Tyler West

But when I was younger, honestly, no lie, my mum used to get called into school and they would ask, is everything all right at home?

Because I would go into school, I would sit at the back of the class.

I wouldn't say anything to anyone.

Why do you think you were so shy?

I don't know.

I think I was just always like, I was always scared of the world.

Like...

I hung around with the wrong people when I was really, well, sort of like 30 in my teenage years.

That didn't help.

I was always sort of like in the shadows behind another bigger voice in the room.

Didn't really understand confidence and things like that.

And then consequently I went through like quite a traumatic few years.

I struggled so bad mentally.

But the positive spin on that though is that Hamble was the thing at my school that got me back out of my bedroom.

Yeah.

And then from that, the interview with CBBC.

And then from that, it was like all these opportunities.

So if like, if I hadn't gone through those tough times then, I wouldn't be here with you now.

Exactly.

Exactly.