Why Kevin Smith Created a Public Persona to Cope with Childhood Trauma: I Called Him 'The Other Guy' (Exclusive)
ClerksdirectorKevin Smithis opening up about the coping mechanism he developed to deal with several childhood traumas — and how it eventually threatened to consume his life. “I called him ‘the other guy,'” Smith tells PEOPLE in a story in this week’s magazine, detailing the psychological crisis that forced him to seek help at Arizona’s Sierra Tucson treatment center for a month of intensive therapy. It all started one morning last January when Smith awoke and felt like he was losing his mind....