Sam Troth

And he said to me that he knew that I wasn't meant to be there and

He said that he felt that there was something I needed to talk about and, you know, and I said, yeah, yeah, fuck, you know, I was sexually abused, you know, and this and that.

And he sort of just encouraged me to address it and to tell my family.

So when I got out, I sort of, with that motivation of him telling me that I needed to do something about it, I asked for a family meeting and...

For whatever reason, my mum couldn't come down and my other sister couldn't make it.

So I remember anyway, I was staying with my sister at the time I'd been released to her house.

So she'd come home and she said, what did you actually want to talk to everyone about anyway?

And so I just blurted it out to her.

And I remember she just dropped to her knees, screaming, crying, hugging me.

She was just in shock.

And then told my parents.

She told my mum.

And my mum come down from Auckland and we had a moment, a nice moment, you know, where, you know, where things were said and

And, you know, I can't really remember the exact context, but, you know, I do remember her coming down and acknowledging and holding space for me, you know, to the best capacity that she was able to sort of thing.

It was a big relief for me because it gave everyone an explanation and

as to why I was behaving the way I was, why I was in addiction, why I was all of these things, um, was because of what had happened, you know?

So it explained, gave everyone a lot more clarity about, about Sam.

Um, we've only spoken a few words up until recently.

Um,

I know it's really hard for him.