Alana wyatt smith biography

Alana Wyatt-Smith’s self-published memoir, Breaking The Code Of Silence, tells an all-too-common story of a troubled young woman who grew up in a broken home with little in the way of education, job skills, or self-esteem, and learned at an early age that her power lay in her sexuality and ability to attract wealthy, powerful men.

Wyatt-Smith grew up in a maelstrom of uncertainty as the biracial daughter of a heroin-addicted stripper and an absent father. An eighth-grade dropout, she became a teenaged stripper who derived her identity and sense of self from her relationships with men.

The author consequently developed no inner life or interests beyond the intertwined pursuits of money and men.

She lost her virginity to a neighborhood drug dealer who morphs from the man of her dreams to an abusive nightmare over the course of several pages. This establishes a pattern: Wyatt-Smith falls madly in love with a man she’s convinced will be her eternal salvation and save her