A riveting and heartwarming memoir by the actor of White Lotus and Euphoria that details his
upbringing in the west coast — including a broken family struggles with addiction sex
borderline personality disorder—and his commitment to being the center of attention at all
times even as he actually becomes a star. > In that room Lukas did the smartest thing
anyone can do in a crisis: doom scroll to see what random people on the internet were saying
about him. People were calling him an attention whore—and they were absolutely right. Lukas
Gage was no stranger to going viral. He loved attention. As a toddler he set his room on fire.
As a child he hugged and flirted with women at Hooters to his father’s delight. As a teen he
stole handles of alcohol and cherry cough syrup. He had sex at a restroom in Chili’s and fell
hopelessly in love with a girl who wore an ankle monitor. He became an actor and filmed that
scene in White Lotus (if you know you know). Lukas was scared of attention and yet he craved
it more than anything in the world. I Wrote This for Attention is a riveting exquisite
memoir full of heart that chronicles Lukas’s coming of age in the haunting underbelly of San
Diego and clawing his way to stardom. Lukas captures the universal anxieties of transitioning
from innocence to adulthood of feeling too much and nothing at all. Sex and death fame and
familial strife drug abuse and Raya I Wrote This for Attention is a remarkable achievement of
healing of vaping through therapy sessions and of having the courage to forgive the family
that hurt you and set yourself free.
