Matt Willis

They were very strong.

My mum in particular was incredibly strong.

She was, you know, broken by it, incredibly sad, and so was the whole family.

Nobody has been the same, you know, exactly the same since.

But they never showed, you know...

a lot of they shielded me from how they really felt in order to let me live my life as a 10 year old.

You know, like I was never dragged into the

you know, very pure sadness of it all.

You know, it was kind of, you know, go and play and see your friends.

And it wasn't so much, you know, I think you would exclude a 10-year-old from the turmoil of that situation.

So I remember them dealing with it quite well for me.

I didn't process it until quite a lot later.

So I only had therapy for it.

in my adult life, like years and years later.

And we went to Everest to try and find his body and we made that film, Finding Michael.

And I learned an awful lot about the mountain on the mountain and kind of just was able to let go of some of the pain when I was up there.

But I had a fair amount of therapy around...

his death and not really processing it as a kid.

I think death is quite an unusual thing to contend with as a child.

You know, I'm not sure.