Maddy

All right, so my name is Maddie, and basically, I wanted to come here to tell, like, there's a lot of trauma and a lot of things that have happened in my childhood.

My father went to prison when I was six, and then my brother just went to prison, too, like, I think back in March.

And my dad didn't get out until...

I was 16, but I didn't meet him until I was 19.

So part of all that is just because it's mainly like my life story.

And I feel like the trauma, all the effects of what it has, has really just made me who I am today.

And I think it's really important to be honest.

And it's just part of my story.

So I wanted to tell it.

So I think it's important to start like

So my mom and my dad, how they grew up, my dad, he was, his parents were in and out of divorce with like three different kids and they would,

it was horrible.

They didn't have money.

They would kidnap them like from each other and they'd be at school.

And then if the dad dropped them off, then his mom came and picked them up from school.

And then you got my mom on the other side who grew up, she was adopted when she was a baby and she had an older sister and it was more of a structured house.

So it's crazy to me, the nature and nurture of that type of thing with that.

But so she, when she was 15,

She met a guy in high school and she got pregnant with my older brother.

And then a year later, she got pregnant again with my older sister.