Mick Hunt

If there was something that can be competed, if there was a competition, we were doing it.

So I was one of the most driven kids that there was.

I wanted to be the best athlete on the team.

I wanted to be the smartest kid in school.

And so me growing up from the age of like three or four, I was trying to set the mark.

I was trying to set the standard.

That was me.

Alana, it was not an unusual circumstance in my home growing up to see my mother...

being physically, emotionally, financially, sometimes even sexually abused by my father, who she was married to, who lived in the same household.

But I also knew that I couldn't make that feel normal.

I knew it wasn't right.

And...

At the age of 10, Christmas Eve morning, which should be the second happiest day of the year, right?

My mom is sitting on my bed and she's wailing, right?

Not just crying, but wailing.

And I knew what that sound meant.

I knew what those tears meant.

And without saying a lot of words, I just asked my mom to leave.

I said, you don't have to deal with this.

You leave.