05/10/2024
Laura May will be joining me from America on Sunday 6 October at 10pm (BST)...here is her introduction.
My name is Laura May and I have 3 beautiful kids with my husband Roy. We've been married 10 years on 27th September 2024, and life is pretty amazing to say the least.
So why am I here? Well I’ve been though trauma, and I'm now ready to share my story.
I didn’t know my dad for 10 years of my life but when he came in to my life I only got to spend a couple of years with him before he passed I struggled to find a father figure in my life my next door neighbor used to look after me before I went to school as I used to have to get a taxi as I was in a naughty school as they call it while he looked after me he take me out on trips to McDonald’s the pleasure beach the beach, but I know he was be friending me and made me do things I didn’t want to do and I was told if I told anyone and I stoped going round I would lose all my family and friends.
He was a well known man and no one would believe me that went on for a long time I never did feel as tho I got my justice because he only served 2 1/2 years sentence to five years I struggled with my mental health, attempted su***de and self harm multiple times and for multiple years after till the day I turned 16 I met my current husband Roy.
I still struggled. with my mental health attempted su***de and self harm, but he tried to comfort me, but it was all in my head. What happened? We proceeded to have free, beautiful children and tried to live life. I had to put what would happen in the back of my mind and it would creep up on me every so often we then got married in 2014 and tried to get on with our lives my husband went to university and got his first honors degree and proceeded to get a job at Bentley motors so we relocated to crew to my mental health after two years past I couldn’t cope and I needed to be at home back in Blackpool.
We bought our very own first home into 2021 where we had our last child who is now too little the did I know me living back in Blackpool would hurt me the way it did when I bumped in to my abuser at the petrol station. I froze and looked at him and just ran. I didn’t even pay for my petrol. I went back, explained what happened and paid for my petrol, the woman behind the till said she could see the fear on my face. She knew something was wrong. And asked if I was OK. Later on in the year Roy, my husband got the best opportunity. Our family could wish for which was to relocate to the USA South Carolina since living here with lived here since June 17 I have never felt free. I’m not afraid to bump into anybody, I don’t want to, I don’t have the fair of mental health my mind my body feels like it is it has escaped the Darkside. I know the Darkside is still there in the back of my mind and I am mindful it could reappear at any point but for now I’m a survivor. I’m free and I’m laura.
