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00:00What do you do when your teenage daughter turns out like this?
00:23A spoiled brat.
00:26Arrested ten times.
00:30A complete dropout.
00:33A runaway.
00:36Violent rages.
00:40A serial truant.
00:43Or a lazy stoner.
00:46Send them to an all-girl brat camp for out-of-control teams slap-bang in the middle of the Utah wilderness.
00:53You taking the fucking piece?
00:56For the past seven weeks, the girls have been living in stone-age conditions.
01:01They've hiked for days on end and clashed with the staff.
01:06Fucking fuck you up.
01:08And with each other.
01:09We're all in my fucking face!
01:11Lucy Tyson was so badly behaved, she was transferred to another site.
01:17But for the other girls, there was no escape.
01:21If you're watching this at home, you shouldn't send your kids here.
01:25You really, really should, and they'll hate you forever.
01:28Ever and ever.
01:29Ever and ever.
01:38At long last, there's an air of calm about the camp.
01:42No one has more peppers?
01:43Yeah.
01:44Is there any buns on the go or not?
01:45Yeah.
01:46Seven weeks in the wilderness, without cigarettes, drink or drugs, seems to be finally taming
01:53these teenage tearaways.
01:56It just changed you without you necessarily realizing it at the time.
02:00And then you look back, you're like, shit, I've changed a lot.
02:02I will never forget anything about this experience.
02:06Whenever a situation comes up, when someone, like, brings me down, I'll think of everything
02:10I've learned about myself and about interaction, and I'll use all of it.
02:14No!
02:15Get it out!
02:16I've got a lot more confidence within myself, a lot more self-esteem and everything, and
02:20I just now realize that I am actually worth a healthy life.
02:25With graduation on the cards, one girl is particularly confident that all the hard work has already
02:30been done.
02:31I am thinking, I've done this now.
02:33What else is there to do?
02:34I don't really know what else I've got to do.
02:36I mean, I know obviously they want us to carry on being there we are, but what's the point
02:41if we're ready sort of thing?
02:43But nobody is going home until staff are convinced that their progress is for real.
02:49Goody Two-Shoes Lydia may have kept out of trouble so far, but this is not enough.
02:55I see Lydia falling into the category of students who think that they're going to get out of
03:02here the fastest by being really good and following all the rules.
03:06And on some level we want them to do that.
03:09We also want some of the other stuff to come out.
03:12Before Utah, Lydia got through her day by taking a cocktail of drink and drugs.
03:17Lydia has been hospitalized twice for overdosing and ecstasy and on the last occasion she collapsed
03:26on a pavement.
03:27I started to get really violent and I completely trashed the ambulance car.
03:31And we know in the past that she's, you know, stolen stuff and bought drugs with it.
03:36My last school I stole these two girls' phones and sold them.
03:41There was nothing else I could have done because I owed a dealer a lot of money.
03:47She could do so much with her life, but she's doing this.
03:56Today the staff have a surprise in store for Lydia.
04:00They want to make sure she really has developed some strength of character.
04:05Right now, Lydia, we need you to go pack up and come with me and Phil.
04:17This has nothing to do with graduation or anything like that, parents, nothing to do with that.
04:22What's going on?
04:23Is she doing a solo?
04:25That's all I'm going to say right now.
04:27What the hell?
04:29What?
04:30What's going on?
04:31It's all right, Lydia.
04:32Calm down.
04:33Yeah, calm down.
04:34I hope you people didn't know what's going on.
04:36I don't want to go on and say that.
04:38Lydia is going on solo.
04:43She's going to spend the next three days in complete isolation.
04:47The only shoulder to cry on will be her own.
04:50I just hate them not knowing where I'm going next.
04:53And the fact that they could just dump me somewhere on my own in the middle of the wilderness
04:59for a couple of days.
05:00It's really not very nice.
05:01It's make or break for Lydia.
05:06Okay, let's push these carts.
05:19Get the circus on the road.
05:20Are you ready?
05:21Yeah.
05:22Go!
05:23For the rest of the group, it's the final push on the road home.
05:33If they can keep up the good behaviour, graduation could be just around the corner.
05:39Stop.
05:40Stop.
05:41We're right here.
