‘I Am Nobody,’ a story of sex abuse survival and the ‘murder of a child’s soul’
OTTAWA — Greg Gilhooly vividly remembers the night he decided to kill himself.
He clambered up on a bridge in the bedroom community of Oakville, Ont., one summer night in 2008 and contemplated the plunge that would set him free of unending torment from the sexual abuse he suffered as an adolescent.
In a sudden moment of clarity, Gilhooly decided he wanted to live, to start afresh after completely losing track of who he was.
The stark recollection in “I Am Nobody,” Gilhooly’s newly published memoir, is the latest step in a gradual process of telling his harrowing — but ultimately hopeful — story of being molested as a young hockey player by notorious former coach Graham James, and what came after.