Baggage : tales from a fully packed life

Cumming, Alan, 1965-2021

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The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art. The release I felt in writing my first memoir, 'Not My Father's Son', was matched only by how my speaking out empowered so many to engage with their own trauma. But no one ever fully recovers from their past. You just learn to manage and prioritise it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something - an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person - you have merely decided to stop being vigilant and embraced denial as your modus operandi. Ironically maybe, much of 'Baggage' chronicles my life in Hollywood and how, since I recovered from a nervous breakdown at 28, work has repeatedly whisked me away from personal calamities to sets and stages around the world.