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And today's guest we've got Charlotte Siemens.

Charlotte, how are we?

I'm good, thank you.

Yeah, really well, thank you.

You've lived a mad life. Crack addiction, heroin addiction, suicide. You've slept outside homeless. You've ate from bins. You've done prostitution. You've done mad stuff. But the beautiful thing is you're coming up for one year clean, which is an amazing thing. I'm proud of you. Amazing thing to see. I've seen your social media and I thought, yep, great story. I need to get her on to tell her story because hopefully others can learn from it and you should be proud of how far you've come. But how are you?

I'm good. Thank you. Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, it sounds mad when you say it like, like that. Sometimes I think about my life, I think back and I think fucking hell, was that really me? Yeah, and it was, yeah. Yeah, but you're doing what you can now

to make it better, so good on you. Before we get into all the madness, though, I always like to go back

to the start of my guests, get more a bit of understanding about about you, Charlotte, where you grown, how it all began.

Mm-hmm.

So, I come from a really normal home, actually.

My mom and dad, still together to this day, two sisters and a brother.

I think the only bit of trauma when I was a kid, my granddad hung himself the day before,

my fourth birthday, but we didn't know about it. Obviously, we were kids. But when I've had like

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