Raygun has made peace with the Paris Olympics — after a lot of therapy | CNN

Time heals all wounds, according to the Australian breakdancer Raygun, even ones inflicted by strangers online when you suddenly find yourself the subject of global mockery. Two years after going viral for her captivatingly non-fluid breakdancing routine at the Paris Olympics, Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, says she’s learned to make peace with the “surreal” experience she had at the Games — thanks, in part, to a lot of therapy. “Paris is now just a part of my story,” Gunn said in an interview. “For me, it’s more about radical acceptance of everything that’s happened and just one foot in front of the other, just trying to move ahead.” As the most famous — or infamous — breakdancer in the world, Gunn is the subject of a new Netflix documentary, “Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly,” that debuts on Netflix on September 1. The film chronicles how Gunn came to breakdancing, her rocky path to the Paris Games and the toll that going viral had on her. “I can’t just be a meme,” she tells viewers. Speaking from her home in Sydney ahead of the documentary’s release, Gunn said she’s proud of her routine despite things feeling like a “slow-motion car crash” at th

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