SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The mayor of South Lake Tahoe has issued a surprising and detailed letter to her community, admitting she stole funds from a church and tried to end her life over the guilt she felt.

In the letter shared with KTVU on Monday, Mayor Tamara Wallace said that she was not "found out" about the embezzlement but that she was coming forward with the information on her own.

The confession

"This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I am publicly admitting that I took funds from the Presbyterian Church over an extended period," she wrote in the opening of her letter.

The mayor went on to say that her actions prompted a suicide attempt on Sept. 11, which was her birthday.

Wallace said the church showed her love and entrusted her as an administrator, and that

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