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0:00:09 > 0:00:13PHONE RINGS
0:00:38 > 0:00:42I just remember thinking, "Oh, my gosh, like, I've lost my face.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46"My skin is burnt and my eyes, like, I can't see."
0:00:46 > 0:00:50Naomi Oni says that when she saw her injured face for the first time, she
0:00:50 > 0:00:55- didn't want to live.- A happy and confident young woman permanently
0:00:55 > 0:00:59disfigured in a deliberate, wicked and devastating act.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04I was 20 years old when I was attacked
0:01:04 > 0:01:08and you don't know anything at 20 years old.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11You're so naive.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15Like, you wouldn't think someone can do the worst to you.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20My story is one of betrayal and loss,
0:01:20 > 0:01:23and it's only now, five years on,
0:01:23 > 0:01:24that I'm ready to talk about it.
0:01:41 > 0:01:46Since my attack, I've had to do this journey to the hospital a lot.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48I have laser treatments three times a year
0:01:48 > 0:01:50and then I have to see my surgeon as well.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56- ANNOUNCEMENT:- We are now approaching Stratford.
0:01:56 > 0:02:00It is very weird, especially passing Stratford to get to the hospital.
0:02:00 > 0:02:01Like, it's just like, "Wow.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03"I used to work here."
0:02:04 > 0:02:08Someone was able to just follow me all the way from Stratford, home to
0:02:08 > 0:02:09throw acid in my face.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Yeah.
0:02:13 > 0:02:14Are you ready?
0:02:15 > 0:02:18Yeah? I'm starting on your forehead now.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21- How's that feel?- OK.- OK?
0:02:23 > 0:02:28I think I'm at the stage of acceptance, which oddly enough
0:02:28 > 0:02:33feels like the most difficult stage of the whole situation.
0:02:33 > 0:02:34Most uncomfortable.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36- Would you like a bit of ice? - Yes, please.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Because you've had the moment to grieve,
0:02:38 > 0:02:41you've had that moment of resentment, you've had that moment of anger,
0:02:41 > 0:02:43and now you're just left with you.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47I'm very grateful that they've...
0:02:47 > 0:02:51you know, they've taken the time out to actually be gentle with me.
0:02:51 > 0:02:55Like, you know, they get, like, I'm a young girl and it's a lot to deal
0:02:55 > 0:02:56with. Like, your physical...
0:02:56 > 0:02:57Especially your face.
0:02:57 > 0:03:02Your face. That is so much, like, to deal with and...
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Yeah.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16But five years ago, when I was 20, life was very different.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18I'd just got my first job.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21It was at Victoria's Secret, Westfield in Stratford.
0:03:21 > 0:03:26MUSIC: Titanium by David Guetta feat. Sia
0:03:28 > 0:03:31When I did get the job, I was like, "Oh, they do beauty there."
0:03:31 > 0:03:35"You guys have to put me on beauty, because that's what I like."
0:03:35 > 0:03:37So they put me on the beauty section.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40I had a boyfriend.
0:03:40 > 0:03:44I just felt like, yeah, "I'm becoming a young adult.
0:03:44 > 0:03:45"I'm getting there."
0:03:47 > 0:03:51I had Naomi on the 11th
0:03:51 > 0:03:53of February 1992.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57I was so happy. I wanted a girl.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03I wasn't expecting her to be pretty
0:04:03 > 0:04:07like that. She was very pretty. Yeah.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11My mum, she's lovely.
0:04:11 > 0:04:12Her name is Marion.
0:04:12 > 0:04:19She's albino, so she's very fair in complexion.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21It can affect their eyes as well,
0:04:21 > 0:04:24so I had to be her carer because of her eyesight.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26And especially because I'm her only child as well,
0:04:26 > 0:04:29so I've always had that, like, "I have to look out for my mum."
0:04:29 > 0:04:34MUSIC: Pretty Hurts by Beyonce
0:04:36 > 0:04:39My mum has always gone out of her way to make sure I feel comfortable
0:04:39 > 0:04:41about my physical appearance,
0:04:41 > 0:04:46because I can only imagine how she probably would have felt being a young woman
0:04:46 > 0:04:49and having people treat you according to the way you look
0:04:49 > 0:04:55physically. So, she's always wanted me to be smart, to be clever,
0:04:55 > 0:04:56to be well-spoken.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00Because when you do look different,
0:05:00 > 0:05:04the way you come across becomes more important than your physical
0:05:04 > 0:05:08appearance and it has to be, because it's how you're going to get through life.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16My name's Vida
0:05:16 > 0:05:18and I know Naomi because we are school friends.
