In her new book, former First Lady Laura Bush finally opens up about the 1963 fatal car crash she was involved in. She ran a stop sign, slammed into another car, and the driver -- a fellow high school student -- died.
The New York Times obtained a copy of "Spoken from the Heart," which is due for release in early May, and published excerpts. Among them: an admission that she was wracked by guilt for years, in part because she did not attend the funeral or reach out to the dead teen's parents.
"I lost my faith that November, lost it for many, many years," she writes, according to the Times. "It was the first time that I had prayed to God for something, begged him for something, not the simple childhood wishing on a star but humbly begging for another human life. And it was as if no one heard."
Much of the book deals with her White House years, and her disgust with the name-calling and insults that have become a staple of political battles. She defends her husband, George W. Bush, and blasts critics such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.