. >> suzy favor hamilton.ngest stories -- >> this is unbelievable that my life has went from the all-american girl to the whore overnight like that. >> i saw a headline online. and i clicked on it. and i just could not believe what i was reading. >> reporter: in wisconsin -- her father's advice, leave the country and change her name. >> i honestly felt at that time we weren't going to be together much longer. >> reporter: that you were going to be divorced? >> we were going to be divorced. it was just a matter of time. >> reporter: as bad as things were the worst was still to come. >> there was so much hate mail pouring in. the first day mark got 600 e-mails. >> reporter: what were people saying? >> "your wife's a slut, your wife's a whore. you need to leave her." it said, "you need to kill yourself like your brother did." >> reporter: worried that suzy might do just that, mark calls the family doctor. >> she got help within the next few days, talked to a psychiatrist. >> reporter: finally, the question of how

running fueled suzy favor hamilton's rise to fame. >> suzy favor is the winner. >> reporter: amassingagazine covers, endorsements and one award after another. >> i had achieved something that nobody else had done at that time. i won nine ncaa titles. >> reporter: married to her college sweetheart mark suzy's storybook life seemed unstoppable until having her olympic dreams dashed in barcelona then again in atlanta and in sydney in the 2000 gapes. >> she just lost it. >> i felt the whole entire world was watching me. >> reporter: her shot at redemption and glory falling apart on live television. >> and that dream of having an olympic medal was gone and instead of finishing the race like most runners would i told myself just fall and i fell immediately. just happened like that. >> and suzy favor hamilton has fallen down. >> reporter: years later confessing what was an accidental fall was staged in a moment of panic. >> i pretended i was injured and i remember thinking, again, you're the worst person in the world. look at what you just did. >> reporter: suzy returns to wisconsin eventual

olympian suzy favor hamilton seemed to have it all. >> i won nine ncaa titles. >> reporter: until her again in atlanta. in 2000 in sydney, hamilton doing the unthinkable. >> suzy favor hamilton has fallen down! >> reporter: sabotaging her last chance at gold. >> when i got to the starting line, i just wanted to vanish. i told myself just fall. i fell immediately. it happened like that. >> reporter: married to her college sweetheart, mark. she started a real estate business and a family. the darkness loomed. eventually leading to a night in vegas with a call girl. >> i kind of felt like, why isn't everybody else doing this? >> reporter: then decided to become an escort herself. >> that lightbulb moment, why shouldn't i get paid for sex? >> reporter: her double life came crashing down when she was outed by the smoking gun. and suzy is joining us. welcome to "good morning america." >> thank you so much for having me here. >> of course. i want to get right to the smoking gun. so they out you. did you think you could have gone on with this? had you not gotten caught, would you have just co

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suzy favor hamilton was on "good day" this morning promoting her book fast girl, a life spent running from the madness. she chronicles her life and struggle with bipolar disorder and her stint as a $600 an hour call girl before being outed by a web site in 2012. >> the thing i live with for the rest of my life is the pain that i caused my husband, my family, my daughter. she'll grow up living with this, but she understands mental illness more than 99 percent of adults. she's so compassionate. dari: it's a rather compelling interview. thing, head to fox 5 ny.com and click on the "good day" section. steve: the continuing growth of craft breweries has the makers of budweiser and miller considering teaming up. dari: keri drew heads to a local brewery to find out about the growing demand. steve: never ending. and uber taking on city hall. how the ride sharing company is calling out city officials this take a look at these bbq trophies: best cracked pepper sauce... most ribs eaten while calf roping... yep, greatness deserves you got any trophies, cowboy? whoomp there it is uh, yeah... well,

that is suzy favor hamilton, an olympic runner. she was this the '92 olympics, the '9 6 olympics and the 2000 olympics in seoul, right? >> sydney. >> australia. incredible talent. now get this, folks. shortly after the sydney olympics, she became a prostitute? she succumbed to her addictions somehow. >> an escort. >> it was, actually, it took a little while for this whole thing to progress. >> let's put the book cover up, and suzy's going to take us through it. >> it's called "the fast girl: a life spent running from madness." it has her history of how she went from one of the most decorated runners to finding herself in, well, compromising positions. >> it was sydney olympics in 2000, i made myself fall on purpose. i was the one who was supposed so falling in the race was better than losing in my mind, and that was the spiral down in my life. so in 2012 is when i became an escort. >> so how did you get from one position to another position? time? >> i know. this is going to be so bizarre, and i know it's hard for people to put the