#436: Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood | Part 4
Real Crime Profile
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🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Trigger Warning: This episode contains descriptions of child sex abuse. Listener discretion is advised.
We finish our conversation with author and advocate Stephen Mills.
Stephen talks about the path of self destruction he took in his twenties as he tried to run away from the demons of his past. He tells us why after many decades he finally decided to write his memoir “Chosen”. We talk about how important it is to keep finding our voices as victims and speaking out as much as possible to lift the taboo and silence on abuse.
If you or someone you know is being abused please reach out to RAINN
https://www.rainn.org/about-national-sexual-assault-telephone-hotline
Or Darkness to Light
You can get Stephen’s book here:
https://stephenmillsauthor.com
Want to help fight Child Sex Abuse, Trafficking, and the statute of limitations, then please check out the Child USA, an organization Stephen is involved in
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:07.0 | This episode contains descriptions of child sexual abuse. Please exercise caution while listening. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clienty, retired at the I Pro File |
| 0:25.0 | of former New York City prosecutor and writer-producer of Criminal Minds. And with me today is... |
| 0:29.0 | And I am Lisa Zembede, a casting director for CBS's Criminal Minds and so honored to also be the casting director for Jim |
| 0:36.0 | Climenty's Audible Amazon Series Blue Beard. |
| 0:40.0 | And I'm Laura Richards, Criminal Behavioral Analyst, former New Scotland Yard, founder of Paladin, National |
| 0:45.0 | Stalking Advocacy Service and host of the podcast Crime Analyst. And I'm really pleased to say that we've been rejoined |
| 0:51.0 | by a fantastic guest who everyone should listen to and that's... |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Stephen Mills, the author of Chosen, a memoir of stolen boyhood. |
| 1:02.0 | And we're so glad that you came back, Stephen. |
| 1:05.0 | Thanks, I have a real... |
| 1:06.0 | We could do a very long series just taking apart so many aspects of what you were subjected to and how you've turned it into thriving. |
| 1:15.0 | And there are so many lessons for people, it's truly inspiring. And I know Lisa had some questions. |
| 1:22.0 | Well, I had a lot more questions as well, but I'm going to let Lisa start with her questions. |
| 1:28.0 | It was a part of your book, Stephen, that really chimed with me. And it's maybe not the part that maybe a lot of people would think about. |
| 1:33.0 | But it's the part in your 20s where you're really traveling the world. |
| 1:38.0 | You're really running from your demons, you know. And I think a lot of victims and survivors like me will be able to relate to this |
| 1:44.0 | because you're running away from something that you cannot name. |
| 1:48.0 | And you really kind of wander the floor corners of the earth. |
| 1:51.0 | And some people might think that, oh, you're searching for self-discovery. |
| 1:54.0 | But for me, I recognized it as a path of self-destruction, where you're trying every drug that you can get your hands on. |
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