05:42But at a water stop, graduation front runner Georgie makes an unexpected discovery.
05:47We found a fag butt with that much backy in it still, and we're going to smoke it.
05:51But shh.
05:52Everyone's in on it.
05:53So we've got about two tokes each, maximum.
05:56Back home, all of the girls were heavy smokers.
06:00A discarded dog end is a major temptation.
06:03I get it first because I've been taking the risk with looking.
06:08I get it second.
06:09I've been picking it up.
06:10I picked it up.
06:11But not all of the girls want a part in the plan.
06:14Rosie, for one, doesn't.
06:16You don't make me laugh, man.
06:17You don't want about, oh, yeah, I want to progress, I want to do this, and then you
06:21go and do that.
06:22I agree.
06:23It's just wrong.
06:24What has that got to do with no progress?
06:27Well, we might jeopardise everything.
06:31The girls know they're playing with fire.
06:34Aspen demand 100% honesty from their students.
06:38By the time they reach camp, the girls have got cold feet and dispose of the evidence under
06:44a cowpat.
06:45Where is it?
06:46Who threw it?
06:47You.
06:48Good.
06:49Good.
06:50But the staff have found out.
06:51It was fine.
06:52She threw it away.
06:53What?
06:54So, honestly, ladies, at this point, like, I don't have much trust for any of you.
06:57Oh, fantastic.
06:58And, like, to say that you threw it away, it's really hard for me to believe that.
07:02Where did you throw it?
07:03For a while down the road.
07:08Before they bed down for the night, staff insist the girls retrieve the offending dog end.
07:14When I thought I saw you throw it away, I thought you went over there.
07:17But with a wilderness full of cowpats, it could take a while.
07:22You stood it under a cowpit?
07:24Yeah.
07:25Oh, God.
07:26But it could have been so much sugar.
07:28It's there.
07:29I think we should circle up around this.
07:32I feel very surprised.
07:35I had a lot of trust in you.
07:39And it makes me feel hurt when I find this stuff out.
07:48At Aspen, the price of rule-breaking is demotion.
07:53Most of the girls had reached the program's third level.
07:56But now, any hope of graduation might just have gone up in smoke.
08:01To be honest, I will be really pissed off if I get demoted.
08:06Because to me that was a big achievement.
08:10Resisting that cigarette, man.
08:12This program has changed me and I can't be unchanged again.
08:17It's changed me and I've seen the error of my ways.
08:20But I'm not gonna sit with getting demoted for achieving something.
08:27On Solo, Lydia's managed to keep her emotions under control.
08:44Before I came here, I was getting really stressed and I couldn't take it.
08:51I know how to deal with my emotions and just sit with them and cope with it without getting overwhelmed.
08:57And obviously, like Lauren and everyone, have taught me strategies to cope.
09:01And I just put it all together as one coping skill and just thought to myself, just get on with this.
09:07She's even used the time alone to face some difficult home truths.
09:12She's writing to her parents after deciding to be honest with them for the first time in her life.
09:18It's just basically, like, coming clean about stuff I've done.
09:22Like, I've included that I sold my mum's iPod.
09:25Because before I came, she didn't know.
09:27I sold my mum's iPod for, I think it was 40 quid.
09:30Which is, like, a very little amount, but I was really desperate at the time and I spent it on some speed and a bag of weed.
09:47Back at the main group, the staff have called a meeting.
09:51We decided that all of you involved, Julie, Danny and Georgie, would be demoted to mouse.
09:58We picked up a fag. Yeah, no one's lit it. No one's smoked it.
10:02And slowly, everyone's backed down and come out of it.
10:04And then we're all demoted to mouse.
10:06I think it's completely pathetic, to be perfectly honest.
10:08And, yeah, I'm quite disappointed that it happened, but I ain't...
10:13I don't know. I'm saying it's still getting... I'm not starting.
10:17They've blown it.
10:19Mouse means Georgie, Danny and Julia are back to the programme's first level.
10:25But this time, at least, nobody's having a tantrum.
10:29I, myself, feel like I've acted really, really badly.
10:33I'm just quite ashamed of myself that I behaved the way I did.
10:36What's the point of getting bloody angry?
10:39I learnt a lesson that I needed to learn.
