VIDEO – EVERYONE CAN CHANGE –

Jan. 20, 2024 – “It’s really hard to believe, looking back at the old Emma, to who I am now. I would never have imagined I would do modelling.” Who Emma is now is a long way away from the meth addict she was for more than five years, she says.

“At my worst, I had nothing. I had lost my family through my addiction, I was spending time with people who, while now I understand they weren’t my friends or ever were, at the time they were all I had. I was in abusive relationships constantly – not just once, but three times. I didn’t feel I had any worth. I would end up with men who were violent because I didn’t believe I deserved better. Looking back actually, a lot of my problems, my addiction, it came from men. Men and bad choices. I was in a terrible place by the worst part of my addiction and I didn’t see it changing.”

Emma had always loved spending time with both her children, and was a good mum when her mental health was stable, she says.

Once she started on “the meth path” however, while her love for her kids never changed, her access to them was limited because of her addiction, something she says added to her feelings of worthlessness.

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