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The rising Democratic star resigned after an affair was made public and nude photos were published online. With a new book and podcast, she’s ‘not standing down’ any more
“I stared at the veins in my wrists,” writes the former California congresswoman Katie Hill. “They were so thin. They were green in the candlelight. I started tracing them with the edge of the knife, lightly at first, then pushing harder and harder … Fine red lines started to appear and I knew that if I pushed just a tiny bit harder I would start to bleed.”
This was the moment when the rising Democratic star and protege of the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, contemplated suicide. Two days earlier, Hill had announced her resignation after an affair with a member of her campaign staff was made public and nude photos of her were published online. Continue reading...