After a sting of horrific and public struggles, "60 Minutes"
correspondent Lara Logan left behind busy Washington D.C. for a quiet
life in a town nestled in Texas where she can focus on her family.
The TV journalist opened up
to People magazine and said she's cut back on her investigative work as
she settles to life outside Austin, in a tiny town where her husband
grew up.
The resilient journalist decided to relocate after her son, Joe, was
diagnosed with learning disabilities, including dyslexia and ADHD.
"I needed to be a mom, and I needed to be the kind of mom that I wanted
to be. I'm all in," she explained. "I really believe in being there for
my kids, and I really believe that I can help Joe learn how to read and
write."
The new home comes after a string of tumultuous years in her personal and professional life.
Five years ago, she was sexually assaulted at the hands a mob in
Cairo's Tahrir Square after being separated from her TV crew while
reporting on demonstrations in Egypt.
"I was in a panic," she recalled. “I knew what to do when I was on the
ground in Tahrir Square, I had to stand up. When I was on my way home, I
had to start rebuilding. When I saw my children, I had to live. Those
things were very clear."
The 45-year-old was hospitalized several times last year for complications stemming from the attack.
A year after the assault she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
“I didn’t know if I was going to live or die, and I didn’t know what do with that,” she said.
Even more difficulty plagued her the following year, when her Benghazi
report was found to be inaccurate, forcing her to take a seven-month
long leave of absence from the show.
“It was one thing after another. It was really hard,” she told the
magazine. "But if you can take that many knocks and stay on your feet,
you know that you can take just about anything."
“The road is very long,” she added. “There is just pieces of you left after that."
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