0:05:20 > 0:05:25I just remember us being told off a lot by the teachers for not actually
0:05:25 > 0:05:26listening in class, but
0:05:26 > 0:05:30- it was fun.- My name is Phyllis.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32I went to school with Naomi, secondary school.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34She was just a normal girl.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38We had a lot of common interests, like music and fashion
0:05:38 > 0:05:41- and celebrities and all that stuff.- Phyllis,
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Vida, and then there was another girl called Mary,
0:05:44 > 0:05:46were my closest friends.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49But I noticed that other girls would try and find every way to make you
0:05:49 > 0:05:51feel bad about yourself.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56Girls were just mean, if I'm honest.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Girls were very mean.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03I mean, from face value it was easy to assume it didn't bother her,
0:06:03 > 0:06:07but myself and Phyllis, Mary, we were more
0:06:07 > 0:06:09aware of how insecure she was.
0:06:09 > 0:06:13So, during break times, people might say, "Oh, look at her hair."
0:06:13 > 0:06:15Or, "Too much make-up," and she would just be like,
0:06:15 > 0:06:16"Shut up and leave me alone."
0:06:16 > 0:06:18But then in class she would get teary.
0:06:20 > 0:06:21So, Mary,
0:06:21 > 0:06:24she mentioned that she was quite bullied by the girls in the year above
0:06:24 > 0:06:27and, like, I kind of saw that in her,
0:06:27 > 0:06:30so I kind of felt protective over her and maybe sometimes she felt
0:06:30 > 0:06:33like the way people treated me was quite unfair.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36I just felt for her and it was just, like,
0:06:36 > 0:06:40natural of me to want to feel like I should protect her or be her friend.
0:06:40 > 0:06:45But I think Mary and Naomi both sought validation from each other because
0:06:45 > 0:06:48they had this common ground of, "No-one really gets me," almost,
0:06:48 > 0:06:50and they just got each other.
0:06:54 > 0:06:59Knowing that I was loved and accepted by my friends is something that I took for granted,
0:06:59 > 0:07:04but that all changed on December 29th 2012.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33I remember that day, December the 29th.
0:07:33 > 0:07:38It was Christmas time. I was just like, "Damn, everyone is at home.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42"My mum is cooking and I'm going to work. Really?"
0:07:42 > 0:07:43And I remember that day.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46I bought myself - because they were doing like Christmas sales -
0:07:46 > 0:07:49I bought myself a really nice pink, big, like,
0:07:49 > 0:07:51fluffy pink Victoria's Secret robe.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59- ANNOUNCEMENT:- The store will be closing in five minutes.
0:07:59 > 0:08:04I remember being at work, closing up, thinking, "Oh, yeah,
0:08:04 > 0:08:06"I'm happy to be going home."
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Everybody seemed to be in a good mood.
0:08:19 > 0:08:20I...
0:08:21 > 0:08:23I...
0:08:23 > 0:08:24I did my normal journey.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Stratford to West Ham,
0:08:30 > 0:08:33and then from West Ham, I would get the train to Barking.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41- TUBE ANNOUNCEMENT:- The next station is Barking.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44Change for London Overground and National Rail Services.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47And then from Barking, I would just about get the last bus home.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52I finished work at 11.30, so I probably got to Barking, like, after 12.
0:08:59 > 0:09:04I remember coming out of Barking Station and I remember I was hungry.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Like, I remember being very hungry.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10So, I was like, "OK, let me just get some chicken wings and chips
0:09:10 > 0:09:12"and I'll eat them when I get home."
0:09:18 > 0:09:24I got on my bus and while I was doing this journey, I was on the phone to my ex-boyfriend,
0:09:24 > 0:09:26just talking. I was thinking, I need the company,
0:09:26 > 0:09:28especially when it was late.
0:09:31 > 0:09:37The bus took me to my bus stop, just opposite my house, Bromhall Road.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41I just remember getting off the bus and I don't know,
0:09:41 > 0:09:43something just caught my attention.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45I just felt like startled a little bit.
0:09:46 > 0:09:50I looked to the side of me and I remember seeing someone in just black.
0:09:50 > 0:09:55I just remember seeing black and I remember the person's face being covered.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59It was a very cold stare, just a complete cold stare.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03And I just remember thinking, "Whoa," like, "OK.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06"Just cross the road and go to your house."
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Before I knew it,
0:10:12 > 0:10:16I just felt a hu-u-uge
0:10:16 > 0:10:20splash, and I just remember...
0:10:20 > 0:10:22SHE GASPS
0:10:22 > 0:10:29Like, literally like that, and I remember I immediately screamed.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Screamed. I clenched onto my stuff.
0:10:31 > 0:10:35I was on the phone and I was screaming, like, running down my road.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37I did not look back
0:10:37 > 0:10:40and I remember getting to my door and banging on my door.
0:10:40 > 0:10:41BANGING
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Screaming, screaming, screaming.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45I was like, "It's burning! It's burning!
0:10:45 > 0:10:46"Acid, acid, acid."
