Lukas Gage said he found "empathy" for his younger self while writing his new memoir - even if it stirred up difficult memories for him and his family. One moment in particular was triggering for his mother, when he detailed being molested by a camp counselor in his youth. "It killed me to hear her so hurt about some of the things that happened to us," Gage, 30, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of I Wrote This for Attention's book release on Tuesday, October 14, referring to the moment he had to tell his mom he was forced to perfrom sexual acts in front of a counselor.