so i felt safer to hear the report read to me on stage by an actor called julie hesmondhalgh, here inably the truth. what was it like listening to it? it was quite disturbing, and it... but it was quite liberating as well, because there were 350 people, 400 people at the royal court theatre in west london, there just to support me. just to be with me, just to hold me in mind. it was like being hugged by a nation. it was a beautiful event, and i'm proud to have done it. i've not looked at the report since then. haven't you? no, i haven't, and i won't. you've talked about how any society can be judged by the way it deals with the children who do not have their own families, who are institutionalised, cared for by the state. you said in 2012, "you can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats this kind of child. i don't mean children, i mean the child of the state." yeah. if you're in care, the government is legally your parent, so... and what does it say about the britain that you have grown up in, your treatment, what happened to you? what does it say? and, you know