Louise Thompson

weirdly, we both went to the same prep school and secondary school and reconnected in 2024 when my book came out.

Yeah, and she's quite a bit older than me, if I say that.

I don't want to be an insult.

She's in her 40s.

I'm 35.

So we weren't close, but we have that weird thing in common and it felt like something that was meant to happen, you know, that this was the serendipitous moment that we...

We were meant to connect, even though it was in awful circumstances.

And so we started working together.

And she obviously has the parliamentary background.

I have lived experience.

And I just really, really don't want what happened to me to continue to happen to many other women that are less fortunate and have less privilege and less resources and that don't end up healing and surviving.

Because...

There have been partners who have messaged me to say that they've lost their wives.

And that, I remember when I received my first message like that, it actually completely broke me.

So I always knew that there was something that I wanted to do to make lasting change.

And, you know, it is that cliche thing of...

turning something terrible into something good.

And I think as humans, we're always searching for meaning.

We're such problem solvers as it is.

I couldn't find any meaning behind what had happened to me because it was just awful and it could have been avoided.