英国42岁女作家JK•罗琳凭借《哈里•波特》系列小说缔造了当代出版界的销售神话，同时也使她自己成了财富超越英国女王的超级富婆。然而罗琳日前接受英国爱丁堡大学的一本学生杂志采访时披露，在她没有成名前，她的生活曾经一度穷困潦倒，在极度抑郁绝望之下，她曾经考虑过自杀，但她在接受心理咨询后终于熬过了生命中最艰难的日子，并走向了今天的成功。

The British writer said she had suicidal thoughts in her mid-20s, when she was a single mother and struggling to establish a literary career.

"Mid-20s life circumstances were poor and I really plummeted," Rowling said, according to an interview posted online by student journalist Adeel Amini.

Rowling said in the interview, parts of which were published in Edinburgh University's Student magazine, that she sought help from doctors and spent nine months receiving cognitive behavioral therapy, according to Amini.

"We're talking suicidal thoughts here, we're not talking 'I'm a little bit miserable'," Rowling was quoted as saying.

Amini provided an audio file of his 29-minute conversation with Rowling.

Rowling has previously said she suffered depression before her Harry Potter series brought her international success. She has acknowledged that characters featured in the series called Dementors were inspired by her illness.

The author has said she sought medical help following her separation from first husband, Jorge Arantes, a Portuguese journalist.

Amini said in an e-mail that he had carried out the interview in Edinburgh last month.

Fortune magazine ranks Rowling, who wrote seven Harry Potter novels, as one of the richest women in Britain, with an estimated wealth of 504 million pounds ($1 billion).

(Agencies/China Daily)