Maddie Alexander Grout

But if they were to come out, I'd be like,

Cool, you know, everyone's got a past.

You know, it's not the end of the world.

You know, even my children, I'm pretty honest with them about things that I've done in my past life.

You know, they still say to me, like, I can't believe you used to smoke, mummy.

God, that's so disgusting.

And you could have died and all these things.

And I'm like, yeah, but I was a teenager.

It's what you do.

But I think a lot of people will shy away from the press because they think it's going to be...

something that they're not comfortable with.

And I think if you get comfortable with being uncomfortable, you push yourself out of that zone because you're never going to grow if you keep doing the things that you've done.

Exactly.

So I, like when my mother-in-law was still alive, she got really upset about me talking about my spending addiction because in her mind, like addiction was shameful.

And I remember being in the sun and she was like, she was like, oh, I got told about this by somebody down in my local pub and I'm really disappointed and like...

It's like, hang on a minute.

It's like, hey, it's not your story.

I'm not trying to bring shame on the family.

And, you know, I have fallen out with a couple of people because of press.

And that can be quite hard.