Stace Don

You go into, like, your shell or you fight back, you know, when you stand up.

And unfortunately for my mum, she went into her shell.

So, yeah, as much as...

It hurts and parts of me struggle with that.

I also try and put myself, what if I couldn't fight?

And then years where I was sat behind closed doors, that's where my mum was at, you know, so my brain's really torn with it.

Yeah, I do, I think.

It's, yeah, I am, I'm really split down the middle.

I think I do forget, but I think it just blows up.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm fine.

So when I was 17, in 2006, I agreed to go down for Christmas because I believed everything he said, you know, on the phone.

And he was getting his wife to message me daily.

And at that time, like, I had nowhere to live.

I was staying with my friend and I was to-ing and fro-ing back to my mum's, but I didn't like to be at my mum's because of a partner, you know, like, because he was horrible with me.

So I agreed to go down for Christmas.

And when I got there,

I nearly hadn't changed.

Like, not changed one bit.

So I travelled down there on the coach and then I got there and his wife was there at Southend Station with my sibling and my other sibling.