Hi Georgia. Thanks for joining us. How are you? Hi, not too bad. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

It's entirely our pleasure. I'm really looking forward to speak to you've got quite a very unusual story, a very of an adjusting experience to share for us involving you and your mother. It's something you've spoke about quite extensively, you do a lot of activism and a lot of good on the back of your experience but for those in the audience who may not be familiar with your story

maybe you can just go through go through it again with us and whatever you're comfortable with

letting us know what happened. Yeah I mean of, I'm happy to go into any detail.

This is something I do regularly, and yeah, there's no question that I can be asked that I haven't been asked before.

What's your favorite cheese? Gotta be Camembert,

love a bit of Camembert, see. Wonderful choice. I'm on the ball here.

Yeah, so I grew up unfortunately in a household with domestic abuse and at the age of 14 I

witnessed the domestic homicide of my mother that was perpetrated by my

stepfather and so that's kind of the overview of what I experienced really and

yeah you know it was something that I experienced it as a child. My mom was divorced from my father when I was two. She met a partner after that he was also, he was quite physically abusive, mostly towards me.

Growing up and that was, it was quite an intense period of time.

After my mom left him, we had a period of time. After my mom left him we had a period of time on a row, and then when I was around seven,

my mom met my stepdad.

He was a farmer, very well known in our town, which is a very small farming community.

And, you know, everyone sort of knows everybody.

Yeah, very well known well respected man for many reasons. He's a farmer, had his own farm. And yeah, charming, pleasant, you know, you couldn't you wouldn't really look at him in any other way and sort of he was almost the perfect man, but realistically he wasn't he was he was incredibly charming when they met and he would take me around the farm he'd take my mom out he'd do things

You know putting a lot of effort as you normally do at the start of a relationship anyway.

But unfortunately this was a very much a sort of mask for what he really was like and slowly but surely he began

drip feeding a lot of coercive control into the relationship.

Their relationship was never, he was never physically violent, particularly.

He was a big guy, he was, you know, six foot farmer, strong, ex you know he was well built man and my mom was only you know five foot five very small

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