0:10:48 > 0:10:52And my mum opened the door and I just saw my mum's face like...
0:10:58 > 0:11:03I went upstairs and at this time, she was in the bathroom.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06I just knew straight away that it was acid,
0:11:06 > 0:11:08and it was strong acid because of the way it smelt.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11To me, I thought my skin was dissolving.
0:11:11 > 0:11:15Like, I was just going to, I don't know, corrode away.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19So we opened the shower and just doused her in water.
0:11:20 > 0:11:25I looked down and I realised that her jeans were falling apart.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27And then I thought, "Wow.
0:11:27 > 0:11:32- "This is everywhere."- And I could just feel the splashes of water,
0:11:32 > 0:11:34my skin is burnt.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38I just felt like, I don't know, just...
0:11:38 > 0:11:42How can I explain? You know when you put
0:11:42 > 0:11:47hot water in a glass and then you run it under a cold tap and it cracks?
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Like, it starts to break.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51That's how I felt.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56I just thought, "When can the ambulance and the police get here,
0:11:56 > 0:12:01"because I could be doing something wrong," but I just thought, "You can't go wrong with water and acid."
0:12:01 > 0:12:02Anything to dilute it.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08I just remember mucus just flowing down my face,
0:12:08 > 0:12:10like, my face was like purply, pink, green.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12I don't even know, it was just multicoloured.
0:12:12 > 0:12:17So I just remember literally
0:12:17 > 0:12:21humming, just humming in my head, trying to, like...
0:12:21 > 0:12:25not freak out, and I remember when the ambulance came
0:12:25 > 0:12:26and...
0:12:26 > 0:12:29SHE SIGHS
0:12:38 > 0:12:41I just remember seeing my mum so frozen.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44I said, "Please, Mum, go with the rest of them."
0:12:44 > 0:12:47And I told my aunt, "You need to come into the ambulance with me."
0:12:48 > 0:12:50I did not want my mum to come
0:12:50 > 0:12:53because I didn't want my mum to freak out.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00They were like, "OK, we are transferring her to Broomfield Hospital,
0:13:00 > 0:13:02"it's a burns unit."
0:13:02 > 0:13:05I was just like, "A burns unit?"
0:13:05 > 0:13:09I gave up. I don't know if my body just shut down.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13I remember coming into the hospital.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17It was like an episode of ER.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22I don't know if I was on the bed, I don't know if I was on the table.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24I just was getting poked and touched.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28And I could just hear voices in the background.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32"Burns," something, something "degree burns."
0:13:36 > 0:13:38My name is Naguib El-Muttardi,
0:13:38 > 0:13:42I am a consultant plastic reconstructive and burn surgeon,
0:13:42 > 0:13:45St Andrews Centre, Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.
0:13:45 > 0:13:51When we saw Naomi, the injuries were mainly on
0:13:51 > 0:13:53the right side of the face,
0:13:53 > 0:13:56the front of the scalp, the middle of the scalp,
0:13:56 > 0:14:00on the side of the nose, upper lip, part of the neck,
0:14:00 > 0:14:04the right forearm and hand
0:14:04 > 0:14:06and on the left thigh.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09So that was the extent of the injury.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13We usually see these attacks in young men,
0:14:13 > 0:14:18so at that time, it is not that common to have it in girls,
0:14:18 > 0:14:23but, unfortunately, she was one of those victims.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29From the beginning we knew that it is very deep.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33We knew that it is a full thickness damage to the skin,
0:14:33 > 0:14:36and she needs lots of surgeries to heal it and reconstruct it.
0:14:37 > 0:14:41So if you come across somebody who's been attacked with acid,
0:14:41 > 0:14:45I think the first thing we should do is remove any clothes
0:14:45 > 0:14:49which are soaked with the acid.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51You should cut it rather than pull it over,
0:14:51 > 0:14:57and straight away we should be starting the irrigation with water.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00This is really important in minimising the contact.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03Preventing the penetration of the acid
0:15:03 > 0:15:06should be done within ten seconds.
0:15:08 > 0:15:13The injury which acid can inflict is much more serious than a knife,
0:15:13 > 0:15:15I think.
0:15:15 > 0:15:20I think it is both physically and psychologically distressing,
0:15:20 > 0:15:22because it's a disfiguring injury.
0:15:22 > 0:15:27The one who is attempting to assault with acid, he doesn't want to kill,
0:15:27 > 0:15:31but he wants to disfigure and make permanent marks on that person.
0:15:33 > 0:15:38I can't understand why anybody would do what they did.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42I think that's when I started to actually realise the severity of
0:15:42 > 0:15:44what had actually been done to me.
