00:00I think it started with small comments like saying that I smelt someone had been over to my house and
00:05they said that our family smelt or something about my nan.
00:09Nobody would have known that I had any insecurities or anything. I just like fronted everything out. I always looked
00:14like the happiest person in the room.
00:16It was never, like, I don't think school is one of the easy things. I think it teaches you life
00:21experiences.
00:21There are so many different levels of being bullied, whether it's physical, whether it's cyber, whether it's words, whether it's
00:29no words.
00:30It can be stuff said behind my back or literally just looks when you're walking down a hallway.
00:37They took the mick out of what I was wearing when I was on the diving board.
00:42They would throw stuff at me at lunchtime and it was just this, it became this thing where diving almost
00:48became a burden rather than it being something that I was proud of and enjoyed.
00:52As human beings, we have a gut feeling about something and if you feel that something isn't right in any
00:58form, you should find somebody that you can speak to that you trust.
01:03And I think that's a really good piece of advice to give you because I think a lot of what
01:09I did as a child was keep it all in and then it manifests and gets much bigger.
01:13We were doing a thing for gymnastics and one of them purposely pushed me into a brick wall and I
01:20scraped my face.
01:21I wish being popular hadn't been the most important thing to me. I wish I'd learnt more.
01:27I did what I felt everyone wanted me to do and I wish I'd been more authentic looking back.
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