Director Lana Wachowski, whose films include Cloud Atlas and the Matrix trilogy and who came out as transgender earlier this year, told an audience in San Francisco last weekend that she nearly committed suicide as a young adult because of her identity struggles.
"In the absence of words to defend myself, without examples, without models, I began to believe voices in my head — that I was a freak, that I am broken, that there is something wrong with me, that I will never be lovable," Wachowski said at the Human Rights Campaign's gala dinner in San Francisco, where she accepted the LGBT organization's Visibility Award.
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Kid's StoryPaid | Amazon Instant Video
Length: 12:00
Aired: 9/26/2004
Sitting in his high school classroom, The Kid gets a personalized invitation from Neo to escape the Matrix. But finding the exit proves more difficult than the teen ever imagined. watch