0:15:44 > 0:15:49My face was... I felt like my face was literally ten times the size and my eyes were so swollen.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52I just remember mucus was always running.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55It wasn't even tears. I just remember sometimes I would have to wipe,
0:15:55 > 0:15:57like, mucus, mucus, mucus, mucus, mucus.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01That's all it was. Pus, yellow stuff just coming out of my eyes.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04I think that's when I realised it's burning my eyes.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08They said, "There's a lot of it in your eyes and we're going to have to
0:16:08 > 0:16:11"wash it out with saline."
0:16:11 > 0:16:14So, they then have to touch my skin,
0:16:14 > 0:16:19stretch my eyes open to wash a corrosive substance out of my eyes with the
0:16:19 > 0:16:21rest of my face burned.
0:16:21 > 0:16:26And I just remembered water, like, in my eye, in my eye, in my eye,
0:16:26 > 0:16:27in my eye, in my eye,
0:16:27 > 0:16:31and I'm trying to blink, but at the same time open my eyes, because I don't
0:16:31 > 0:16:35want to go blind. Like, I don't want to be blind. Like...
0:16:35 > 0:16:37that's not my portion.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41"I don't want to be blind," that's what I keep thinking.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44From the way she talks about it now, I think nobody expected that she was
0:16:44 > 0:16:46going to get her sight back.
0:16:46 > 0:16:50The prognosis for one of the eyes was really bad and they said she
0:16:50 > 0:16:53would have SOME in the other eye, I think.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57And it was only then I realised, "God, the acid...
0:16:57 > 0:16:59"it just kind of worked its way through."
0:17:06 > 0:17:09After the attack, I had two major facial reconstruction surgeries.
0:17:11 > 0:17:16They took skin from my thighs to replace skin damaged on my arm, shoulder,
0:17:16 > 0:17:18other thigh and almost half of my face.
0:17:21 > 0:17:26No-one actually really showed me how to put make-up on as a burn survivor.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29I kind of had to practise, practise, practise as I went along.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35So, this is like the most important process of my make-up, because
0:17:35 > 0:17:37obviously it helps
0:17:37 > 0:17:39bring my complexion.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42I try to match my
0:17:42 > 0:17:45foundation as close to my neck as possible.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52When you're rubbing it, you have to be careful because it's not like skin, is it?
0:17:52 > 0:17:55It's skin that was taken from my thigh to be put on my face,
0:17:55 > 0:17:59so if you cut your skin it's not going to grow back.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06I lost my eyelids,
0:18:06 > 0:18:11so they had to take skin from behind my ears to create an eyelid.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14I don't know if you can see that round shape.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17They kind of had to create eyelids for me.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25I used to look in the mirror and I would just feel so hurt.
0:18:25 > 0:18:26So, so hurt that...
0:18:28 > 0:18:30..this thing is so destructive,
0:18:30 > 0:18:33it's actually made me look unrecognisable.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Initially my face was quite flat.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42I remember my nose and under my eye were literally the same level.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47So when I had to do my make-up, I'd have to do so much contouring to
0:18:47 > 0:18:49basically make my face more 3D.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55So, yeah, I would say I've come a very long way.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07A week after the attack, I was still in hospital,
0:19:07 > 0:19:10not knowing who had done this to me and not being able to see.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13But then my eyes started to open a bit.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20My vision became like patches, like little dots,
0:19:20 > 0:19:22and I think there was a day where,
0:19:22 > 0:19:25you know, when your screen is black and I was picking it up to use it,
0:19:25 > 0:19:28and I remember I caught my reflection
0:19:28 > 0:19:29and I was just like...
0:19:32 > 0:19:37I was a bit scared. I was like, "That does not look like me."
0:19:37 > 0:19:40So, at this point, it was the local police officers
0:19:40 > 0:19:43who were trying to find out who had done this to me.
0:19:43 > 0:19:44The police were even asking me,
0:19:44 > 0:19:47like, "Have you ever been threatened that somebody was going
0:19:47 > 0:19:49"to throw acid at you in the past?" And I said...
0:19:51 > 0:19:53"Funny enough," I said, "Yeah,
0:19:53 > 0:19:59"like, someone actually has weirdly enough threatened to throw acid at me in the past."
0:19:59 > 0:20:01And I explained to them, I said,
0:20:01 > 0:20:04"Oh, one time, me and my friend Mary, we fell out.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07"And she threatened that she was going to throw acid at me," but I was like,
0:20:07 > 0:20:10"That was so long ago." I explained to the officer
0:20:10 > 0:20:13that Mary had messaged me to see how I was and she's been calling me, like,
0:20:13 > 0:20:16since I've been in the hospital. So I was, like, she's completely concerned,
0:20:16 > 0:20:18like, that I'm in the hospital.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Like, that's a friend, because that's how a friend reacts.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26It happens the day before New Year's Eve,
0:20:26 > 0:20:28when resources are low in any case.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32And Naomi was the only witness to the offence.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38It is not an easy investigation for the officers to deal with
0:20:38 > 0:20:40and this went to the local police.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43There was extensive house to house done.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46But there was nobody that saw anything
0:20:46 > 0:20:50apart from Naomi screaming down the street
0:20:50 > 0:20:52as a result of this attack.
