Professor Katriona O'Sullivan

I was going to give you a Benson and Hedges to smoke.

So Mr. Pickering, he obviously could see, you know, took time to see past what I was presenting.

And he said, you're brilliant at English.

My God, Katrina, do you want to read for us?

I loved reading out loud and he'd ask my opinion.

And then he came to my house.

It was one parent teacher evening.

My dad and mom never went and he turned up at my house.

And I was like, oh shit, I'm in trouble.

And I opened the door and I listened to what he said to my dad.

I called my dad and he said to my dad, I just wanted the chance, Tony, to tell you that, Mr. O'Sullivan, to tell you that your daughter is really talented.

She's so good at English, I always cry.

She could go to college if you just did more for her.

Like, he apologised, my dad, because he wasn't a shameless character, Ray.

He was a normal addict who was ashamed.

And despite his intervention a year later, I was homeless.

I had the baby.

I didn't do good.

I didn't follow his path.

I had John.