When the individual’s right to free speech becomes a wrong for society
He has now chosen to redefine himself in his autobiography, by confessing to an eating disorder. For years, he reveals, any stressful political situation would cause him to stuff himself with food and then throw it up. He was not, he ruefully remarks, a particularly successful bulimic: he never managed to get thin.
His revelations were followed by an interesting set of responses. First was the Me Too reaction, with male celebs in middle age or older announcing that they too had spent years vomiting up gorged food and suffering the consequent guilt, shame and loss of self-esteem. One of those celebs was Uri Geller, whose mental capacity to bend spoons fell short of helping him control his intake at mealtime.
