Do you know?
I've had this drug problem 12, 13 year,
picking's something I've never done.
It looks absolutely horrendous.
Look what I've done to myself.
You want some business, darling?
She's my younger sister and she works down the red light district.
I won't let her go on her own.
My new boyfriend's been looking after me
cos he doesn't like me working,
which...has been all right. Been kush.
Do you think my eyes look sore?
They do, don't they?
Don't you think?
I feel like, you know,
like, they're puffed out.
I feel like... You know, like, proper puffy.
Obviously, my looks have...
gone downhill and these pick marks I've picked,
it's obviously affecting my work, badly.
The last few times I've been down...
..it's fucking took me ages, you know, to get picked up.
Like, other day, I was stood there an hour before I got picked up.
And before, like, this time six week ago,
I'd have been on me way home with 100 quid.
Me forehead is sore as hell.
At least I've got me fringe to cover it with, I suppose.
But it's like, those ones that I pick round my mouth, I suppose,
like I say, when I'm down at work,
that'll then put people off picking me up, innit?
So, I'm glad them ones have gone from around me mouth.
Sometimes, like I say, like, I looked in the mirror last night.
I'd taken a lot of drugs and been picking at my face, and that,
and I looked fucking disgusting.
And...then, like,
I just got out t'bath and put a bit of makeup on and done my hair
and, yeah, I feel a lot better.
Yeah, makeup works wonders, doesn't it?
Asbo, come here.
Come here.
He loves me to pieces.
Goes to bed with me as like my teddy bear, man.
Give me a kiss. Oi, Asbo! Give me a kiss.
Good boy.
Clean your bum-bum.
Be good.
I'm just nipping down to Holbeck, innit,
to see if I can get a quick graft.
Do you know what it is? It's ruined. The beat's ruined.
There's too many girls doing it cheap and obviously,
because it's become more legal as well, yeah,
obviously people have got more right to drive about down there.
INTERVIEWER: Punters, you mean?
Yeah. There's more punters about, but there's
more young kids and that about,
do you know what I mean?
Just causing havoc.
They'll pull over and they'll be like, ask you how much and that,
do you know what I mean? You'll tell them the prices and then they'll go,
"We can get it round there for a tenner."
Well, go round there and get it for a tenner then,
go get yourself dosed up.
Do you know what I mean?
There's one girl in particular, yeah, she undercuts everybody
and I mean proper undercuts them.
She's more than willing to sit there and suck someone's dick and lay on
her back for a tenner,
and let them shag her up t'arse, as well...
..without a Johnny.
Surely to God she can't be that desperate for drugs.
I don't like being down there.
It's not me.
INDISTINCT
It's shit, but...
It's survival, at the end of the day.
Right. Don't think I've done bad.
That's me headband. Right, mascara, need to take with me.
Just get you done.
No! You're not going to believe what I've just done.
Got a bit of lipstick on my top.
That's how nervous I am, look.
Scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub!
Not moving with the scrubbing.
Oh, my God, why did it have to be red?!
I haven't been to court for a long time
and I promised I'd never ever go to court again.
I said, if I ever did go to prison, it'd be something really bad, like murder.
Can I light this cig? I'm nervous now. Are you sure I look all right?
I look, not slaggish, but I look sophisticated,
but I looked dressed up.
Is that OK? Yeah, you look... Do I, do I look like that, yeah?
Cos I don't want to look like a prostitute
going for a prostitution thing, do you know what I mean?
In my eyes, I shouldn't have been arrested, I were already walking.
It'd have been different had I been stood there literally working,
but I wasn't. I'd got my money and everything.
I were going, I were gone.
And, yeah, I did have a Durex on me,
so when she's going, "Oh, well, look, you've got Durex."
Obviously. I'm a clean person,
I use condoms.
And I had been to work,
I had been working up until this time, obviously.
If I'd have been 20 minutes or something
and I'd got nicked for it, fair dos.
One minute? One minute past?
That is not out of hours.
At one minute past,
there's girls that could be
waiting for a taxi to get home.
I did swear at her and I did shout
at her. I said, "Will you fuck off
"out my face? I'm not working."
I could get a fine, or I could get a
fine and community service.
I could get a fine,
community service, probation.
I don't see it as a big thing to do
because she's helped me out in a lot
of ways, as well.
We are tight. We're close.
I've always been there for her and that is...
for the best, to help her and do them things for her.
It is for us both, as well.
It's not just for her, it's for us both.
I'm not going to stop working
and making sure that we've got food in our belly,
and gas and electric and stuff, no way.
KNOCK AT DOOR
Who's that? I... I don't know.
I don't know if it...might be the police or not.
Can you call back, please?
THEY MUTTER
Go. Thank you.
