Rule Britannia (2020)

Kieran Williams: Self

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• Kieran Williams : My name's Kieran Williams. I'm 29 years old. I'm from South London. I grew up in Brixton. Currently residing in Kennington, which is where my mum lives. I'm one of five, the eldest of my mum's children. I was in care for most of my childhood. I was in non-contested care and I've got four other siblings that were all adopted on my mum's side and my dad's got many children.

  Kieran Williams : Yeah, I grew up in South London from about the age of, you know, probably about four, I'd say about from four years old I was out and about, you know, so very quickly I was around older children, I learned about, you know the street life and my parents were heavily influenced at the time in drugs, they were selling drugs, my dad was selling drugs, my mum was taking drugs and my dad was taking and smoking weed. And so I learned about all of those things very quickly.

  Kieran Williams : I've been through some traumatic past. I had this sort of abusive situation going on when I was a child, not directly but there was basically a sex offender who was around the house, who was like a lodger, in my grandma's house. That affected me from early, I had to watch my cousin, a female suffer some abuse and then luckily I stood up to him and kind of got wrapped up in the end but yeah, towards the end of that I sort of grew out of that and then like I said I went into foster care, I was the last.

  Kieran Williams : You know, when you've got nobody around you, like I said, I'd come out of care at this point, you... there's a sense of accountability that's not... it's not the, you know, you should have done this and you should have done that; it's having someone to talk to and somebody to sort of like explain you know when you go through things that are hard, or whatever. It's that part of life when I think... when a person misses that or doesn't have somebody to fill that gap in. That energy can fester and it can... it can manifest in all types of things for people, you know, in their life, like arguments, you know, all kind of bad things that people don't really want to be dealing with.