Story highlights Moore won the Academy Award for his screenplay in 2015Moore recently published "The Last Days of Night"The Axe Files, featuring David Axelrod, is a podcast distributed by CNN and produced at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Chicago (CNN) On the biggest night of his life, on the world's biggest stage, screenwriter Graham Moore won the Academy Award and used the platform to tell a riveting story he was reluctant to share. In publicly recounting his adolescent battles with depression and a failed suicide attempt, Moore says he fulfilled a promise he had made to himself during that stormy period in his life. During the hour-long conversation with Axelrod, Moore, 34, conceded that as the Oscars approached, he wrestled with whether he would carry through on his pledge. He did so, he said, in hopes of inspiring other troubled young people.

Source: CNN September 06, 2016 09:56 UTC