you clearly did not grow up as a cosby kid with claire and cliff huxtable as your parents. you grew up in south florida. tell us about your rocky start in life and what it was that put you on a course to get to where you are now. >> so as i said, this book is a combination between a memoir, science book and a policy book. i told the memoir portion because, not because i want you all to know more about my personal business. believe me, the great deal that i revealed in this book caused me a great deal of anxiety. i didn't tell it for that reason. i told the personal part because i know people learn by example. but i have to add science so you don't make the mistake, because you can make some real mistakes by anecdotes. i know people make mistakes, and i wanted the cast of kids who were coming up after me to see how, to provide a road map, if you would, how to do this. i wanted policymakers to see a road map, how you do this with people who were not cosbys. so the thing that kept me plugged in, into society even though i was engaged in petty crimes and that sort of thing, the