Leona Macken

I'm close to my mum and dad and my brothers and my aunts and cousins.

Like,

just the most normal upbringing.

Like, I don't have any, like, sad story.

Like, I had a really nice childhood, like, and, you know, went through school, like, secondary school.

I went to St Vincent's.

And when I left school, I ended up working at Marks and Spencer's for a bit.

So I was there for a few years.

My mum is still there in Patrick Street.

And then after that, I went into hairdressing and kind of once I went into hairdressing, then that was it really.

I didn't really do anything else.

I worked in a salon in Cork for a bit until I did move to Dublin.

So I was only like 23, 24 kind of when I moved to Dublin.

And yeah, like I just I ended up meeting Alan in 2010.

I'm not going to say I stalked him, even though he will want me to say that.

He tells everyone, like, you totally changed me.

I probably did, actually.

But look, we were kind of texting.

We were like friends on Facebook.

And, you know, the usual on Facebook was the main thing at the time.