That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
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I wasted a year doing nothing at 18. I got with a guy and just wanted to hang out. It didn’t do me any favours.
I’d have done everything earlier and with more style.
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Anybody who met me before I was 30, because I was a drug addict, and all my relationships were experienced through that prism.
That way madness lies.
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