I was 5 years old when I was taken into care. I suffered verbal and physical abuse from a young age. I grew up hating authority. I wasn’t allowed to see my family and felt unwanted and unloved.
I joined Intermission Youth Theatre when I was 14. I thought I knew it all at that age. I thought I could do anything I liked. I didn’t want to listen to anyone. I’d go missing. I wouldn’t go home. I was getting involved with the wrong crowd.
But every time I went to the Youth Theatre, I felt normal. I felt wanted. I felt part of a family which I hadn’t really experienced before. And I realised that I wanted to be around the Intermission family more than the wrong crowd.
I now run my own business housing young people at risk and helping them get into education and employment.
IYT has helped me get to where I am now and I will always appreciate it as a family.
