"I'm not afraid to be happy. I think it's important to find joy in life."

"I hope that I can be a good example to others."

"I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a council estate, and feel that I am needed."

"I was like a lamb to the slaughter, and I didn't know it."

"I was unwell with post-natal depression, which no one ever discusses, post-natal depression, you have to read about it afterwards, and that in itself was a bit of a difficult time. You'd wake up in th…"