10:42OK, I've got something to tell you.
10:44There's some shock news for the worst brat of all.
10:47Are you serious?
10:48Yeah.
10:49Yes!
10:50And a tearful farewell for the group.
10:53I'm gonna miss you.
10:54I'm gonna miss you.
10:55I'm gonna miss you.
10:56I don't miss you.
10:57They've hiked.
11:00They've fought.
11:01They've struggled to face their demons.
11:04But now, two weeks after the incident with the fag butt, the group are all back within striking distance of graduation.
11:10they've hiked they've fought they've struggled to face their demons but now two weeks after the
11:19incident with the fag but the group are all back within striking distance of graduation if anyone
11:26has seen another dog end nobody's picked it up today therapist Lauren has some rather important
11:34news today is the day finally where we are going to split the group and the girls who are going to
11:43graduation will be leaving I anticipate it to be a highly emotional day there's been a lot of bumps
11:50in the road and this is going to be one of this is a good bump but a sad bump it has come to the point
11:56where some of the members are going to be leaving today and some of you still have a few things
12:04to accomplish and I don't feel like it would have been fair for you to leave without accomplishing
12:08that and without being able the chance to accomplish those things I'd like to say that Georgie will be
12:23leaving today you're saying goodbye to group 8 and group 8 is saying goodbye to you I'll always be here
12:31in thought whether I'm here with you or not and I hope that when you're struggling on a hike or
12:39everyone's pissed off leave my stupid hair or my disgusting smell and you can laugh and keep the
12:44spirits high I mean see you all soon
12:47so we've said goodbye to Georgie and so now Rosie it's your turn
12:59I hope for you is that you see the beautiful person that you become and I've given you lots of
13:12feedback on what I love about you
13:15so Lydia what what went on for you right then when you weren't one of the ones leaving
13:23oh I didn't like really think of that I was it's just the main shock of like
13:27just them leaving you can leave with these two
13:32oh my gosh oh my god are you being serious I'm being very serious oh my god you would not believe
13:40how fast my heart is beating right now so Lydia will be um leaving with Rosie and Georgie
13:46so five minutes
13:51for those left behind it's a harsh reality check
14:01what are you saddest about
14:07Danny Julie and Poppy still have stuff that they can work on out here and they've been left behind
14:23to continue to work on that stuff and they haven't pushed themselves to the extent that Georgie and
14:29Rosie and Lydia have right away so I think as they continue to work then their turn will come to
14:34Georgie Rosie and Lydia have completed all of their coursework and have worked hard to change the
14:41behaviors that brought them here
14:43I've done it now and you know I've really just proved myself
14:48I'm gonna see my mom and dad
14:50me and my mom I'm looking forward to seeing a load to communicate and do all those things that we
14:59haven't been doing for years because we've been really crap at it for years and
15:01I'm really looking forward to making a new style of her I'm feeling excited but a bit overwhelmed and
15:09um doesn't feel very real right now I don't know I don't actually feel like I've been taken away from
15:14the group for the rest of my life
15:21a hundred miles away deep in Utah cowboy country the girl whose violent rages prove too much for Aspen
15:31is only midway through her new program
15:34a tough regime of hard work and harsh discipline seems to have put pay to Lucy's anger problem
15:42I think I'm making a lot more progress
15:44I know it can work if I put the effort in
15:47I want to change and I want to be like a good family again kind of thing
15:52about my anger like destroying it
15:55good girl keep it up keep him going don't let him slow down
15:58having got this far Lucy is about to face a further challenge
16:02a three-day visit from her parents
16:05I know
16:05okay I've got something to tell you okay are you ready for this do you think
16:10yeah yeah you're going on midterm today that's what you're going to be doing
16:15you serious
16:16yep
16:17yes
16:17oh that's a good one
16:21do it you can do it all right get it done
16:23it'll be the first time in more than two months that Lucy has seen her mum and dad
16:30the last time she saw them she was behaving like this
16:36fuck you
16:38fuck you I haven't even saved it
16:40you're fucking Peter and you're fucking fucking stupid
