The story “In the morning we were competing, in the evening I had 5 customers!” »He participated in 3 editions of Olympic Games, but led a double life, selling his body for a disturbing reason

A few years ago, the American public was shocked to discover the double life of Suzy Favor Hamilton, an athlete with impressive university records, participating in three editions of the Olympic Games. Behind the successful sporty image, Suzy was hiding a dark secret, eventually revealed by a journalist.

Suffering from severe depression, she gave up sports and her husband, becoming an escort in Las Vegas. “I would never have become a prostitute if it had not been the medicine that caused me an extremely powerful sexual desire. But I started to do it for money,” says Suzy.

The turning moment, the final at 1500 meters: “I intentionally collapsed”

The former athlete told how he struggled for a long time with anxiety and self-negligent, despite the fact that he was the medium-distancing runner with the most medals in the American university history. The crossroads were the final from 1500 meters from the Sydney Olympics, 2000, in which Gabriela Szabo andVioleta Beclea-Szekely.

I was out of the last curve, five girls were overcome, and my dream of winning an Olympic medal was shattering. Instead of finishing the race, I said, “Simply collapse!” And I fell, pretending to be injured. This was the moment when my descending spiral began. I didn't realize it then, but this was the first step towards the terrible events that would follow.
– Suzy Favor Hamilton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqatoef8t-s

“I felt better … much better”

Shortly after she was born, her husband, Mark Hamilton, began to notice that Suzi was “angry, irrational” and had, as he said, “an unhealthy relationship with their daughter, whom he did not want to leave her arms.”

After a doctor's visit, Suzy received medicines for depression. “I felt better immediately. But not just” better “, but” much better “. Incredibly good. Suddenly I started going out, I wanted to talk to everyone,” she remembered.

Proposed to her husband jumping with parachute and a menage of trois

Their relationship is already shabby, Suzi proposed to the husband a trip to Las Vegas for the marriage anniversary, in 2011.

In order to “spice up” things, he suggested to do two things: to jump with the parachute and have a menage of Trois. Her husband was shocked, but she accepted, which made Suzi “happier than ever.”

However, when returning to Wisconsin, the business with real estate went bad, and the experience in Vegas was missing. After a few months, he told her husband he would return there. Alone.

Arriving in the “city of sin”, Suzi appealed to an escort agency and “ordered” a man. “I remember saying,” You are the second man in my life. “He was surprised and replied,” Oh, what a pity! You should do this more often. “And I got in the trap. Instantly,” she added.

I don't want to lie. He endeavored to explain everything to me (as he did everything for adrenaline, as well as parachute jumps). I was on completely different roads at that time. She lived her life, me. He decided to do what he wanted and I didn't have much to say. I thought “at least don't deceive me in the back.”
– Mark Hamilton, the husband from which he broke up in 2021

“I thought – why not be paid?”

Even after returning to Wisconsin, her condition did not improve, as her husband said. He wanted again in Las Vegas, where, she said, “she felt excellent all the time.” At one point, he realized he could earn money from intimate relationships.

“I thought, why not be paid too? How can that guy? And would be fun. Obviously I need to be with someone in bed. I am simply hyperactive in that sense. And then everything has changed,” says the former star of athletics.

Charged their services by $ 600 per hour

She found an escort agency in Las Vegas and, because she was led by a friend of her husband, had to convince him “that Mark knew everything and agreed.” He took a new name, “Kelly Lundy”, and began to charge his services with $ 600 per hour.

She became immediately dependent on her new job. “He was completely out of control. I lost control after the first meeting. I wanted more! Kelly (the pseudonym he used), unlike me, had that charisma, that self -confidence, the power to attract men,” admits Suzi Hamilton.

At the same time, he appeared in public as “Suzi, the star of athletics”, keeping his double secret life, although he earned more than ever and adorned with necklaces with diamonds and expensive clothes.

“One day I ran a semi-marathon in the morning, in another state, then I jumped on the plane, I practically ran to him, to get to Las Vegas. That night I had five” meetings “.”

The secret revealed

However, her secret was revealed ten months after the “beginning of the new career”. “A journalist came to me and said,” Hi, I'm William Caston, I would like to ask you … “and I wanted to die in place, because I knew what it was. I knew him and I realized that my life was probably finished,” she remembered.

With her husband she reached a step of divorce. And after publishing the article about her dual life, she wanted to commit suicide.

We quarreled in the car and saw that while driving at high speed, she was trying to open the door. I suddenly brake. There were very, very dark moments, you couldn't imagine. She blamed everyone around her father to me. She was angry. Everyone else was to blame.
– Mark Hamilton

Final diagnosis

They went to the doctor, and then the diagnosis of bipolar disorder was confirmed.

The doctor told him something that changed his life: “When bipolar people are given antidepressants (as was the case with Suzi for years), this can lead to catastrophic results,” because the activities are increased, often unhealthy and uncontrolled. From here, the insatiable desire to have sex, crazy expenses, hyperactivity of all kinds.

From that meeting with the doctor, Suzi is still in the process of recovery. Everyone says she feels better, and this is obvious, she even wrote a book about her experience. But he admits that it was not easy. And it is not yet.

I still keep the clothes I wore and received when I was “Kelly Lungy”. I remember her and the crazy things she was doing. It never was ashamed of this, just because the disease overwhelmed it. And it takes a lot of effort to get out of it, just as it is long and the road until you don't feel ashamed.

Judging from her Instagram profile, Suzy leads a quiet family life today. Replaced the sport with the creation of mosaics.