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It came out that he was a heroin addict.

He'd been in prison for heroin offences.

Yeah, so that all came out and we were like, what the fuck?

We were shocked because we didn't know people like that.

We'd never seen drugs before.

We didn't know anybody who ever used drugs.

That just wasn't in our world until this guy came on the scene.

eventually mum started using because he was.

My mum had a lot of money and I'm sure that was the main attraction for him, seeing dollar signs.

So there was always heroin in the house, usually just had an ounce of heroin sitting around.

At that stage, I was the one, like say if we got an ounce of heroin, I was the one that would go into a bedroom, tip it out, cut it,

put it in packages, all that type of thing.

So I was doing that on my own.

That became a good thing for me because when I did start using, I would take some out for myself.

Nobody knew I was a heroin addict for a long, long time.

You know, I would ask her very often when she was having a snore, I'd say, Mum, can I try it?

And she's like, no.

And she said no for a very long time.

And I asked again one night and she said, okay, yeah, try it.

And...