16:45I'm free for another prayer that has taken me ages
16:51unsurprisingly Lucy's parents who've just arrived are somewhat nervous
16:57I kind of got so I didn't want to come
17:02I didn't want to see her because I hadn't actually realized until she'd gone away how much
17:10damage she had done and I don't know that I'm actually ready to sort of face her and go
17:14through it yet to be honest
17:21hi Lucy
17:23all right
17:29yeah
17:31it's good to see you again
17:34yeah
17:35I'm doing well
17:40good
17:41I missed you
17:42I missed you good
17:44I thought I'd do something wrong because you weren't writing
17:47you didn't write to us for over a fortnight at the other one
17:49yeah I know
17:50she looks a lot healthier than before she left
17:54and she's obviously been out in the sunshine rather than sitting in her bedroom and smoking
17:58so that's good
18:00yeah
18:01yeah
18:02I don't pretend I didn't know that you weren't sitting in your bed and smoking
18:05so I'm not stupid
18:06hi
18:13for Lucy's counsellor Dana the family reunion is also a chance to find out where things went wrong back home
18:20willing to guess that if we look back over time we'll see that this pattern started years and years and years ago
18:28when Lucy was small of throwing tantrums
18:31has that been something she's done for us
18:33oh she's always throwing tantrums yeah
18:35but because they're so huge you need somebody else to support you while it's going especially since she's got bigger
18:42Jeff's always been the good guy and I've always been the drudge
18:45I mean I can remember she was shouting and screaming about something
18:48she called me a stupid fucking whore
18:51um
18:52he went out to the off license a bit later and came back with some smarties and a bottle of dr pepper for her
18:57but at the time
18:58but all that
18:59I didn't even realise that at the time
19:00all that says to her
19:01it wasn't until later on wait
19:02oh yeah she told me that
19:03but all that says to her is
19:05you know you can treat mum like anything it doesn't really matter because dad will come through
19:09okay
19:10so we need to look at what we can do to strengthen what's going on between the two of you
19:14so that when she comes back home some of that is already in place
19:20because we need to make Lucy ready to come home but home needs to be ready for Lucy
19:24yeah
19:25for the Tysons it's work in progress
19:28Lucy is still weeks away from returning home
19:31the parents of the girls who are going home have arrived in Utah
19:45after almost 10 weeks apart from their daughters
19:48will it all have been worth it
19:50I do feel really nervous because I don't know what to expect
19:54you know the Lydia that we dropped off at the airport all those weeks ago
19:58it's going to be very different to the one that we meet today
20:01when we said goodbye at the airport
20:03she was you know I got my little speech ready as to what I was going to say
20:07you know pearly words of wisdom from mum
20:09and she completely you know bypassed that and told me that
20:13in no uncertain terms don't cry or else but stronger language
20:17so I'm hoping I'm not going to get the same reaction
20:20my stomach's turning over
20:22and part of me is just really excited but part of me is just
20:25I'm sort of I've sort of a little bit worried about how it's going to go as well
20:29and I'm just going to go as well
20:33I'm just going to go as well
20:36I'm just going to go as well
20:40I'm just going to go as well
20:43go wow
20:46look at that
20:49this is about celebrating
20:52an absolutely phenomenal journey okay
20:56But know that when this is all done and you're on your way home, the journey really has just begun.
21:06The girls are waiting half a mile away for the radio call to bring them home.
21:12To graduate, they must run towards their families.
21:16It's known as the run-in.
21:18Your parents are here.
21:21It's time to put all the tools that you've learned at Aspen to use.
21:26Right now.
21:29Hey, how are you guys feeling?
21:32Excited and nervous.
21:34Me too.
21:37Oh, my God, I'm going to cry.
21:40Hey, JT, we are ready for Rosie to come and meet her mom.
21:43Me too, see you.
21:47Okay, we're sending Rosie.
21:49Go ahead, Rosie.
21:49Before she came to Utah, Rosie had been so depressed she could barely get out of bed.
21:57New mom!
21:59New mom!
21:59All right, Rosie!
22:08Oh, she feels stronger.
22:20Is that good?
22:22Yeah.
22:22Yeah, well, who are all these people behind me?
22:32I can't bother to run.
22:3410-4, we're sending Lydia. Go ahead.
22:38At home, Lydia and her parents had been locked in a battle over her dropout lifestyle.
22:44Run, Lydia, run!
