- [Invisible People] Anastasia.
- Yes.
- [Invisible People] We're down here in Los Angeles,
downtown Los Angeles.
You're homeless.
Tell me about it.
- Tell me about it?
Other than the fact that at the moment
because it's so hot it's hell.
Honestly, we get stuck,
Well, I was,
I've been on and off the streets.
My fiance, he's been on the streets for about 10 years.
But I've gone home occasionally,
and it's really hard,
cuz my mum can't really afford it.
So I was helping her a lot,
and it was just getting too much.
So, I ended up back here again.
I've been back out with him for about
a month now, almost two months.
I don't do any drugs or anything.
I used to.
When I was out here the first time,
when I was 18.
I'm 22 now,
I mean, I've known him for like four years.
So back then I was using heroin, so that was really bad.
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I don't anymore.
I've been clean for awhile.
I still have the scars, but
other than that.
- [Invisible People] Good for you.
- He drinks too much, that's about it.
He's an alcoholic,
but that's just normally what happens out here anyway,
but, I mean, he's been cutting back.
In the last week
he's gone from having a whole fucking gallon
to only a fifth,
which is new.
He has seizures and he can go through delirium tremors
and stuff like that.
He's been throwing up every morning, because he's-
- [Invisible People] Where'd you guys sleep last night?
- We sleep up behind, up on Bunker Hill,
near the library.
Not the library area, but one up higher.
It's safer up there.
And usually there-
- [Invisible People] So, why downtown?
There's so many places.
Why downtown?
- Well, because I can spange down here for starters.
We have to go to the methadone clinic for him.
We ended up in MacArthur Park most of the day
and I hate it down there.
I'd rather be downtown because it just seems safer,
there's always people around, you know?
- [Invisible People] So you're stuck close to,
you wanna stay close to the clinic?
- No, if we wanted to do that we'd-
- [Fiance] That and away from dope.
- (laughs) He just woke up.
He's asking about our story of why we're out here.
- [Fiance] I'm sick and tired of heroin,
and sick and tired of dope.
- So basically he's sick and tired of everything.
We kind of, honestly, if we can get enough money
we wanna move away from LA in general.
- [Fiance] Yeah, we wanna leave this fuckin' hole.
- (laughs) Oh yeah.
I dunno.
There's not really anything to say much about being homeless
other than it really sucks.
But it's nice when people are nice about it.
- [Fiance] It's harder to get it together.
- If people are dicks about it they'll be like,
"Go and get a job."
I'll be like, "Do you wanna give me a job then?
"Please, I will honestly take it right now.
"Do you wanna get me cleaned up?
"Maybe then I can."
I mean, the shelters and everything down there,
you go down there
and it's like you're surrounded by people
trying to give you drugs and stuff.
I don't wanna be anywhere near that.
- [Fiance] Yeah, me too.
We're done with that shit.
- [Invisible People] Trying to stay sober.
It's hard to stay sober out here.
- It is.
There are times when I'm like,
"I could just go down there."
But it's like, what is the point?
I'll be throwing up.
And when I did detox I was using Subutex
and that took like a month,
which was horrific.
- [Invisible People] Well you're stayin' happy.
- I'm trying.
Sometimes it's not so easy.
I honestly smile more when I'm nervous,
so it's the camera I think.
- [Invisible People] If you had three wishes,
what would they be?
- Three wishes?
First wish, yeah, that we could get a place.
I'm not even looking for a big,
I don't want a mansion.
I would be happy with a studio.
The second wish,
that he could get off everything he needed to,
like he wouldn't ever have a drug again.
And the third wish,
I think that I could get to a point
where I could help other people on the streets.
That's all I really wanna do.
- [Invisible People] Well thank you very much for talking.
- My pleasure. (laughs)