Richard Gadd

I've got a screening tonight for Halfman and they're down to see it.

Yeah, I'm very blessed to have their support in my life.

Yeah, yeah, yes.

And yeah, they knew about that.

Yeah, We Are Survivors, they're amazing.

I mean, I came across We Are Survivors very, very early on in...

I was kind of like a kind of bumbling comedian when I sort of came across them, and they sort of reached out.

I'd done Monkey See Monkey Do, I think, actually, which was the Edinburgh show I did back in 2016, where I first started to sort of merge comedy with abuse, which kind of sounds a bit odd, but it's not like I was making fun of it or whatever.

It was like I did a show basically where I ran on a treadmill, I was escaping a giant monkey,

And I, uh, when I say it out loud, it sounds so bonkers, but you heard like voices in my head as I was trying to come to terms with sort of like a sexual abuse that happened in my past.

And, you know, it kind of changed my life.

It was this thing where, you know, I, I think actually that was when I told my parents, I was like, look, I'm going to Edinburgh to do this show and you should know what I'm about to say and about to do.

But, um, I remember when I was doing that show, Weird Survivors got wind of it and, um,

they reached out and I sort of went and met an amazing man called Duncan Craig, who's been a brilliant, not just a brilliant sort of colleague, if that's the right word, like a brilliant friend, a brilliant person, does a lot for so many people.

And I think it's a great charity.

And I'd never put my name to something that I thought wasn't doing it, but they do the most amazing work and the most amazing help for men who've been through this kind of stuff.

And

They're going from strength to strength.

And I think they're amazing.

And they've helped me down the years.