If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.