Spencer Matthews

But, you know, I'm not a crier, really.

I just don't really...

do it.

My father's a very proud Yorkshireman.

My brothers were born up in Sheffield, which I realize isn't fully up in the North.

I think it's fair to say that my brothers and dad at least would consider themselves Yorkshireman Northerners.

We always just grew up in a

Not that crying was negative or weak, just that it wouldn't help you.

And that was the reality of, I would cry and my dad would say, crying won't help you.

There's no point in crying.

It's not going to make you feel any better, which could be wrong, but maybe it will make you feel better.

But I grew up just...

And again, I do want to reiterate that we don't, we didn't think it was weak.

It just wasn't, it's kind of like, it's not going to get you from A to B. If you're on your way to, from A to B and, you know, you're crying along the way, you know, it's not going to help you get there.

Essentially was how, how it was.

what I grew up with.

But, you know, I don't regret or resent anything about my life and childhood and love my parents.

And we have a wonderful relationship.

You know, I think it's that's been slightly misconstrued in the past when I've said that, you know, my father wouldn't let me cry.

I think, you know, he was kind of indifferent to whether or not I was crying.