In the days after he’d made the video of me, I begged him to delete it; but he wouldn’t.

Important life news deserves a bit more than a text message.

I was working full time, living paycheck to paycheck without any offer from Tom to pay back. 

I started to worry that I’d slept with an incel.

Let me be clear: my hair is not public property.

If you had asked me 20 minutes before whether I would be getting laid, I would have laughed at the mere notion.

Three people named James Bond talk about what it’s like to navigate life in the shadow of the most famous Secret Service agent.

If the world was going to try to tell my daughter she wasn’t enough, I needed to be the louder voice.

I naively thought he’d change his ways if he became a dad. But I was very wrong.

I’m aware that’s a shocking thing to say, and for many, a shocking thing to hear.

Basically, it didn’t matter what I did or said, mum was going to hurt me one way or another.

I couldn’t believe it.

‘You believe in dinosaurs, babe?!’ he said, with a questioning, serious look on his face now.  

I am more of a voyeur – that is, I like watching – than a performer.

I am more of a voyeur – that is, I like watching – than a performer.

Charlie could’ve been saved.

Sadly, the programme brought me right back to the mid 2000s, when I was a new recruit.

Sadly, the programme brought me right back to the mid 2000s, when I was a new recruit.

Sadly, the programme brought me right back to the mid 2000s, when I was a new recruit.

It has been a long journey full of setbacks and soul-searching. 

Zoe died aged 20 of cardiac arrest after suffering a massive asthma attack.

I feel at peace.

No explanation, no comfort, no goodbye. No final message to me and our three young children. 

I went round two or three nights a week – and every day at school, he pretended he didn’t know me.

As the nights grew darker, I began to completely isolate myself in my flat.