22:46Come on!
22:52Oh, I'm looking good.
23:04You're so healthy.
23:06I know I've been hiking every day.
23:09I can't stop looking at you.
23:17Oh, my God, I feel sick.
23:19We're sending Georgie.
23:23Oh, my God.
23:25No!
23:26Go, Georgie, go!
23:27No!
23:28It's time!
23:29My gosh, George.
23:31In the UK, Georgie had been so off her face on drugs, her mother could barely recognise her.
23:37Whoo!
23:40Come, Georgie!
23:41Go, Georgie!
23:43Yeah, George!
23:44Yeah, George!
23:45Yeah!
23:47Yeah!
23:59Hi!
24:01And you look incredible!
24:03You look incredible.
24:08It is so good to see you.
24:10Let's have a look at this hair.
24:13Go on, show us.
24:15Look at this.
24:18And the eyebrows are growing bright.
24:24Just to see Georgie with a happy face again is just brilliant.
24:28Not this really moody, stroppy, sulky adolescent.
24:34She's just really, you know, it's just like she's speaking in a different way.
24:38She's much clearer, you know, and someone just said how beautiful she looked,
24:42and she just said, thank you, you know, and she never, she would have been going,
24:45oh, God, like that, or just, you know, sort of brushed it off,
24:48and she just said, thank you, which is incredible.
24:52Definitely worked, definitely worked.
24:55She's another person.
24:57She's a person that I just want to be with and can't wait to be with her.
25:02It's wonderful.
25:03Yeah, they found the fire within, definitely.
25:05Yeah.
25:07Aspen can only map these girls' journeys so far.
25:11Which direction they take now is down to them.
25:14It's all too much for Poppy.
25:23Oh, my gosh, this is so extreme.
25:26And it's back to Britain with a bump.
25:29Lydia, the contract starts now.
25:31First there were seven, then there were six, and now there are only three.
25:46For the last remaining British kids at Aspen,
25:49there's just one final hurdle to jump before they can go home.
25:53Now, that's signing a contract of good behaviour drawn up by their parents.
26:03It's my behavioural contract.
26:05It tells me basically what I've got to do.
26:12I commit to not take any drugs whatsoever
26:14and be sensible with the amount of alcohol I consume.
26:17All I've got to do is tidy my room,
26:19tidy the bathroom once a month.
26:21Boys will not be allowed to stay overnight since I'm 17.
26:24I've got random drug tests as well.
26:28NA meetings.
26:29I'm allowed drugs.
26:31And I can't take the piss on what time I come home at night.
26:34On Sundays, I will be home by 6.30
26:35if I wish to stay with a friend or attend a party at weekends
26:38while his mum or dad must telephone with his father.
26:41What the fuck?
26:42I wasn't very happy with it when I first saw it,
26:45but I'm intending to stick to it.
26:50I didn't personally think that was that bad.
26:51People have got here like,
26:53right, you're not allowed to have a boyfriend until you're 17.
26:55You're not allowed to be in by...
26:56Poppy has to be in by 6.
26:58You're not allowed out.
26:58Monday, well, Sunday till Monday,
27:01and then she'll be in a half past 6.
27:03But the weekend, my little sister doesn't have to be in till 7 o'clock
27:06and she's 8.
27:07You know what I mean?
27:08Even Poppy seems to be complying for once.
27:11I actually want to sign the contract,
27:14but I'm kind of scared.
27:18During her time at Aspen,
27:19Poppy has been far from the model student.
27:23If you don't need to go,
27:24I'll fucking need you in the balls.
27:26Go on, then.
27:26Go on, then, hurt me.
27:27Go on, punch me.
27:27Go on, punch me.
27:28I'm not going to punch you.
27:29Go on, hit me.
27:31Go on, hit me.
27:31Go on, hurt me.
27:32Go on, break my arm.
27:33Go on.
27:33So what I'd like you to work on...
27:36You know what?
27:37I'm going to my tent and going to bed.
27:39I'm not getting the sense that you're ready to talk.
27:42Oh, yeah.
27:43That's totally tight, isn't it?
27:45That's going to work.
27:46There's definitely better ways to get attention.
27:49Whoa.
27:51Poppy, stop.
