Alex Scott: I’ve Never Told The FULL Truth About My Past

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Alex Scott is a television personality and former professional football player. With 140 England caps, she’s one of the best players this country has ever produced. But there’s another side to Alex that she’s kept secret up to now. Because Alex’s early life was not one of safety or security. She’s bravely decided to speak up about the trauma of her abusive father, and how that has shaped her mentality to this day. It’s never easy to admit something like this, and Alex Scott’s honesty in this conversation is courageous. It’s the same courageousness Alex has shown every day of her life, to achieve incredible things, no matter where she’s from, or what she’s overcome. Follow Alex: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/alexscott2/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/alexscott Alex's book: https://amzn.to/3dPryIj Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm in a room listening to everything go on and just hoping she's a life.
0:05.0	That was the hardest night at that point.
0:08.0	Alex scores.
0:10.0	140 caps, 3 World Cups, four European Championships and 12 international goals, Alex Scott.
0:17.0	Football was allowing me that platform to see things, learn things about the world that I know was making me even more hungry and to keep that I
0:25.9	needed to keep doing my little football.
0:28.3	You couldn't speak growing up because of a speech impediment.
0:31.4	How did that impact your life?
0:34.1	There's certain things I just can't say.
0:36.6	But it's almost I found a habit of just laughing at myself
0:39.3	before everyone else laughs at me.
0:41.8	Here I am getting nothing but pure hate.
0:45.0	Deaf threats and abuse.
0:48.0	And I would say, I'm not all I can and all those darkness and the demons will go.
1:07.0	Did that work?
1:11.0	I've done this book to free my mom on the other hand I'm scared that it could ruin my dad's life.
1:21.0	Without further ado I'm Stephen Butler and this is the diary of a CEO. I hope nobody's listening, but if you are, then please keep this yourself. Alex, we sit here in East London today and your story starts in East London as well.
1:44.0	Take me right back to East London when you grew up in some,
1:49.0	when was that 1980 something?
1:52.0	84? 84. Yeah yeah take me back well instantly even when you say
1:57.6	East London I'm smiling because I have so many happy memories and the feeling that it gave me a sense of community,
2:06.0	everyone looking after you, even though it's surrounded by struggle and hardship,
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