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But for me, speaking up about this was worth putting my career on the line for.

Did you feel like this could be a mistake?

Oh God, this could have been the end.

We had to have those conversations as a team.

about this potentially being the end of my career as it as it stood um but you know what the more i spoke about it with friends the more i spoke about it with employers the more i spoke about it with charities and people doing the work on the ground with young people like it was so obvious to me the message was abundantly clear

And I thought, if anybody doesn't get on the side of this, I mean, pray for them because this is something that affects absolutely everybody.

Everybody connected to a device, but especially young people coming through.

And I recognized at a time that I was kind of prepared to speak to my children about something that I had gone through.

But when I came to understanding and there was a

number of things that happened last year from the online safety bill passing and vpn rate spiking to the children's commission publishing a report saying that kids as young as six are being exposed to pornography and then it was yesterday's fish and paper the next day i thought i don't think people are taking this issue seriously enough yeah and that adult material is filling the void

that our lack of communication is creating around what good, healthy sex looks like.

And instead, fueling a lot of the negative, horrific things and issues that we're seeing in society, sexual crime, massive division between genders, volatility online, hatred and vitriol.

and so much of it fueled by sex and pornography and I thought I think it's all connected and I think if I can add a voice to it or if I can create a changing conversation around it then everybody who is invested in it from families to schools to like places of power and change

then it might start to move the needle even just a little bit.

And the reaction, the response immediately was seismic.

It was mind blowing.

And I never thought I would be here today

feeling able to talk about this as, as the nine year old that I, that I was.

Um, but from that point, I didn't think that I would be here still talking about it and people wanting to listen.

I think that was the thing that has really surprised me.