0:20:53 > 0:20:59So, trying to prove who actually carried out this offence is very
0:20:59 > 0:21:02difficult. The identification goes out the window.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05We're talking about an incident that happens in the middle of the night,
0:21:05 > 0:21:08you have street lighting to rely on
0:21:08 > 0:21:12and the suspect was wearing a full niqab,
0:21:12 > 0:21:16which only allowed the...
0:21:16 > 0:21:17the eyes to be shown.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22It was six weeks after I was attacked that Mary
0:21:22 > 0:21:26was brought in for questioning.
0:21:26 > 0:21:33The time now is 13.29 on February 22nd 2013.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Eventually, local officers arrested Mary.
0:21:36 > 0:21:41They had arrested her on the basis that Naomi had said her friend had
0:21:41 > 0:21:45- threatened her before.- Do you want to tell me how you know Naomi?
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Yeah, I've know Naomi since secondary school.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52How would you describe your relationship with Naomi?
0:21:52 > 0:21:55Yeah, I think we're quite close, like, we speak regularly on the phone.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58The officer did point out that she said something,
0:21:58 > 0:22:00we had an argument over a year ago.
0:22:00 > 0:22:01And she says in the argument
0:22:01 > 0:22:04that you said you wanted to throw acid in her face.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Acid? No.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Because that's a very particular...
0:22:09 > 0:22:15- It's...- ..thing, I mean, acid attacks over here, especially, are very rare,
0:22:15 > 0:22:18so why pick a comment like that?
0:22:18 > 0:22:21I cannot remember saying that.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23I know when she told me this happened to her, I was just, like...
0:22:23 > 0:22:25why? Why would...?
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Why? I just don't understand.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31She said they had had disagreements in the past,
0:22:31 > 0:22:34but it's like friends and they fall in, fall out
0:22:34 > 0:22:38and there wasn't any other evidence to really tie Mary into it
0:22:38 > 0:22:40from the borough perspective.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44She was released from the police station.
0:22:44 > 0:22:45She was given a bail date,
0:22:45 > 0:22:49so I can understand how frustrated the family were.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Two months and really,
0:22:51 > 0:22:54there's nothing that you could hang your hat on
0:22:54 > 0:22:57for progress in that investigation.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03I just remember thinking, "Oh, I've lost my face.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05"I'm going to be bald.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07"I'm not going to have eyebrows
0:23:07 > 0:23:09"and I'm going to have thighs for a face."
0:23:11 > 0:23:13And I remember when, like, people would ask me, like,
0:23:13 > 0:23:15"It must be somebody close to you, somebody close to you,
0:23:15 > 0:23:18"somebody close to you." And I was like, "People I know, like,
0:23:18 > 0:23:20"wouldn't do anything like that to me."
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Anyone that knows me, I don't think is crazy enough.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26People just ask, "Was she rowing about a boy?"
0:23:26 > 0:23:28And I said, "Not that I know of."
0:23:28 > 0:23:32I thought, "Do you know what? She's just a normal kid."
0:23:32 > 0:23:35There was nothing way out.
0:23:35 > 0:23:39The police were even asking me, like, "Oh, have you ever been in a gang?"
0:23:39 > 0:23:43And that's when I started to think "Oh..."
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Like, things are just making a turn for the worse.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47It became, "Tell us the truth.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49"Have you ever been in a gang?"
0:23:49 > 0:23:53So when the police came and asked certain questions,
0:23:53 > 0:24:00it was hard not to think they were fishing for information, but again,
0:24:00 > 0:24:03I tried to be objective and thought, "You know what?
0:24:03 > 0:24:06"They have to pursue all their lines of inquiry."
0:24:08 > 0:24:13I had been in hospital for weeks and I was just about to be discharged.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16The police had taken my laptop and found some of my Google searches
0:24:16 > 0:24:18on Katie Piper and eyelid surgery.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21So, the police found these things
0:24:21 > 0:24:25and that led them to, like, investigating me.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29Like, if I did it, if I threw acid on myself.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32My uncle just said, "The way it's looking, it's not looking good.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34"They're not coming to us with any information,
0:24:34 > 0:24:38"so let us go to the press."
0:24:39 > 0:24:40What I can't believe is that you
0:24:40 > 0:24:42were just discharged a week and a half ago.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45I mean, you've had such an ordeal.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47How many operations have you had?
0:24:47 > 0:24:49I had two within four weeks.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52This person is still out there?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54- Yes.- And police don't know who they are?
0:24:54 > 0:24:56- No.- What the motive was?
0:24:56 > 0:24:57There's no clue as to the motive?
