READER'S ROCK LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE VOL 2 ISSUE 4 NOVEMBER 2014 Vol. 1 Issue 4 October 2013 | Page 8

Up Close and Personal with
Lori Foroozandeh
SURVIVOR - AUTHOR - ADVOCATE

When I first met Lori I was so
shocked by her story that I could
barely come to terms with the fact
that I was chatting online with a
woman that had endured so much
and I wanted to share with you a
little about her and her story. With
everything that is going on in our
world today we can attempt to
pretend that the headlines and tv
news stories are as much fiction
as the books we read. We feel safer if we isolate ourselves from
what is going on dangerously
close to us and our families.

nightmare. I have to admit
that I’ve come to admire
you so much because of
not what you endured,
while that breaks my
heart and it is
important to share,
but it’s how you
responded to what
happened to you.
Can you share
with us a little
of your story
just so our
readers
will
Lori’s story is one that will impact understand
you, how I’m not sure. Some get what you went
angry, some express disbelief and through? Please don’t
others are just broken hearted.
share too much because I want
everyone to want to read your
Lori, thank you so much for your book.
willingness to share not only by
agreeing to this interview, but by It is my true story of being held
reliving the pain through each and captive in Iran during 911. I
every page of your book so that
became married to a terrorist
others would know what can
(that I didn’t know was one) and
happen.
he encouraged me to move to
Iran, and from there on out things
Lori most of the interview’s I do went severely out of control. It
are anchored more in dreams.
also led me to a new
Fiction authors often express that understanding of our government,
writing for them is the fulfillment and what our right to free speech
of a dream, but for you writing I
really entails.
imagine is more the purging of a

The book also deals with my
childhood sexual
abuse, domestic
violence,
my
lifel
ong
strug
gle
with
substance
abuse and
living with
bipolar
disorder.
Lori when did
you first consider
writing a book to
share your
experience with
others?
I started getting ‘URGED” to
write a book back when I started
dealing with my PTSD therapist.
She and everyone I encountered
at Henry Ford Hospital (in
Detroit) would hear my story and
tell me YOU HAVE TO WRITE A
BOOK! Finally in 2008, I took
their words to heart and started
writing. And once I started
writing I couldn’t stop, I had so
many memories just to get out of