Ore Oduba

He's a pop star.

There's kind of this accepted, thanks to a lot of work from people like yourself, accepted societal blanket that people who have been through drug and drink addiction

we kind of know what to do with it.

There's a little bit more of a societal acceptance.

Like, I mean, gosh, take this back decades and it wouldn't be the case.

But thankfully, because of a lot of that work, because it's been in the public sphere, there is a little bit more of a template for what people do.

It's incredibly hard to get out of it.

But I was like, the issue is...

Like, but this is what addiction looks like.

This is like me, like so many people are walking around in plain sight.

Absolutely.

In their life is on the floor.

They've already hit their rock bottom, but they don't think that they supposed to be stand up members of society have an image in my world, like a public profile.

Um, and, and, and addiction doesn't, that's not you.

I was on Good Morning Britain the other day and lovely, gorgeous Kate Garroway was saying, she was like, I've known you for such a long time and I just, I would never have thought that you would have been someone that would have got into addiction like this.

And I was like,

That's the reason why I had to say something.

Absolutely.

Because this is what addiction looks like.

And it occurs in plain sight.