0:24:57 > 0:25:00- No.- So they have to remain open-minded
0:25:00 > 0:25:02about what happened that night?
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Yes.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07What do you say to them, if they happen to be watching?
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Just, I just want them to realise the pain
0:25:10 > 0:25:12they've put myself and my family through.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15And I hope they don't do this to anybody else,
0:25:15 > 0:25:18and I just want them to know that whatever they tried to do to me,
0:25:18 > 0:25:22they failed in doing what they were doing and actually they made me a
0:25:22 > 0:25:23stronger person.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26I'm actually happy.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28And whoever they are, if they can just come out
0:25:28 > 0:25:30and just reveal themselves,
0:25:30 > 0:25:32I'd like to know, you know, why? I don't hate them.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35- I just want to know why.- Oh, gosh...
0:25:35 > 0:25:37- Come over here. - Come here.- Oh, dear.
0:25:37 > 0:25:38- SOBBING: Thank you.- Oh, not at all.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41You sit there like that and hopefully, at some stage,
0:25:41 > 0:25:44you'll be able to get some sort of an answer as to why this happened and why they did this to you.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47- I hope so, too.- And hopefully someone will catch them so they don't do it to
0:25:47 > 0:25:50- anybody else.- Exactly. I don't want them to do it to anyone else.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54I don't want other girls or other people having to go through what I've gone through.
0:25:55 > 0:25:59At Scotland Yard there's big media type rooms there,
0:25:59 > 0:26:02where they monitor television...
0:26:02 > 0:26:04constantly.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08And this came up on a morning show, I believe,
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Philip Schofield-type thing.
0:26:11 > 0:26:17And you have a young lady on there that's clearly been the subject of an attack,
0:26:17 > 0:26:21and then that rings alarm bells at Scotland Yard.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24And it just so happened that when the request came in
0:26:24 > 0:26:28from Scotland Yard for this particular case to be reviewed,
0:26:28 > 0:26:31it was my team that was on-call.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34I do feel like the press interest made the police up their game
0:26:34 > 0:26:40and relook into the situation, and that this situation is, you know,
0:26:40 > 0:26:43for it to go to the homicide team, that's pretty serious.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51After my attack, I didn't really get in touch with my friends.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53I didn't want to talk to many people.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56Vida and Phyllis were out of London at university,
0:26:56 > 0:26:58so they only found out when I went public.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Naomi Oni - a happy and confident young woman,
0:27:05 > 0:27:08who dreamed of working in the beauty industry,
0:27:08 > 0:27:10permanently disfigured in a
0:27:10 > 0:27:13deliberate, wicked and devastating act.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16I remember it very clearly.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18I was on the way home. My phone is always on vibrate.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21- I just remember my phone kind of... - SHE BUZZES
0:27:21 > 0:27:22..all the time.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24And then I got a call from my cousin.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27And he's like, "Why haven't you looked at my WhatsApp?
0:27:27 > 0:27:29"You haven't said anything." I said "Why? Why?"
0:27:29 > 0:27:31"Look at WhatsApp." I looked at my WhatsApp
0:27:31 > 0:27:34and there was, literally, message after message. It just said, "Victoria's Secret."
0:27:34 > 0:27:36It was like a link and it said, "Victoria's Secret."
0:27:36 > 0:27:38And I kind of thought, "What is this?"
0:27:38 > 0:27:41And I clicked on it. And I just remember seeing the image
0:27:41 > 0:27:44and thinking, "Oh, my God.
0:27:44 > 0:27:45"Oh, my God."
0:27:47 > 0:27:49I saw the pictures that came out when she was in hospital
0:27:49 > 0:27:51and it was still black.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54I was thinking, "No-one deserves that."
0:27:54 > 0:27:56Like, I wouldn't even wish that on my enemy,
0:27:56 > 0:27:58but no-one deserves that.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02And I thought, "I swear I just saw her, like, less than a month ago.
0:28:02 > 0:28:07"And she's like a different person now."
0:28:09 > 0:28:10Yeah...
0:28:10 > 0:28:13My face was black.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15My eyes were swollen.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18I was terrified.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21And I remember when I came out into the press,
0:28:21 > 0:28:25and obviously people had seen, like, on the news and stuff.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28And I remember Mary messaging me saying, "Oh, my gosh.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30"It doesn't even look like you."
0:28:34 > 0:28:36I just kept thinking, "Who would do that?"
0:28:38 > 0:28:42Then the press found out that the police had this theory I'd done this to myself
0:28:42 > 0:28:44and that was all they seemed to focus on.
0:28:46 > 0:28:47I don't understand.
0:28:47 > 0:28:49Why am I in the hospital? Why is this happening to me?
0:28:49 > 0:28:52You know, why was I even attacked in the first place? Who did this?
