How Strictly star used devastating health diagnosis as a ‘superpower’ to help others

Nikita Kuzmin’s message for anyone diagnosed with Type 1 diabetesCredit: The Independent

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00:00You know when I got diabetes what helped me because I like I've got in the middle of the

00:05night and I thought my dance career was over and I woke up the next morning in the hospital in

00:12Ukraine and I remember walking out of my room and seeing on the right side of the of the wall

00:22every single successful person that has diabetes and has actually made and there are presidents

00:27there are Olympians, Paralympians there is every sort and kind of thing that you might want to

00:35achieve and to me that is what helped me to actually okay cool if they can do it then I can

00:39do it as well and I think in a very very very small way this is what I'm trying to do for as well for

00:46the for my future generation at least here in the UK so yeah you can always do it I always say

00:53diabetes is our superpower that's number one thing it teaches us how to be resilient how to be

00:59aware of our body aware of what's going to come next planning everything all of that from a very

01:05young age so yeah always proud to be type one so there you go

01:09so yeah

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