Why don't you go get a wash? You're all criminals.
Get your dirty bags off the bus. BOTH: Crackhead!
Crackhead. Love it.
Are you a crackhead, my darling?
Er... No.
It's always a passing comment.
You never get to reply to the crackhead answer.
They don't stand there and go "crackhead"
and then wait for your reply back.
Labelling someone as a crackhead
is just your way of closing off that person's pain.
There is no help out there
for anyone that is drinking or doing drugs.
In the words of Whitney... The words of... .."crack is wack." Yeah.
Pretends not to see you.
'Scuse me.
Hello.
That is the one that just makes you feel like you don't exist.
I've gone five, six days in the past
and no-one's approached me, no-one's come and said hello.
So lonely.
It takes nothing just to make eye contact with someone and say hello.
We don't even know what time it is.
Wouldn't it be so good to know what day or what time it is?
They don't want to care.
They don't want to know. The thing is...
It's easier for them to look at you and judge you
rather than it is to learn about who you are.
It only takes one person to come over and say, "How are you?"
or, "What's your name?"
How are you? How are you doing? Are you all right?
I will always sit and talk, actually for hours.
They want to leave!
I mean, that's what I was like.
Life history.
"Right, I've got to get out of here."
At least you're not on the street.
You don't have to be on the street to be homeless.
Homeless is sofa surfing, overcrowding, being evicted.
We still have the same anxiety about it.
You have no permanent residence.
I haven't got a permanent residence at the moment.
Even living in a shelter, living in a hostel, it's still homeless.
I was living with people who were like, you know, addicted to drugs,
and the police were having to be called.
Grown men will open the door, then walk in. Yeah.
You didn't know who they were.
I was sofa surfing for months and months.
The problem is you're sleeping on someone else's couch,
so you end up falling out. How many friends have you...?
Yeah, when you're under people's feet and it just gets too much.
I was sofa surfing once,
and I remember I got told off for going to the toilet. Yeah.
And I felt so scared.
I was laying on his sofa thinking, "I need to go to the toilet."
You have no support, but at least you're not on the streets!
Didn't you go to school?
Did you go to school?
The majority of people that are homeless have went to school.
You know? It just means some part of their life just went that way.
Let me tell you something as well on top of that.
Can you imagine going to school while being homeless? Amen.
Thank you. Do you know what I mean?
Can you imagine having to think about food,
think about clothing, think about warmth?
Tell one of the guys, yeah, "Listen, something's gone wrong at home,
"I'm homeless."
Come the next day in school, "Trey's homeless, blah blah blah."
You know what I'm trying to say?
Most of us are going to school, or in education or in employment.
We just haven't got a shelter.
I went to school. I went to a private school.
Both my parents are doctors. I went to private school as well.
Did you?!
I don't think I've ever met somebody on the streets
who isn't qualified to do a job. You're right, yeah.
I was reading a book once when I was out on the streets
and someone was shocked that I could read.
Get a job.
How am I going to get paid, baby?
I ain't got a bank account cos I ain't got a home.
How am I going to get my letters? I can't, cos I ain't got a home.
I've genuinely tried to get a job.
I've approached many places with a CV that I've made myself
in the library and they said
"No, you're not in supported accommodation, in any accommodation at all, we can't help you."
If someone came up to me and said, "Get a job,"
I'd be, like, "Great, when do I start?
"Where's this job? When's it happening? Where am I going?"
So, what happened?
So, what's this, story time?
I just woke up one morning and just thought,
"Hey, do you know what - I just want to go and live on the street!"
Some people can't explain it.
Some people don't want to explain it.
They don't need a sob story. This ain't X factor.
This ain't one of them moments where you need me to cry for you
and get down on my knees and beg. No, B!
It's just that there's so many different things, you just
can't cover it all at once, you have to sit there for about an hour.
If you go up there asking judgmental questions, then don't do it.
Yeah, yeah.
But if you're going up with a genuine care and concern
for another human life, then do it.
Just stay with your family!
Oh, my God. Thank you for this information.
I did not think to stay at home.
I had family problems.
So for me it was, like, I don't want to be at home. Exactly.
Guess what?
I can't stay at home. Oh, why?
Because being homeless is better
than being in the prison that trapped my spirit, OK?
Baby, baby, preach.
If I wanted to be at home, don't you think I'd be at home?
You're all criminals.
Aren't we all, a little bit?
I have stolen for food, I've stolen for drink.
If you've not eaten, doesn't matter who you are,
what background you're from, you will go out shoplifting.
As homeless people, yes, they do have to do certain things...
BOTH: To survive!
And the amount of criminal organisations
that are in shelters now that pull vulnerable people out
to make them go work for what they want to do.
All these old, rich businessmen would come up to me
and try and sort of proposition me,
like, you know, there's ways in which he could help me out.
Isn't that disgusting?
Yeah, it's disgusting they didn't proposition me
cos I'd be, "Yeah, I'm doing it! I'm off, then!"
That could never happen to me.
Is there a way to get homeless?
Is there a route onto homelessness that they see?
It could be family problems...
Relation breakup. Financial problems, going bankrupt.
You see it all the time.
You can be up here and, all of a sudden, just drop here.
I cannot describe how quickly, and it shocked the hell out of me.
I used to have 40-odd grand in the bank.
I had a couple of horses, a couple of dogs, I had land,
I had a nice house in the middle of the countryside.
Literally, one day we were sleeping in a five-star hotel,
the next day I was homeless.
In fact, from 12 noon. Check-out.
Part of me is still slightly damaged from it.
But as I said, it's a learning curve and no-one will ever just get back
to normal like that. It will take years.
I think it's a good thing to go through in a way,
cos you are grateful for everything you have.
I choose to see the abundance and the richness of my life
and I chose to see that when I had nothing.
When you've been that low and
as low as you think you can possibly get, you can only get higher.
It's like a superpower. You become resilient.
Nothing can faze you.
Nothing's going to stop you after that.
Begging is such a big thing.
Imagine begging your parents for money.
It's still a massive thing.
So imagine us now going to the public and begging.
It's worse, do you know what I mean?
So don't judge. It's just unnecessary, please.
If you have to, beg your way to the top!
OK! Fake it till you make it!