its founder, camila batmanghelidjh, seemed to disappear from public life.ar, she was back. two years on, her anger and defiance that she had anything to do with the charity folding was very evident. have a look. there wasn't financial mismanagement of kids company — let's be very clear about that. when kids company closed in august 2015, we had a year's money ahead, three months‘ reserves. what shut the doors of kids company was false sexual abuse allegations being taken to newsnight, broadcast, and then the police subsequently found that no crime had been committed. we were cleared, but by then, it was too late because the funders who had pledged the money withdrew their grants, and because of that, the trustees had to close it. you couldn't pay your staff. i mean, you were in financial trouble. no, we couldn't pay our staff... it's very important that when we have this conversation, that you ask me questions — because there are so many inaccurate pieces of information... but it's true that you couldn't pay your staff. the reason we couldn't pay our staff.