27:55But at last, she seems to have turned a corner.
27:58Coming here and having the staff not giving me my own way
28:06has been the first time in 15 years I haven't got my own way.
28:10And that's really quite scary because the world doesn't revolve around me anymore.
28:19It's a good thing, I suppose, that I've realised that.
28:22But I'm not going to get my own way again at home.
28:27It kind of sucks, really, because I liked it.
28:29But it's not a good thing, because if I can't get my own way,
28:35I would have ended up a fuck-up, by far.
28:44If Poppy keeps up her good behaviour, she could be home in a matter of days.
28:49Back in the UK, the first graduates are already arriving home.
28:59Hello.
29:05Oh, my God.
29:08Oh, it's lovely.
29:10Lydia's come home to a new bedroom.
29:13Do you like it?
29:14Oh, good.
29:14Yeah, I do really like it.
29:15The contract, Lydia, the contract starts now.
29:21You're home, you know.
29:23And everything we've agreed, it starts from here and from now.
29:30And all that time spent in the desert isn't going to be wasted and turned down the drain.
29:38How many positive things are happening?
29:45How many positive things are happening?
29:46How many positive things are happening?
29:51Following the argument, Lydia left home and didn't come back for two days.
29:56I was just devastated, but there was something that needed to happen.
30:01I mean, we were told at camp that they have to fail to succeed, really.
30:07We weren't expecting it quite so quickly.
30:10Despite the early hiccup, Lydia is now knuckling down to the new house rules.
30:16Sort of good about the curfew thing.
30:19Well, like you said, it can be stretched on weekends if it's a specific thing, because
30:23I might be working on Saturday, but if I'm not, I'll be back by whatever time you want.
30:28We needed to talk.
30:29We've had some family councils talk about the smoking and the behavioural contract and
30:34all that kind of thing, and it's been really good since then.
30:36I find it a lot easier to be able to just open up to my parents and let them know what
30:40I actually feel and, you know, what I want sort of thing.
30:44And I can listen to them and hear them what they want and stuff like that as well.
30:48I find that a lot easier now, whereas before I just, I'd barely say two words to my parents
30:53in a day.
30:54What stuff?
30:58Just people I don't want to see anymore.
31:00So what are you doing?
31:01I'm just deleting people that tend to have drugs and stuff, really.
31:05Just get rid of them so you're not tempted, yeah?
31:07Yeah.
31:08In East London, Rosie's determined not to go back to her old ways.
31:13Before Utah, her life had hit rock bottom.
31:17She was stuck in a downward spiral of drink, drugs and despair.
31:21Rosie?
31:22Yes, what the fuck are you doing?
31:24I just want you to get up.
31:26Some days I just wake up and I just feel so low.
31:29I feel disappointed.
31:30I do feel like Rosie's throwing her life away.
31:34Now, it's a completely different story.
31:36The Rosie that I've got now, when she gets up, it's early.
31:41She gets up and she's off and up before I've got up.
31:44She's training for a marathon, so she's going out running every morning.
31:48She looks healthy.
31:49And that's such a relief.
31:54It really is.
31:54It's because for such a long while I really did wonder what was going to happen for her.
31:57And Rosie has her future all planned out.
32:01I've started saving up money for when I'm 18 so I can go work in Utah at Aspen again because it was just such a wonderful place.
32:11And I really would like to go back there and help people like me.
32:14But now it's, I don't know, it's like I've got a different daughter.
32:20I mean, a really lovely daughter and someone that I actually think is going to become an amazing adult as well.
32:26In Utah, the remaining girls are still waiting to graduate.
32:36They have no idea of the camp's plans from one day to the next.
32:41Today, there is another graduation.
32:44But who has done enough to go home?
32:46I'm very, very, very anxious for what's going to happen next.
32:51And I can't, can't keep it inside anymore.
32:54You three have just started your graduation process.
32:58Oh my God.
33:00Yes.
33:01So this is the first step.
33:03It's got free.
33:04All three of the girls have finally made the grade and are going home.
33:08It's okay, puppy.
33:10Oh my gosh, this is so strange.
33:15What's going on?
33:18I'm going to see my mum and dad soon.
33:22Julie, we're going home.
33:24I don't think it's sunk in.
