Douglas Stuart
speaker
201 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 May
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But, you know, my mother's drinking was a difficult thing to manage.
I was sort of thrust into a caregiving role about the age of four when I realized that my mother wouldn't always be able to take care of me and I had to look after her.
And when you would find sort of...
I learned sometimes that the best thing to do was to dispose of it or to get rid of it.
But sometimes if you did that, it just caused more trouble.
And so you had to almost just let her get on with it.
And so it very much depended on where I could judge where she was emotionally and what would come from those actions.
But yeah, sort of addiction was a central part of my childhood.
Yeah.
And I mean, this is the point where I should say my mother was a wonderful woman and she was a wonderful mother.
She was incredibly kind, incredibly generous.
And I often say that addiction killed my mother, but I don't think as I age that that is true.
I think what killed my mother was, first of all, poverty.
And then the second thing was, is she was a woman who had made a very traditional bargain that said, you don't need an education if you leave school and you should marry the first man that you that you fall in love with and you should have children and you will build a life together.
She eventually married my father.
And when the sort of the country went into 25 percent unemployment under Margaret Thatcher and when my father left her.
You know, she found herself in a very desperate place.
And so it was that sort of, you know, that upbringing and then also the poverty that we found ourselves in that led to the addiction.
And that's really the thing that killed her.
That's right, yeah.
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