Sir Lenny Henry

You come home from school one day, maybe it's a Friday, and all the furniture's gone.

And you think your parents have moved out, but they haven't because they're having a rent party on the Saturday.

And all they've done is they've moved the furniture upstairs and there's going to be a rent party.

And your mom spends all day cooking curry goat and rice and fried fish.

and stuff and dumplings.

And so she's in the kitchen cooking that all day.

And your dad's gone out and he's got a load of booze from the off-license and it's pay or return.

So he's going to sell booze and you're having a rent party because sometimes you don't have enough money to pay the rent, Mr. Brandrette.

So you need a rent party and people pay to come in your house to come to the party.

So I had alcohol, but they didn't know I was having alcohol.

they might guess because like midnight I'm seven and I'm going woohoo every night I go to sleep I have a wet dream and they're going that kid needs to go to bed he's had some baby sham or something so yeah I'd had alcohol and I did like the taste of it but it was never a problem

I did like a drink and I did party a lot and I really liked it.

But there was a moment when I thought I better not do this because I'm on the telly now and people.

So when I was in shows doing summer seasons and stuff, I drank St.

Clemens.

I drank that a lot.

And then when I was 18, I drank more.

I was very proud that I survived the first eight years because I was growing up...

In public.

Yeah.