“My brain is 100 places at once.”
Michaela Coel, creator of the stunning series I May Destroy You that's currently rolling out on HBO, describes how her own sexual assault informed writing the show.
I go round and round in circles feeling comfort, and then feeling like I'm in a state of shock at the fact that I'm sharing this story. And then I laugh about it because it's absurd. I think it is absurd, because I've always felt ready to share, which I think might be partly because the nature of the assault meant that I wasn't quite aware that something had happened. So it meant that I was just saying, "Yo. There's this thing in my heads. What's that?" and telling everybody because it didn't make any sense. And so by the time it did make sense, I was already communicating about it which I think was a very good thing.
The full (short) interview: