David Morrissey

Yeah, it was.

I just knew I wanted to get out.

I had to be on my own.

Part of the thing for me...

with my dad's illness and all that stuff, was that I was left in no doubt that it was up to me.

Whatever was going to happen, it wasn't going to happen for my parents or anything like that.

I had to make it work.

And I knew that academically I was never going to be able to go to university or anything like that.

That was never going to happen to me.

So I had to make it happen somewhere else.

It was hard for my mum, but I knew I had to cut the strings and find independence.

You know, they say that that hyper-independence is a trauma response.

I do tend to cut off sometimes.

And, you know, I am a recovering alcoholic.

I was someone who has been sober now for 21 years.

And that was all part of that, being in trauma and not knowing how to stop, being sort of in a depressive state and sort of just, you know, needing to be on my own.

Drinking first was about anxiety.

It was about I've had this terrible social anxiety and that helped me get through it.

Yeah, it really does.

And Liverpool is a party city.