The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.
I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.
I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.
For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.
It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.
Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.
It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.
I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.
I like to stretch my acting muscles.
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.
I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