33:30Otherwise, I'd be feeling something.
33:34It's a big thing, leaving the wilderness.
33:37These girls have been here almost 11 weeks.
33:39And at this point, it gets, it's just a matter of that we've done what we can.
33:44And we hope that the changes that they've made will stick and it will continue when they leave here.
33:50It's been 11 long weeks of waiting and hoping, but at last it's the moment of truth.
34:09You're at the edge of the wilderness, you know.
34:20And your daughters have come to the edge to meet you.
34:24Let's go around and each of you just say, how are you feeling right now?
34:29Impatient.
34:29I'm just getting really edgy now.
34:32I just want them to come out.
34:35Yeah.
34:36That's the waiting, isn't it?
34:38I just want it to happen there.
34:39Well, I just hope that I won't cry too much, but I'm very overwhelmed by everything that's happening.
34:46So, Joanna and Chris, are you ready to see Danny?
34:50We are ready for Danny to come and meet her parents.
34:53Do you want to meet your parents?
34:54Go ahead.
34:55In the UK, Danny had run away from home more than 70 times.
35:02Come on, Danny.
35:03Come on.
35:05Come on, Danny.
35:06Run faster.
35:07Come on.
35:10It's a first for her parents to see her running towards them.
35:19Well, Tony, so proud of you, Danny.
35:22So proud of you.
35:23Come here.
35:25I'm so proud of you.
35:29I love you, Sarah.
35:31It's so beautiful.
35:32It's all this way.
35:3810-4 sending Poppy.
35:40Go ahead.
35:43Before she came to Utah, Poppy was so self-centered she'd have expected her parents to run to her.
35:50Come on, Poppy!
35:52Come on, Poppy!
35:53Come on, Poppy!
35:55Come on, Poppy!
36:01Stupid!
36:02Mom, baby, a poor boy!
36:06It's so bad.
36:07Well done.
36:09Well done.
36:10You did it.
36:11I thought I just learned.
36:13You did it.
36:13Well done.
36:15You look great.
36:16What are you wearing, Daddy?
36:18and are you ready to see Julie I am after an agonizing wait Julia is the final British
36:29girl to leave Aspen Julia's mom had been so devastated by her daughter's drug use
36:40and delinquent behavior that sending her to Utah was a life-or-death decision
36:48I'm really out of breath mom
37:02the extra time in the wilderness seems to have
37:32paid off they were they were so healthy good white teeth from not smoking yeah yeah brilliant
37:40really pleased the math towns in the past that she's just given up and walked off and she comes
37:49out here and she does all this I mean I hope she's got the confidence in herself now to go back and put
37:53her mind and stick to things because nothing can be any harder than this can it I was overwhelmed by
37:59the emotions but somehow I think we found each other for a now at least there is something about
38:16the wilderness there is a certain magic out here and it really doesn't matter who is the therapist
38:21it doesn't matter who is the staff it really matters about who the kid is and them being out here and
38:27figuring it out for themselves it's all change for Georgie I made a big decision and will the longest serving
38:39British brat ever get out of Utah
38:46all Aspen graduates have now been at home for just under a month it's no longer the wilds of Utah but the
38:56green fields of Sussex where something quite surprising has happened poppy went to Aspen a spoiled brat who
39:05didn't like the word no but she's changed now when like I'm getting into a conflict stage I will say
39:17how I feel without it coming out with fucking this fucking that and I can like take five when I need
39:23to and I'm not karma at home now compared to my lovely little violent problem okay with a new image and new
39:33attitude comes a new regime of family meetings mommy I was gonna bring this up last week then why
39:41didn't we because I wanted to wait and see if you carry on doing it I gave you another chance my mom
39:46look you keep us making in your office yeah you smoke in the kitchen in the living room I do not
39:51yes I of course you smoking in the living room and last when we will go to bed before dad comes home
39:57and in the hallway yes stop it okay she's come back from Aspen much more able to handle her behavior
40:08her emotions she has learnt the social skills of interacting poppy is not demanding in the
40:15way that she was before in fact she's not demanding at all really she requests the aggression has
40:21definitely gone I think that poppy's learnt new values more important values in life when we see
40:30that change in her and it's good changes I think she's grown up
40:33it was far from happy families in Danny's household four months ago Dale has been reported a missing
40:54person about 70 or 80 times in the last 12 months when I get home I get the bollocking so I go again
41:00I've got no idea I'm totally from away from home I got all my family really as well if Dale
41:07a car is on the way that she is that then she will just move out when she's 16 and I think then we'll