0:28:52 > 0:28:55Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
0:28:55 > 0:28:58But instead, all the questions
0:28:58 > 0:29:00ended up on me.
0:29:04 > 0:29:08When they said Naomi did it to herself, like, I just thought,
0:29:08 > 0:29:09"I can't believe they're saying that."
0:29:09 > 0:29:13Naomi is not the type, she's not, she would never do that herself.
0:29:13 > 0:29:16I don't know anyone that would actually do that to themselves.
0:29:16 > 0:29:19There was a whole story about some celebrity person
0:29:19 > 0:29:21who had acid poured on her face
0:29:21 > 0:29:24and people were drawing parallels, and I'm just thinking, "Wow."
0:29:24 > 0:29:27You know, where did that all come from?
0:29:27 > 0:29:30It was portrayed in the media that,
0:29:30 > 0:29:33because she was researching Katie Piper,
0:29:33 > 0:29:37then, you know, she almost planned it because she saw, like, the outcome for
0:29:37 > 0:29:42Katie Piper's life after and thought, "Oh, maybe if I did this to myself..."
0:29:42 > 0:29:44And it's terrible
0:29:44 > 0:29:47to say that somebody would attack themselves to look like
0:29:47 > 0:29:50or to be like a survivor.
0:29:50 > 0:29:52It is not a joke.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57It was tough hearing, like, kind of nonsense, can I say,
0:29:57 > 0:30:02like, kind of being put out about
0:30:02 > 0:30:03who my friend is as a person.
0:30:03 > 0:30:08It's like, do you really want to hear my story or are you looking
0:30:08 > 0:30:13for a secret that I'm hiding or me to say something extra?
0:30:13 > 0:30:16Like, I was attacked on my way home from work.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18That's all I know.
0:30:18 > 0:30:21Like, I was attacked on my way home from work.
0:30:21 > 0:30:23I did not know what somebody else had in store for me.
0:30:26 > 0:30:27Two months after the attack,
0:30:27 > 0:30:30and the homicide team are now leading the investigation.
0:30:31 > 0:30:34We went straight back to the start,
0:30:34 > 0:30:38right back to the very beginning, examining every piece of CCTV.
0:30:38 > 0:30:42And it was very shortly after we started that,
0:30:42 > 0:30:46that we picked Naomi up, coming through Barking Station.
0:30:46 > 0:30:47And then you keep watching it,
0:30:47 > 0:30:52and then you see a woman walking through the same barriers
0:30:52 > 0:30:56ten, 15 seconds behind, wearing a full niqab, following Naomi.
0:30:58 > 0:31:00It was almost like we're trying to be detectives.
0:31:00 > 0:31:02We were trying to work it out ourselves,
0:31:02 > 0:31:04it's like, "Who would do that though?
0:31:04 > 0:31:05"Like, is it someone we know?"
0:31:05 > 0:31:06Is it this? Is it that? Is it that?
0:31:06 > 0:31:10And we just kind of, everyone, every name kind of popped up and then,
0:31:10 > 0:31:13a particular name popped up and it was just like, no.
0:31:13 > 0:31:15Then, we were kind of silent on the phone, like...
0:31:15 > 0:31:18Vida called me.
0:31:18 > 0:31:20And we were just talking about the whole situation.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24And we just said to each other, "What if it's Mary?"
0:31:24 > 0:31:27Without seeing any, without anything.
0:31:27 > 0:31:29Mary could be quite unpredictable.
0:31:29 > 0:31:34She came from being polite and quite well-spoken to just being quite
0:31:34 > 0:31:38passive aggressive and unresponsive almost.
0:31:38 > 0:31:41Back in school, like, you'd be scared of Mary.
0:31:41 > 0:31:44Not because you're scared that she's going to beat you up or...
0:31:44 > 0:31:48It was just, there was just something about her that was just scary.
0:31:49 > 0:31:53You then go backwards again to a previous station
0:31:53 > 0:31:56and you see her coming out with her friends.
0:31:56 > 0:31:59And at a bit more of a distance this time,
0:31:59 > 0:32:04you see the same figure in a niqab appearing to mirror Naomi's movements.
0:32:04 > 0:32:07And everyone's like, "Oh, it must be her, it must be her."
0:32:07 > 0:32:10And it's like, "No, no." But everyone was, like, saying it,
0:32:10 > 0:32:11but convincing themselves, "No, no, no.
0:32:11 > 0:32:13"We don't want it to be true.
0:32:13 > 0:32:15"We don't want it to be true at all."
0:32:15 > 0:32:19This person is present at Westfield shopping centre,
0:32:19 > 0:32:21all the way through to Barking Station.
0:32:22 > 0:32:26And then, they both head off together towards the bus.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28So when you piece all this together,
0:32:28 > 0:32:31you have verification of what Naomi's been telling us all along.
0:32:32 > 0:32:36That lady had a distinctive handbag.
