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In it, Hay stated that she was born in Los Angeles to a poor mother who remarried Louise's violent stepfather, Ernest Carl Wanzenreid — , who physically abused her and her mother. When she was about five, she was raped by a neighbor. At 15, she dropped out of University High School in Los Angeles without a diploma, became pregnant and, on her 16th birthday, gave up her newborn baby girl for adoption.

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She then moved to Chicago, where she worked in low-paying jobs. In , she moved on again, to New York. At this point she changed her first name, and began a career as a fashion model. In , she married the English businessman Andrew Hay — ; after 14 years of marriage, she felt devastated when he left her for another woman, Sharman Douglas — Hay said that about this time she found the First Church of Religious Science on 48th Street, which taught her the transformative power of thought.

Hay studied the New Thought works of "positive thinking" authors. One was Florence Scovel Shinn who believed that positive thinking could change people's material circumstances, and the other, Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes who taught that positive thinking could heal the body. In the early s Hay became a Religious Science practitioner. In this role she led people in spoken affirmations , which she believed would cure their illnesses, and became popular as a workshop leader.

Hay described how in or she was diagnosed with "incurable" cervical cancer , and how she came to the conclusion that by holding on to her resentment for her childhood abuse and rape she had contributed to its onset. She reported how she had refused conventional medical treatment, and began a regimen of forgiveness, coupled with therapy, nutrition, reflexology , and occasional colonic enemas.

She said in the interview that she rid herself of the cancer by this method, but, while swearing to its truth, admitted that she had outlived every doctor who could confirm her story.