Audreia, tell us about your early
childhood and the dreams you had as a
child.
Okay. My parents were what you would
consider, Windrush. They came from Jamaica
to the UK, and I am the first one that was
born here in the UK in 1961. I was born on
the bathroom floor; my parents separated
before I was born. I didn’t meet my father
until I was two years old and then again
when I was thirteen. And my mother in the
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meantime, got on with her life. She met a
new partner, but unfortunately, that partner,
molested me when I was three years old, and
he sexually abused me when I was eight. And
in the midst of all that, because of the anger
that my mother felt towards my father, I was
a battered child for ten years, at her hands.
Oh, I suffered broken bones and head injuries.
But during that journey, I fell in love with
art, so I can draw and paint, and I did that
since the age of eight. And I love singing,
and I love gymnastics. And because my body
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