“For most people who saw her on TV or saw her at events, [Kryst] was smiling, and she was bubbly, and she was happy, and that was her true self,” Simpkins explained to “Extra.”

She continued, “But there was still a lot of pain that she felt, and I do feel like the book stands right between that place of what people saw in her smile and her private battle with depression.”

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