Tristan Tate

There is a window. I still remember the view. I could probably paint a picture from memory of the exact view. I'm facing a very ugly communist era apartment block and there's a tiny corner of a park. I drive past it sometimes to make myself feel better. I literally drive past my jail just to make myself smile.

So this is the craziest thing. You have to understand that even the Romanian police officers and the Romanian prison guards knew that I was unjustly in prison. A lot of them, and I can't say their names because they get in trouble, but a lot of them, the high level people in the prison would say to me, look, guys, I'm sorry you're here. This is just the way it is. And when I got

So this is the craziest thing. You have to understand that even the Romanian police officers and the Romanian prison guards knew that I was unjustly in prison. A lot of them, and I can't say their names because they get in trouble, but a lot of them, the high level people in the prison would say to me, look, guys, I'm sorry you're here. This is just the way it is. And when I got

So this is the craziest thing. You have to understand that even the Romanian police officers and the Romanian prison guards knew that I was unjustly in prison. A lot of them, and I can't say their names because they get in trouble, but a lot of them, the high level people in the prison would say to me, look, guys, I'm sorry you're here. This is just the way it is. And when I got

the news that I was free. So you'd go to court and you'd wait for the phone call. Now, I, Andrew, was always hopeful of going home. Andrew, every single time that we were waiting for this phone call, which was six or seven times over the period, Andrew'd be like, oh, maybe we'll go home. What are we going to do? We can go home. I was just like, nope. It's a matrix attack. F*** it.

the news that I was free. So you'd go to court and you'd wait for the phone call. Now, I, Andrew, was always hopeful of going home. Andrew, every single time that we were waiting for this phone call, which was six or seven times over the period, Andrew'd be like, oh, maybe we'll go home. What are we going to do? We can go home. I was just like, nope. It's a matrix attack. F*** it.

the news that I was free. So you'd go to court and you'd wait for the phone call. Now, I, Andrew, was always hopeful of going home. Andrew, every single time that we were waiting for this phone call, which was six or seven times over the period, Andrew'd be like, oh, maybe we'll go home. What are we going to do? We can go home. I was just like, nope. It's a matrix attack. F*** it.

I'm going to keep us in jail forever. We're going to be here years. I just went to sleep. I ignored the news. So when the news came through and my lawyer told us we were going home, I literally banged on the prison door and I said, I shouted in Romanian, I'm going home. The words are Merce Macasa in Romanian.

I'm going to keep us in jail forever. We're going to be here years. I just went to sleep. I ignored the news. So when the news came through and my lawyer told us we were going home, I literally banged on the prison door and I said, I shouted in Romanian, I'm going home. The words are Merce Macasa in Romanian.

I'm going to keep us in jail forever. We're going to be here years. I just went to sleep. I ignored the news. So when the news came through and my lawyer told us we were going home, I literally banged on the prison door and I said, I shouted in Romanian, I'm going home. The words are Merce Macasa in Romanian.

And everybody, the guards, the prisoners, everybody erupted in this massive cheer because everybody knew I shouldn't have been there in the first place. Everybody erupted in this massive like applause. And it was, yeah, it was a very, very good feeling and sleeping in my own bed and It's one of those times you're not a party animal like me.

And everybody, the guards, the prisoners, everybody erupted in this massive cheer because everybody knew I shouldn't have been there in the first place. Everybody erupted in this massive like applause. And it was, yeah, it was a very, very good feeling and sleeping in my own bed and It's one of those times you're not a party animal like me.

And everybody, the guards, the prisoners, everybody erupted in this massive cheer because everybody knew I shouldn't have been there in the first place. Everybody erupted in this massive like applause. And it was, yeah, it was a very, very good feeling and sleeping in my own bed and It's one of those times you're not a party animal like me.

You've probably never been so drunk that you wake up and you don't know where you are. But I've been there. And it was one of those times where literally I woke up probably five, ten times during the night and I didn't know where I was. It took a while to kind of adjust. I still had my prison beard, you know, at the end.

You've probably never been so drunk that you wake up and you don't know where you are. But I've been there. And it was one of those times where literally I woke up probably five, ten times during the night and I didn't know where I was. It took a while to kind of adjust. I still had my prison beard, you know, at the end.

You've probably never been so drunk that you wake up and you don't know where you are. But I've been there. And it was one of those times where literally I woke up probably five, ten times during the night and I didn't know where I was. It took a while to kind of adjust. I still had my prison beard, you know, at the end.

You feel the cockroaches, the insects, everything that used to wake you up, the mosquitoes, everything that used to wake you up in jail. You feel it in your dreams or in your subconscious. And you're like, I'd shoot awake every single time. But yeah, it was very strange. I didn't know where I was.

You feel the cockroaches, the insects, everything that used to wake you up, the mosquitoes, everything that used to wake you up in jail. You feel it in your dreams or in your subconscious. And you're like, I'd shoot awake every single time. But yeah, it was very strange. I didn't know where I was.

You feel the cockroaches, the insects, everything that used to wake you up, the mosquitoes, everything that used to wake you up in jail. You feel it in your dreams or in your subconscious. And you're like, I'd shoot awake every single time. But yeah, it was very strange. I didn't know where I was.

It took me three or four days of sleeping in my own bed until I realized I was actually free to walk around my house and see my friends and talk to people. It was an experience like none other. You couldn't replicate it. No matter how much money you had, no matter who you hired, you couldn't possibly replicate that feeling.