The Girl Who Left: Cleared to Speak

Written By: Diana Saitseva
Narrated By: Jaclyn McMahon
Cleared to Speak — Audition Script Written and Narrated by Diana Zaitseva[INTRO – Calm, intimate tone] It wasn’t a scream. It wasn’t a breakdown. It was a moment — silent, sharp, and holy — when the microwave clock blinked 3:33 again, and I finally understood: I wasn’t crazy. I was being called. For seven months, I lived inside the quiet — bipolar disorder, liver failure, fear, recovery — a silence that both protected and suffocated me. But that night, staring at those three blinking numbers, something inside whispered, “You are cleared to speak.”[MID SECTION – steady, poetic, reflective tone]So I did. This isn’t just a story of survival. It’s a translation of silence into language, fear into faith, pain into poetry. Every chapter is a resurrection. Every scar, a sentence rewritten. Every whisper, a reminder that healing isn’t a finish line — it’s a homecoming.[ENDING – warm, resolute tone]My name is Diana, and this is the story of how I learned to speak again — not to the world, but to myself.