Overview

• The memoir, I Wrote This for Attention, was released Oct. 14 by Simon & Schuster.
• In detailed first-person accounts, Gage says he was sexually abused at age 11 by a camp counselor and was taken at 13 to a troubled-teen wilderness program.
• He reports a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and links hyper-manic episodes to choices during his brief 2023 marriage to Chris Appleton, which ended months later.
• He writes that an ex misled him about genital symptoms before a doctor diagnosed gonorrhea and chlamydia, a claim he presents in the book.
• Gage says the 2023 actors' and writers' strikes gave him the time to write and pitch the project, which he describes as catharsis and narrative control.