Кадр выше наш. Полное медиа с Facebook запрошено — подставим его сюда, как только приедет.
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I shouldn't be writing this. But I can't keep it in any longer. Before you carry on — just so you understand properly: I'm not the type who puts their life on display. Never have been. I'm the type who stays quiet. Grits her teeth. Smiles when she wants to scream. Twenty-three years I've managed on my own. No complaints. No posts. No "feel sorry for me". But three people I told this to in person — when I literally couldn't breathe anymore — all said the same thing: "Melodie, write it down. Other girls think they're alone in this kind of shit. They're not." So here it is. One time. No dressing it up. Who I am. My name's Melodie Tremblay. I'm 23. Grew up in the north of England, in a town you wouldn't even bother looking for on a map. I live in Brighton now. But between "then" and "now" there was London. And there was a man who broke me so badly I'm still putting myself back together piece by piece. Mum. Old spinal injury. NHS just give her painkillers — take them and get on with it. The operation she needs costs eight thousand quid. Private. We never had that kind of money in our family. I went to London with one thought: I'll earn it. I'll help her. I'll save her. London didn't even notice me. A bar in Shoreditch. "The Broken Whistle". Twelve hours on my feet. Sticky floors. The boss fines you for every broken glass. Drunk blokes grabbing my arse, my waist. I dodge. I smile. I keep quiet. Room in East Ham. Six hundred quid a month. Mould in the corner. Window facing a brick wall — arm's length away. Never any sunlight. Every month I send Mum a hundred quid. I scrape it from food, from travel, from everything. She never asks. But I hear her voice on the phone — tired, broken. And I send it again. On paper I'm surviving. In reality — zero by the end of the month. Waiting for payday like it's a bloody miracle. And something always happens. Trainers split. Tooth starts hurting. Phone plays up. You think: it'll get better. It doesn't. That's how a year we
