Author: The JT LeRoy Story Page #8

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of our time.

But the thing about that

language of what it's saying

is the books aren't real.

That all that work...

...is a joke.

Director:
What made people

actually believe

that you were the writer?

Savannah Knoop:
I think people

believed I was the writer

because

I said I was the writer.

I mean,

that's what it boils down to,

belief is based

on this kind of contract

around what you say you do

and then you assume

that's what you do.

[ Tape player clicks ]

[ Tape player clicks ]

Laura Albert:
Asia called me

and it's her first time

talking to me.

[ Tape player clicks ]

[ Tape player clicks ]

What's being thrown out there

is multiple personality

disorder.

But that ain't it.

I am pulling the switch.

I am making the decision

to go to a different rail.

I don't know what the label is,

I don't know

what the classification is,

but I can tell you

one thing I know --

it is not a hoax.

[ Ringing ]

[ Receiver clicks ]

If you bought a book,

if you feel upset because I was

15 years older than JT,

or that I'm a woman

and not a boy,

I'm okay with that.

The book says clearly,

on the jacket, fiction.

The rest is extra.

[ Click, whir ]

My dad grew up in Bushwick

really poor,

and he had a very close friend

that would babysit.

He was Uncle George to me,

I knew him

from when I was a baby.

He was just always there,

and he was family.

My parents

didn't really go out a lot,

so for them to go out at night

was a big deal.

But when I was 3, my mom

arranged for theater tickets,

and they left me with George.

And we played a game.

It's a very complex,

psychological game

of being a good girl

versus being a bad girl.

And he starts to touch me

and my body responds to that,

but that is proof

that I'm a bad girl.

He had a solution,

and that was to spank me.

But he also touched me

at the same time.

That's where everything just...

my wires crossed.

'Cause then pain

and sexual excitement

became intertwined.

And I'm not innocent in this.

My body responded.

It really excited me,

and it was horrible,

and something

was very, very broken in me.

I went to food for relief

because he definitely

preferred me thin.

At some point,

George just disappeared.

But the damage was done.

A child is

a delicately spinning top,

and it doesn't take much

to send the top off its course.

[ Click ]

It must be nice to disappear

To have a vanishing act

To always be looking forward

And never looking back

How nice it is to disappear

Float into a mist

With a young lady

on your arm

Looking for a kiss

It must be nice to disappear

To have a vanishing act

To always be moving forward

And never looking back

How nice it is to disappear

Float into a mist

With a young lady

on your arm

Looking for a kiss

Looking for a kiss

Float into a mist

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