Sita Walker

How did that strike you at the time?

It worried me.

I was worried.

I was worried about it because, you know, this is people's souls we're dealing with.

When you're a person of great faith, you're thinking about not just the now, you're thinking about your everlasting soul.

How did his new way of living rub off on you?

Baha'is, for example, don't drink alcohol.

Smoking is frowned upon, but it is not, you know, outlawed in any way.

But they don't drink.

They don't have sex before marriage.

They don't obviously backbite, although I'd definitely done a bit of that.

They don't take drugs.

Yeah.

Yeah, which is common to many religions and not just the Baha'i faith, but it was a strong thing in my house.

So throughout all my teenage years, I never had a drop of alcohol, not at any party, not anywhere.

So I thought...

I'll give that a go because I'd always kind of pictured myself as being this, you know, fantastic bohemian artist and, you know, with a glass of red wine in my hand and, you know, gaily smoking at parties and whatnot and that kind of lifestyle was very glamorous to me and I sort of thought, well, I'm going to give red wine a go because Bohan had, you know, partaken.

He was sort of free of everything at that point and so was trying things out.

And I just thought, you know what, stuff it.

I'm going to give it a go.