Dave Letele

My older brother, he was 18, 19, he'd moved out.

Well, he actually didn't really live with us by the time we moved to Auckland.

He was off doing his filming thing and everything.

And then my older sister, you know, she kind of she was like 16, 17.

And then I was 13.

My little brother was 11.

And yeah, I mean, he kind of went through the through the intermediate system.

So by the time he got to high school, he'd kind of made a few friends at a younger age.

But I went straight into third form.

And yeah, she was pretty she was pretty intense.

Like, yeah, I was just getting threatened every day and people, you know.

wanted to bash me getting pushed up against walls and stuff and yeah and that was just because i i just didn't fit yeah

I hadn't been raised in the same way, bro.

Yeah.

You know, I hadn't been raised to, you know, I'd been raised in a small community with love and, you know, and everyone was there and, you know, and it's not to say that there wasn't, you know, childhood trauma going on, that shit didn't happen around me, but I knew there was always a safe place.

Yeah.

And that was the first time I felt that there wasn't one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And, like, mum was there, but it was the first time I felt like there was...

When she wasn't, because she was at work all day, you know?