Chantal Westerman interviews Gloria Vanderbilt, author of A Mother's Story. The object of an infamous custody battle when she was only 10, Gloria has suffered many personal losses in her life, culminating in the suicide of her son before her eyes – the event which led her to write this book. She has dealt with this sense of loss all her life, and here she discusses the ways she perseveres through the pain and losses that, she feels, life almost continuously gives to us.