With I Wrote This for Attention out Oct. 14, here are some of the biggest moments Gage says he unpacks in his memoir.<\/p>\n
Gage talks about that viral audition video\u00a0<\/p>\n
In November 2020, Gage posted an audition that he did over Zoom<\/a>, in which the director \u2014 who wasn\u2019t visible in the video \u2014\u00a0mused about how \u201cthese poor people live in these tiny apartments.\u201d Gage joked back, \u201cI know, it\u2019s a shitty apartment. That\u2019s why, give me this job, so I can get a better one.\u201d The video quickly went viral.\u00a0<\/p>\n Gage wrote about sharing that moment on social media in his memoir. In an excerpt published in Variety<\/a>, he wrote that returning to the set of The White Lotus during the COVID-19 pandemic after posting the video made him feel self-conscious. \u201cThe familiar lights and sounds should\u2019ve felt like routine. But they didn\u2019t,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAll I could imagine was the discussion they\u2019d have after work about what a liability I was.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Gage decided to stop checking his phone, which was blowing up with messages. Apparently, that was a mistake, as someone from production was attempting to get in touch with him to tell him that he had COVID and had to self-quarantine. \u201cI\u2019d gone viral,\u201d he joked in the memoir. \u201cAgain.\u201d<\/p>\n The White Lotus creator Mike White reviewed Gage\u2019s book<\/a>, saying of the memoir in January, \u201cFor a self-proclaimed pathological liar, Lukas Gage is brutally honest. And for an exhibitionistic chaos agent with a borderline personality disorder, he is entirely relatable. This insightful memoir will earn your attention with its humor and its heartbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n Gage writes about his marriage to Chris Appleton\u00a0<\/p>\n In 2023, Gage married Appleton<\/a>, Kim Kardashian\u2019s hairdresser \u2014 Kardashian herself officiated the wedding. However, the couple \u2014\u00a0who got hitched in April 2023 after initially sparking dating rumors in February of the same year \u2014\u00a0ultimately parted ways after seven months of marriage. The memoir dives into Gage\u2019s mindset behind his marriage.\u00a0<\/p>\n Gage poses with Kim Kardashian and Chris Appleton. (Hulu)<\/p>\n On an episode of Amanda Hirsch\u2019s Not Skinny but Not Fat podcast<\/a> in September, Gage said that he was being medicated for borderline personality disorder, which influenced his mental health at the time of his relationship. \u201cThere was a part of me that was in love or felt like he was in love, and happy, and just going with the flow \u2014 or thought he was happy and going with the flow. But there was another part of me that, I didn\u2019t recognize myself, and everyone around me didn\u2019t recognize who I was,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Gage opens up about his personality disorder\u00a0<\/p>\n The Smile 2 actor\u2019s memoir explores how he was finally diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and what living with it has been like. In an interview with Them<\/a>, he said that for a long time he didn\u2019t have the \u201cwords\u201d for the condition, and spent \u201cmy whole teenage years of thinking it\u2019s depression, anxiety, bipolar, whatever.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSome parts of my personality disorder are a pain in my ass, but some parts I love and are really great, and I don\u2019t think that there\u2019s something inherently wrong with me,\u201d he said. \u201cI want there to be a conversation that\u2019s not stigmatized and it doesn\u2019t feel like this dirty little secret that you have to have.\u201d<\/p>\n Gage shares his past experiences with sexual abuse<\/p>\n The Overcompensating actor writes in his memoir about being a loud, attention-seeking kid \u2014 something that was encouraged when he went to a theater camp for the summer. However, the camp was also where he says he was molested by an older counselor \u2014 something he writes about in the memoir.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAs with a lot of people who experience being molested, I felt like there was a willingness on my part because my body just checked out,\u201d he told the Guardian<\/a>. \u201cI knew it was wrong. I knew that the situation should not be happening. But I just plowed through it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n He talks getting fired from \u2018Mad Men\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n One of the earliest acting jobs Gage booked was on Mad Men \u2014 a show he was thrilled to appear on. However, when he took off his shirt and the producers saw that he had a large tattoo, he was fired from the show \u2014\u00a0something Gage writes about in the book.\u00a0<\/p>\n Gage told Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos on their talk show that the experience led to a nice moment with Jon Hamm<\/a>, who starred on Mad Men. \u201cI was catering at the Emmys the next year, and he remembered me and gave me a hug,\u201d Gage said. \u201cAnd he said, \u2018Everyone has to get fired once in their career.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Gage](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/xkr-407-sg08c.jpg\"\/)
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