Jodi’s Covid conspi racy ‘THE STORY I NEEDED TO TELL’
Bestselling author Jodi Picoult has never had writer’s block and has been reading voraciously since the age of three. But when the pandemic struck, she found herself “all at sea”.
“I couldn’t read because I couldn’t focus on anything and I couldn’t write, which is pretty upsetting for someone who writes books for a living,” she tells the Weekly from her home in New Hampshire, USA.
“I have always used reading as a crutch and now I couldn’t even do that.”
The arrival of the pandemic in early 2020 signalled a huge lifestyle change for Jodi, 55, who has asthma. She was too scared to leave her house for 15 months.
“On a good day, I can’t breathe, so I thought if I catch Covid, I’m going to be one of those people who ends up ventilated and in hospital because my lungs aren’t strong enough,” she says.
“So I did not go to the grocery store,
