Overview

• Malala Yousafzai says she blacked out after smoking a bong at Oxford’s Lady Margaret Hall and then experienced vivid flashbacks of her 2012 Taliban shooting.
• She reports that the episode led to severe anxiety, panic attacks and disrupted sleep, which she later worked through with a therapist.
• The revelations come from interviews tied to her second memoir, Finding My Way, scheduled for publication on October 21 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
• She writes that Joe Biden, Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau did not respond to her 2021 pleas to help evacuate Afghan contacts, while Erna Solberg, Hillary Clinton and Lolwah al-Khater offered assistance.
• She acknowledges the cannabis disclosure may draw criticism in Pakistan and says she will not issue a defensive statement in response.