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I was an abused kid.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.