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shaun ley speaks to nspcc ambassador david tait on hardtalk. hello and welcome to hardtalk. i am shaun ley. from the outside, my guest today appeared to have a near perfect life. all the trappings of a successful and highly lucrative career in the city of london. a wife and a young family at home. but on the inside, he was in turmoil. david tait suffered sexual abuse as a child that had catastrophic consequences into his adult life. after a breakdown that nearly cost him everything, including his life, he has dedicated himself to increasing the awareness of abuse against children and he's climbed everest five times to raise millions of pounds for charity. he says there are many children who know only too well that monsters truly do exist. now a raw and unflinching movie has been made about his life, has david tait found a way to deal with the pain of the past?

david tait, thank you for coming in and talking to us on hardtalk. "because i was one of those children," those are the words that you wrote to colleagues at the end of a charity fundraising e—mail, and there are certainly a lot of grown—ups who were abused of children. globally, i think the estimate is about one in five women, one in 13 men. why did you want to tell your story? it was largely, i have to it that i realised that to say, accidental. i was looking around for a new vehicle to raise money for a charity. ijumped out of planes, i tried to race cars. i largely crash them.

in 2003, i was sitting at my desk and i looked up on the screen above me at the chinese summit everest on the 50th anniversary. it looked so majestic and beautiful that i thought i would do that. so i showed up in 2005, climbed it, luckily, and by surprise raised over £250,000. more or less ten times then i expected. so i went back in 2007, completely and utterly inspired that i had found this amazing vehicle, and because i had raised so much money, i felt that this was a turning point for me. my self—esteem bucket inside me, as i called it, somebody had put their finger in my self—esteem bucket and i suddenly felt wonderful. so i carried that through into 2007, i deemed to do the world's first double traverse up, down and turn around and have a cup of tea and come back over, and just before it, on impulse i wrote now one of my infamous begging e—mails, i wrote those prophetic words. and i wrote them once and i erased it and wrote them twice and long story short,

eventually i hit the send button and ran from the office, but the world did not change. i thought it was going to. so it was this following wind of awesomeness i felt, and the amount of money i was raising that made mejust press the trigger on it. you're still relatively unusual though disclosing in this way. how difficult has the decision been to speak out? the charity, soon after the 2007 climb, when i got back i had a few months off because i was pretty broken bodily, and on impulse, following on from those prophetic words, i decided to try and write down what happened and i wrote six or seven chapters. soon after, this book — failed book i have to add, failed book, i have to add, very failed book — it took shape. the charity by chance asked me if i would talk about my experiences. so i ended up standing for the very first speech of my entire life

at the british museum alongside an unsuspecting michael paidlin. and suddenly, my legs shaking violently, i almost ran. i was that close. i came out with the speech and i never have changed since. so it was really a decision, a brutal decision, in those few moments, those months leading up