John Hinckley Jr., the person who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, is selling a brand new memoir, and he’s doing it with a declare that has folks shocked. Hinckley stated he believes his failed assassination try not solely altered the course of American historical past, but additionally had a deeply private and lasting affect on actress Jodie Foster. In accordance with Hinckley, he has a idea that the 1981 taking pictures “traumatized” Foster to the purpose that she turned away from males and have become sexually drawn to ladies.

In accordance with TMZ, Hinckley additionally believes the trauma wasn’t simply from the taking pictures itself, however from what he describes as his public fascination with Foster, one thing he thinks pulled her into the story in a means that impacted her private life for years to come back.

In his account to the outlet, Hinckley claimed Foster was courting males within the early Eighties and solely turned a lesbian within the years following the try on Reagan’s life. Foster later publicly spoke about being homosexual throughout the 2013 Golden Globes Awards, and Hinckley reportedly stated that is the primary time he’s ever shared this idea publicly.

He’s now placing it on the market whereas selling his new guide, “John Hinckley Jr.: Who I Actually Am.”

Hinckley has lengthy been linked to Foster on account of his fixation on her after seeing her within the 1976 movie “Taxi Driver.” He informed TMZ that his obsession started within the late Nineteen Seventies and intensified when Foster attended Yale College.

In accordance with Hinckley, he went so far as visiting Yale’s registrar’s workplace to acquire her dorm quantity and cellphone quantity. He claimed he would name her and slip poems underneath her door, however by no means requested her out, saying she didn’t seem .

In his telling, that rejection spiraled into one thing darker. Hinckley stated that in his melancholy, delusion, and obsession, he believed he “may impress Jodie by killing the president.”

Hinckley additionally described being consumed by “Taxi Driver” and stated he recognized with Travis Bickle, the movie’s troubled predominant character. Within the film, Bickle considers taking pictures a presidential candidate after being rejected by a love curiosity, however doesn’t comply with via. As an alternative, the character finally ends up being praised as a hero for killing the lads exploiting Foster’s character, Iris.

Hinckley informed TMZ he tried to duplicate that concept in actual life, believing that taking pictures Reagan may in some way “win over” Foster. Relating to his present psychological well being therapy, Hinckley admits he has been on antidepressants for a few years and he’s at present voluntarily taking Zoloft and Risperdal for nervousness.

Hinckley stated he traveled from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. in March 1981 with the purpose of assassinating Reagan. He claimed he bought two .38 caliber weapons to pay for his bus ticket and lodging, after which went to the Hilton Resort the place Reagan was scheduled to talk, armed with a .22 caliber revolver.

Hinckley informed the outlet he was within the crowd outdoors when Reagan arrived and believed the president was waving immediately at him, which startled him earlier than he waved again.

He stated he waited till Reagan left after the speech, then pulled the revolver and fired six photographs inside seconds. The bullets wounded Reagan, police officer Thomas Delahanty, Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, and White Home Press Secretary James Brady.