41:13probably probably probably lose it for a long time since her return she hasn't run away and for the first
41:20time ever is enjoying spending time with her family I used to run away from everything emotionally and
41:26everything so now I just text my mom tell her where I am bring my friends back home and everything
41:32instead of 24 hours out I'm back in college and just like talking to people more and just being not so
41:40mouthy really got more settled the Daniela that came home was somebody that I didn't recognize at
41:46all I mean we haven't really got a relationship with Daniela anymore there was no communication
41:51before she was never here I think as as the weeks have gone on since she's come back I do trust her
41:57now I think one of the things she's very very honest is your phone switched on yeah my pocket
42:03give us a call if you're gonna be late it's very difficult trying to get used to having this
42:08different person in the house from somebody that wouldn't talk at all about anything she would
42:15she now comes and sits with you and and openly engages in having a conversation which is just
42:23fantastic before Brett camp Julia had a lifestyle that would make every parent shudder
42:33basically I'm addicted to cannabis everything in her life it was destroyed because of drugs I'm like
42:45weird when I don't smoke it my head goes weird and fucks up when I don't smoke it that's the reason I
42:49actually need to smoke it now back that healthy glow from Utah has faded and reality has set in
43:01but Julia claims she's still off the drugs I haven't I haven't smoked pot or taken any drugs at all because
43:10I don't think they're like any good for you in the long time her mom isn't convinced there's been much
43:17of a change when I saw her in Utah I saw hard-working and persistent girl and I thought if she can translate
43:30those skills to her life after she comes back that would be fantastic but she hasn't and when I complained
43:39that she's not making much effort she's not doing any college work she says that it's her nature she's
43:46lazy she's got her dad's genes and this explanation so-called lazy genes when I came back my mom wanted me to be
43:56like more self-disciplined and stuff I think she thinks I've wasted it or something but don't I mean
44:03like going away I think I could have probably done a bit better but I think I got a lot out of it
44:08and it was a really good experience
44:12well that you can't have been there that long your hair's still pink in there when did you lose the pink
44:23out of your hair Georgie's journey in Utah was the most dramatic of all angry with her mom for
44:32sending her she went in kicking and screaming there's a few old ladies that would have been proud of that
44:49color now with her temper back under control her relationship with her mom is on the up I don't
44:57have one single regret at all about sending Georgie to Aspen best decision I've ever made you know a
45:06sense of humor's back she's got the right sparkle in her eye the spirit of Georgie is there and that's
45:13the very essence of Georgie that's what everyone really liked about Georgie and that's what's been
45:19missing for so long so it's it's incredible to have the real Georgie back but the temptations of
45:27her old lifestyle and never far away it's really weird spooky it's hard when I'm in Brighton and I'm
45:35on the beach and the dealers are out and they're all flogging pills as much as that the first course did
45:41for me I just don't think I have enough strength and determination in me to not relapse worried she
45:49may slip back into old habits Georgie has a plan I made a fairly big decision to go back to Aspen
45:59and do another course for a year Georgie's mom is in full support and is pulling out all the stops to
46:06help finance the course by selling the house I think it's a little bit scary sort of thing quite
46:12daunting that you sort of at a crossroads really as to sort of where you're going to go for the for
46:17the future but the most important things is that Georgie's sorted out and she's in the right direction now
46:23so we're on the right road it's just to see where the future takes us
46:36and what became of the most difficult brat of all
46:43after three and a half months in Utah Lucy is finally ready to graduate ready to go meet him
46:50she seems to be a reformed character it was a change that had to happen and it's weird but I'm kind
47:08of grateful that I've got sorted out and that and I can have a good life now and so yeah I don't hate
47:16them anymore I've always been proud of Lucy even when she's been an absolute horror I've always been
47:26proud of Lucy since returning home Lucy's anger seems a thing of the past she's back at school and says
47:41she's torn between a career with the Navy or the police force
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