He'll come down here at silly o'clock in the morning,
like three or four, and braying out my door.
Like, literally...
SHE BANGS THE DOOR
Booting me door, like, loud.
Bang, bang, bang, on the letterbox.
Boom, boom, boom, like police.
That's who I thought... I thought it were police taking my door off at
four, three, four this morning!
I'm sorry, I don't need all that.
Can I take t'key and go to t'shop, and then I can...?
No, can you ask, you know, not for him not to come to my house, knocking on t'door,
braying on t'door at silly o'clock for you again, please?
Yeah.
You can show him the notice I've just received
of complaints of anti-social behaviour!
Hello?! Yeah.
Er, yeah, no, but I want it back because I need it, but...
Can you shh?! Just, let me just speak?
No, I want you...
Right, but do I get to state my point?
Take that and show him that, you know,
because of him coming to my house at three and four in the morning,
looking for you, booting me door like the police and
trying to, I don't know, God knows, take me door off.
Show him that anti-social behaviour...
You know, people in t'street are complaining.
I've never had no complaints in eight month, nine month I've lived here.
I aren't going to start having them now.
So make sure you state that clear to him, yeah?
Here you go.
Take the key.
Corrin'd have probably, maybe,
just smoothed it over and not said
anything to him, you know, to keep
the peace, but obviously I want him
to know, it's my house, I live here.
I keep myself to myself.
I don't bother with anyone in t'street.
I say hi and bye, and that's all.
CORINN MUTTERS
All right. That's enough.
Just... That goes on all the time, innit?
Did you show him the letter?
What did he say to...?
Well, he went on like it's not even owt to do with him.
He's just still denying, denying.
And the anti-social behaviour is not because of me, is it?
No, cos we don't carry on outside t'house.
And nobody... No-one comes here...
Thank you. ..apart from him.
Right, so it is down to him, the anti-social... Yeah.
Right. OK. I've just told him that and he's just going on like it
isn't, but it is. OK, right.
And I know it is. No, but it's nobody else that's going to get evicted, it's me.
I know it is. I know, love.
I don't need it.
That's what I'm saying. I don't need that shit right now.
When I go off to t'shops, I'm going to...
I'm just going to spend 20 quid on drugs.
I've got a fiver in me bag,
so they'll give me 25 quid, and then...
I fucking put me Freeview box in t'cash jerrys, didn't I?
So, we were proper rattling.
I only got a fiver for it, but I had a fiver,
so I'm going to get that back out.
That's like eight quid.
And then I'm going to get some cheap foundation.
I love shopping and stopping in a coffee shop and having a coffee, and...
Yeah, I used to do stuff like that all t'time. But...
I've got no friends.
You know, I don't...
I haven't got no friends, it's like...
Obviously, I know people to say hi to and shit like that,
associates, but they're not friends.
It's not someone who would, like,
go into town with you,
you know, shopping and have a coffee, or...
..owt like that.
Well, I miss it.
I fucking hate going in there.
I hate it. Well, it's embarrassing, for starters.
I've just got my Freeview box back out, that I put in, like I did
t'other day. But I've got that out,
and I got, just a cheap-ass phone for 7.99,
which just happened to be on my network.
Get some work back now on t'phone
and it's two things I needed to do, done...
..which is good, for me.
You know, I've done well now.
You know, I could have gone and blown all my money on drugs,
but I haven't.
So, I'm proud of myself for doing that.
It's like what might seem little to someone else is big to me...
so, that, for me, is like proper good.
I've been given a fine of £150 today.
VOICEOVER: I don't need it, and not when it's meant to be legal and that.
You're just going out just to make your money to survive.
That's how I feel. I don't claim, I don't do anything else.
So I'm not doing something...
wrong. Do you know what I mean?
I pay for me room, I pay for everything,
do you know what I mean? Myself.
Me own clothes, me own food,
everything. No government gives me anything.
I don't claim a penny.
And then, do you know what I mean?
You're up at court for things like this.
It's just...no help.
And then, obviously, I'm going to get a big whopping fine
that, even if I did want to stop it,
I can't because I'm not getting no money from anywhere else.
How the hell do they expect me to pay the fine?
You tell me.
What, click my fingers and it fall out of t'sky?
No, so obviously I've got to do it again.
And now I'm going to have to do it even more so
because then I've got a fine to pay,
as well as survive, and pay me rent and feed meself.
At least when it was illegal you knew it were illegal,
so you knew to watch out for the police.
Now it's legal, you're kind of not.
You see them and you're thinking, "Oh, yeah, you're OK."
Everything that they're doing,
it's like they're pushing the girls over the edge.
It's like they give enough rope for us to hang ourselves,
that's how it feels to me.