00:00Talk about it in regards to your personal life, you have been very open and very honest in the past,
00:06so you've suffered with your mental health, you've helped a lot of other people through that, so when did you
00:12first go through mental health difficulties, can you remember that first time?
00:17I mean, all through my life I've been through mental difficulties, even when I went to the bursault, I had
00:21the difficulty, I said, how can my mum, lovely, and send me to a bursault like this, I thought I
00:28was tough, but there's more tougher people than me, they are, they want to beat you up, lick your cake,
00:34send you down the shop to get them cigarettes, 2-11 knows what, and you've got to find your way
00:39up the ladder to let them back off from you, you know, which I had to do, with boxing.
00:44But you've used your personal struggles to help other people, you help people with the foundation as well.
00:50Yeah, it's a nice touch stage, you know what I mean, but it wouldn't need some help sometimes, so if
00:55you can help, give a little bit of luck and a little bit of health back, there's no grinding there.
01:00Of course, you've been very open, especially in your books, about when you were hospitalised, the section of the Mental
01:06Health Act.
01:07All the time.
01:08Did they just, was it your family that put the suggestion that you needed that help, did they, like how
01:13did that happen at the time?
01:15I think the manager at the time and the trainer at the time, I talked to my family, all of
01:18them were talking behind my back, and that's when I got sectioned for the first time.
01:23And you've, since then, there's been a couple of times you've gone back in and come out.
01:27Yeah, I'm trying to keep away from that now, you know, because I don't need, I don't want.
01:30Cuckoo, cuckoo.
01:35You know when people come up to you and say, especially men, and they've said that your story has helped
01:40them to get some help, and to go out and speak to someone, how does that make you feel?
01:45It actually makes you feel very, very nice, you know what I mean, it's when you have a little tear
01:48in your eye.
01:48Because men don't say things, they don't really mean it, and I met a lot of men here today, and
01:54women, and they're very sweet of them, so I've got to say God bless you all for coming today.
