Peter Goers

You know, I just stopped.

You know, I'd reached a crisis point with it and only two of my friends, of all of my friends, only two of them had the courage to say, stop this, Peter, this is a big problem for you.

And I resented them at the time but looking back, you know, I'm very grateful to those people.

because a lot of one's other friends are not honest about this because alcohol loves company, so they were enjoying drinking with me.

And I was very lucky that I just stopped drinking and never missed it.

They did.

And the extraordinary thing when I was writing this book, neither my sister nor I nor the lawyer, Adelaide lawyer, can remember what the fee was.

It was... We just can't remember.

It was blood money.

And it kind of soon went... It went... We ended up with, I think, a couple of houses...

Which soon went in one way or another.

It was blood money.

And you feel guilty about that money too.

That's part of the guilt, I think.

And it doesn't mean anything.

Was it more trouble than what it was worth?

In a way, yes.

In a way, yes.

It didn't... I don't know that it's created much opportunity...

You know, all you want is them.