Lukas Gage Craved Attention ‘More Than Anything in the World’ — So He Wrote a Memoir (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Lukas Gage and the cover of ‘I Wrote This For Attention’.Photo:Sebastián Faena; Simon & Schuster

Sebastián Faena; Simon & Schuster

Lukas Gageisn’t afraid to admit that he craves the spotlight — and now, he’s writing a book to prove it.PEOPLE can exclusively share the cover ofI Wrote This for Attention, a new memoir from theWhite LotusandEuphoriastar, 29, that hits shelves this fall from Simon & Schuster.The book was inspired, in part, during a particularly difficult week in Gage’s life, per the memoir’s synopsis. As his grandmother lay dying, Gage sat next to his father, who was largely absent throughout his childhood, scrolling through his phone.There, he found that people online were accusing him of being attention-seeking — to which the actor, who did everything from setting his room on fire to flirting withHooterswaitresses as a kid, agreed.

“Lukas was scared of attention and yet he craved it more than anything in the world,” the synopsis reads.

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In turn,I Wrote This For Attentiondetails Gage’s coming-of-age in San Diego in a “broken” family, his journey toward stardom and his experiences with sex, addiction and, of course, “his commitment to being the center of attention at all times.”

Mike White,The White Lotus’ Emmy-winning writer and director, says, “For a self-proclaimed pathological liar, Lukas Gage is brutally honest. And for an exhibitionistic chaos agent with a borderline personality disorder, he is entirely relatable. This insightful memoir will earn your attention with its humor and its heartbreak.”

Lukas Gage.Sebastián Faena

Sebastián Faena

Gage has also starred in shows likeYouandFargo, as well as the filmsRoad HouseandSmile 2. He co-writes and stars alongsideZachary Quintoand Simon Rex inDown Low.

In a 2023 PEOPLEdigital cover story, the actor spoke about navigating life in the public eye. “There are just some areas in my life that I don’t want to shout out to the world on anyone’s accord but my own," he said, at the time.

The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!“I think we’re all just trying to navigate where that line intersects with keeping some things private and some things public because you are a public figure,” he said. “It’s a double-edged sword, and it’s an interesting line that I’m still figuring out.“I Wrote This For Attentionwill be published on Oct. 14 and is now available for preorder, wherever books are sold.

source: people.com