Lukas Gage Wrote a Memoir. He Knows It's "Premature."

""Full transparency, this book was premature and I'm well aware of it," Gage told Esquire at a recent roundtable alongside fellow editors from Cosmopolitan and Men's Health. After all, not many thirty-year-old celebrities take to memoir writing. Still, I Wrote This for Attention is an honest story from a young actor with a lot to get off his chest. From the sound of it, it was a cathartic experience laying his life out in the open."

"The biggest thing I hope people get out of it is someone who's being very, very honest and rawand maybe oversharing about taboo topics like mental health and sexuality. It's also a funny book and I think we need to laugh right now, and if we can also laugh at some of the darker stuff and have a little bit of humility about it, then hopefully other people can do the same in these scary times."

Lukas Gage published a memoir titled I Wrote This for Attention at age thirty. The memoir covers his tenuous relationship with his father, traumatic events at summer camp, a troubled teen wilderness program he was forced to attend, and his brief marriage to celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton. Gage leveraged momentum from buzz-worthy appearances in Euphoria and The White Lotus during the SAG-AFTRA strike to release the book. He describes the book as premature but aims for extreme honesty and oversharing about taboo topics like mental health and sexuality while also using humor. The release coincides with fall advocacy for PrEP.

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