm talking amazingly good. I suddenly was so outgoing and just wanted to talk to everybody. With their marriage on the rocks, Favor Hamilton suggested she and Mark take a trip to Las Vegas for their wedding anniversary in Wanting to spice things up, Favor Hamilton convinced him to go skydiving and participate in a threesome.
But after they returned home to Wisconsin, Favor Hamilton said she despised her job in real estate and said she craved the excitement of Vegas. Within months, she told her husband she needed to return to Vegas alone. She's kind of living her life. I'm living mine. She's going to do what she's going to do, to an extent. I don't think I had a heck of a lot of say, but at least she's not cheating on me.
