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usmagazine.com - 3/24/2008

Harry Potter Author J.K. Rowling Had "Suicidal Thoughts"

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Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling says she was so depressed in the 1990s that she considered taking her own life. Rowling, now 42, was in her mid-20s when her "life circumstances were poor and I really plummeted." She was a single mother (she had just split from journalist Jorge Arantes) and a struggling writer. (Rowling – now worth an estimated $1 billion – said her friends had to help her pay the security deposit for her apartment.) She said she found counseling "absolutely invaluable.  ...

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