J.K. Rowling suffered depression and contemplated suicide
Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Hot Momma
Imagine the world today without the Harry Potter books and movies. They almost didn’t happen. J.K. Rowling recently said she contemplated killing herself after her first marriage to Jorge Arante ended. according to an interview posted online by student journalist Adeel Amini, Rowling said, “We’re talking suicidal thoughts here, we’re not talking ‘I’m a little bit miserable. Mid-twenties life circumstances were poor and I really plummeted,” Rowling said in the interview, parts of which were published in Edinburgh University’s Student magazine, that she sought help from doctors and spent nine months receiving cognitive behavioral therapy, according to Amini. Amini provided the Associated Press with an audio file of his 29-minute conversation with Rowling. She has acknowledged that characters featured in the series called Dementors were inspired by her illness.
After she left Jorge, friends helped her pay the security deposit on an apartment where she wrote Harry Potter. And the rest is history! Fortune magazine ranks Rowling, who wrote seven Harry Potter novels, as one of the richest women in Britain, with an estimated wealth of $1 billion.
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