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I did say sorry to my mum, for being the way I was when I was a teenager. You become a parent and go, “Oh my God, this is what they were doing.”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 January 2026 source ↗
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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.
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