Olympic Runner Became Las Vegas Call Girl, Blames The Devil (Mental Illness)

What a difference from Louis Zamperini.

[From interview]
NEW YORK – Suzy Favor Hamilton is a small town Wisconsin girl who became a three-time Olympian in women’s middle distance running. Then, something bizarre happened – the married mother became a high-priced Las Vegas escort. Suzy chronicles her life and struggle with bipolar disorder in her new book, “Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness.”
FOX411: You say our big change came after you and your husband celebrated your 20th wedding anniversary by hiring a hooker for a ménage a trois, and after that, you wanted to chase the high.
Suzy Favor Hamilton: After hiring the sex worker and that whole experience, something changed in me, I don’t know what it was at that time, but I kept telling my husband, “Don’t you feel this high?” He kind of laughed, “I don’t get it. It was great but I don’t know what you’re talking about.” But I was having this euphoric high. I didn’t know I was bipolar at the time. Looking back now I see what that high was.
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two months before that threesome and jumping out of an airplane that same day I was misdiagnosed for depression and they gave me an antidepressant called Zoloft, and one of the side effects that it can bring on is hyper-sexuality, not in all cases but when you’re bipolar and you take Zoloft now you’re kind of getting this double whammy, so I was hypersexual at that time, and the threesome was so easy and the high I was feeling was also contributed to the drug, not blaming the drug for then what progressed in the six months, from the threesome to the six months becoming an escort in Vegas.
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The entire time. Zoloft made me feel incredible. I was on top of the world. I was elated. I had no inhibitions. I started to become delusional during that time.
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Picking up men in Vegas, the gigolo that was part of the progression and at that time we were having marital problems and I was working for him which was a complete mistake, I should have never worked for my husband, and at that time when I was picking up random men in Vegas, we had discussed let’s have an open relationship, let’s try this out but yet it was more on my end, he wasn’t involved in any other relationship so that was the permission to go forward. But when I told him about the escorting and that I wanted to take this high to the next level. I told him it’s just going to be once or twice. I’m just going to sample it but when I jumped into that world, I was hooked immediately.
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It’s so unfortunate in our society that people have to judge. I am an advocate now for the misunderstood because of the route I decided to go. Zoloft definitely played a big role in it.
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I don’t feel shame because I don’t want to feel shame from having mental illness and I don’t shame the other women in that industry if this is the choice they want to do with their body, they have every right to make that decision. So, I’m not shaming them at all and I have friends in that industry to this day, and they’re good people.
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The bipolar was ruining my life, but more than anything it was ruining my relationship with my husband and hurting the people around me. It’s not a healthy place for me.
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[Pfizer statement]
Zoloft is not approved for use in treating bipolar depression and the product’s label states that prior to initiating treatment with an antidepressant, patients with depressive symptoms should be adequately screened to determine if they are at risk for bipolar disorder.

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Olympian turned escort Suzy Favor Hamilton says mental disorder behind 'hypersexual' stint
By Diana Falzone

Published September 17, 2015

FoxNews.com

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Suzy Favor Hamilton's Secret Struggles Despite Success on Track; 

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Suzy Favor Hamilton Shocked by Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis

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[From article]
Sex as a $600-an-hour escort is even better than winning a race, raves ex-Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton.
“This is better than competing in the Olympics,” the track star-turned-Vegas hookergushes in “Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness.”
Hamilton had been exposed as a high-priced call girl back in 2012, and had immediately sworn off the lifestyle in a rambling online apology that blamed chronic depression but revealed nothing salacious.
In her new book, though, she revels in her former hidden life, and dishes in detail.
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“I’d taken him to the bed, showing him that I was the one in charge,” she says of her kinky corporate takeover.
“He’d liked it,” she says of the merger.
The 47-year-old mom reveals she was drawn to the world’s oldest profession after giving her husband, Mark Hamilton, an unusual 20th wedding anniversary gift.
They went to Vegas, and hired an escort — a hooker named “Pearl” who pleasured both of them.
“Pearl had flipped a switch inside me, awakening a certainty that I could please clients even more than she’d pleased me,” she writes.
Bizarrely, her husband knew of, and grudgingly allowed, her new job as “Kelly” the call girl.

http://nypost.com/2015/09/09/vegas-hooker-inspired-former-olympian-to-turn-tricks/

Vegas hooker inspired former Olympian to turn tricks
By Laura Italiano
New York Post
September 9, 2015 | 8:55pm