Before she was a best-selling author, Cheryl Strayed was quietly one of the most popular self-help writers on the internet, anonymously dispensing advice in her Dear Sugar column. Much like her moving memoir Wild, Cheryl shared stories from her own life, detailing the deep hole she fell into after the death of her mother in her early 20s and her subsequent heroin addiction.
That column, which she still writes to this day, has been adapted into new series. Thechatted with Cheryl about how she copes with strangers knowing the most painful parts of her life and why she loves New Zealand.