"In the bathroom mirror, I contemplated myself disgustedly.
"Um... sure," I say, contemplating turning myself in and surrendering to the fake border patrol, except I'm unable to move.
"I was contemplating hanging myself," he said, recalling his thoughts as he lay in bed after his April 5, 2009, drunk driving arrest, his second in less than two years.
He told me, "I was so depressed that I contemplated blowing myself up.
I spiralled into bulimia again (I was anorexic and bulimic as a teenager), had a complete mental breakdown, and even contemplated suicide myself, ringing the Samaritans twice.
Unfolding on Andromache Chalfant's beat-up, abandoned-slaughterhouse set, the hourlong first act is an ordeal that made me contemplate impaling myself on one cast member's gore-smeared pitchfork.
"I thought, 'What right have I, with a loving partner, children and fantastic healthcare, to contemplate killing myself when this fantastic woman who has gone through so much is helping us?'" she says.
Tamsin Oglesby's play The War Next Door opened to mixed reviews in 2007; one critic said "the shoddy script and hammy acting left me so bored that I contemplated impaling myself on my biro".
"I thought, 'What right have I, with a loving partner, children and fantastic healthcare, to contemplate killing myself when this fantastic woman who has gone through so much is helping us?'" she says.
I make no claim of moral superiority for my generation of ex-ministers; I regarded lobbying as so degrading and uncongenial an occupation that I never even contemplated offering myself for sale at £5,000 a day.
