Overview
- On the Feb. 4 episode, Cameron recounts learning at age 9 that her best friend Hayley was killed by her father and says the event "fissured" how she processes life.
- She describes overhearing a call from Hayley’s preschool principal while home sick in third grade that told her parents Hayley and her sister Kelsey were gone.
- Cameron recalls sensing a "dark energy" around Hayley’s father the prior summer and says her parents put her in therapy after the killings.
- She links the childhood trauma to later panic attacks during her early Disney career and to past relationships she characterizes as "trauma bonds."
- In the same interview, she says multiple devastating phone calls, including the one about her father’s death, left her with "major phone anxiety."