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So that would explain the weird times of the phones ringing.

But typically I didn't really have a normal childhood in that sense, you know.

With dad, dad was very strict.

So with him, it was always parent-kid relationship.

With mum, she was the total opposite of dad.

She was very soft.

She was very giving.

I guess, well, it was.

My mother's relationship and mine was more like best friends.

It wasn't a typical mother-daughter relationship.

As a teenager, I loved that.

And all my friends would say, fuck, your mum's so cool, you know, I wish my mum was like that.

And I did love it.

You know, I was living my best life and doing what I wanted and, you know, getting money whenever I asked for it to go out and

Yeah, I mean, looking back now as an adult, looking back on that, fuck, totally wrong.

Then when I was about 15, I think I was 14, 15, she met this guy, Simon.

And we all liked him.

We thought he was a really nice bloke, treated mum good.

Um...

But a few months into that relationship, his facade started to crack away and we were then seeing the real him.