text:  maybe this is why I became an investigative reporter. Maybe that's what a shrink would say, but I, I, it was a backstory. I really didn't want to know until I was much older. I was kind of afraid of it, but yes, my, my parents were, uh, mentally ill and, uh, unable to care for me. So I spent my whole childhood as a ward of an agency. And, uh,