0:32:37 > 0:32:41And when we reviewed the custody images
0:32:41 > 0:32:45that we had when Mary was originally arrested,
0:32:45 > 0:32:48it looked like she had exactly the same bag.
0:32:52 > 0:32:55And then you got thinking, "No, no.
0:32:55 > 0:32:58"This looks like it's got potential."
0:33:00 > 0:33:02When we had her come back in on bail,
0:33:02 > 0:33:05this warrant was done at the address
0:33:05 > 0:33:09and the bag was recovered and, long story short,
0:33:09 > 0:33:16it has traces of damage that is typical of an acidic acid.
0:33:16 > 0:33:24And she changed her status on WhatsApp following the attack to Freddy Krueger.
0:33:24 > 0:33:27And a, "Who looks like Wrong Turn now?"
0:33:27 > 0:33:30Pretty quickly, she removes that,
0:33:30 > 0:33:33but not before several people have seen it.
0:33:33 > 0:33:35Why would you do that? That just shows you
0:33:35 > 0:33:38what a cold, calculating woman she is.
0:33:38 > 0:33:40I didn't hear much
0:33:40 > 0:33:43and then, all of a sudden, we heard that they might have somebody.
0:33:44 > 0:33:46And we thought, "Who?"
0:33:46 > 0:33:49And they said it was somebody she knew, it was a friend.
0:33:49 > 0:33:51And I thought, "No..."
0:33:51 > 0:33:53I can't remember who called me,
0:33:53 > 0:33:55and she was like, "Oh, my God!
0:33:55 > 0:33:57"You'll never guess who."
0:33:57 > 0:33:59I said, "Don't tell me.
0:33:59 > 0:34:03"Don't tell me." It's like, "Yeah, it's Mary."
0:34:03 > 0:34:07I wasn't shocked at all that it was Mary that did it,
0:34:07 > 0:34:09even though it was her friend, but...
0:34:09 > 0:34:10I wasn't shocked.
0:34:14 > 0:34:20They were, like, "Naomi, we're afraid to tell you that Mary is
0:34:20 > 0:34:23"the person behind the niqab."
0:34:25 > 0:34:27And I just remember being so distraught.
0:34:30 > 0:34:33I thought she was my friend.
0:34:33 > 0:34:38And I couldn't understand why she did what she did.
0:34:38 > 0:34:39Like, I just...
0:34:41 > 0:34:43I couldn't understand it.
0:34:53 > 0:34:56The next time I saw Mary was when I had to face her in court.
0:34:56 > 0:34:59I wanted to look her in the eyes to know whether she'd really thrown the
0:34:59 > 0:35:01acid at me and why.
0:35:02 > 0:35:07Realising somebody that you thought was your friend isn't your friend,
0:35:07 > 0:35:08it's a grief, yeah.
0:35:11 > 0:35:16And actually, like, to be betrayed, like, I was...
0:35:17 > 0:35:21For someone to lead you to your destruction basically...
0:35:23 > 0:35:27..I was heartbroken. Just, everything all at once.
0:35:31 > 0:35:34Mary Konye took the stand.
0:35:34 > 0:35:38Her defence formed around a line that had come out in the press about
0:35:38 > 0:35:39the self-infliction.
0:35:40 > 0:35:44Mary actually threw it because Naomi wanted her to throw it,
0:35:44 > 0:35:46so Naomi got publicity.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48And she was actually saying it to me, like, in such a strict way.
0:35:48 > 0:35:52Like, "You threw it on yourself and you didn't think it would hit your
0:35:52 > 0:35:56face." And I just thought, "Is this a joke?"
0:35:56 > 0:35:59Like, "Are we all going to act like we're not adults?"
0:35:59 > 0:36:03Who in their right mind would pour acid on themselves?
0:36:03 > 0:36:05And that's the crux of the matter.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07Would you do that to yourself?
0:36:07 > 0:36:09She was... There were even times where she said,
0:36:09 > 0:36:13"Oh, she remembers that night calling me and we were on the phone.
0:36:13 > 0:36:15"And we were making, like, arrangements."
0:36:15 > 0:36:19She latched onto certain aspects and certain stories that were in the
0:36:19 > 0:36:23press and pieced together a defence around that,
0:36:23 > 0:36:27but there was nothing to ever substantiate and support
0:36:27 > 0:36:30this type of theory that they had hatched a plot together.
0:36:33 > 0:36:38We had to prove that the person that was coming through the gate following
0:36:38 > 0:36:43Naomi in the niqab was one and the same person, that was Mary Konye.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45Yes, the bag, was one thing,
0:36:45 > 0:36:50but there was something else individually specific to Mary Konye.
0:36:52 > 0:36:56When I saw the CCTV, I knew straight away that it was Mary.
0:36:56 > 0:36:59Mary has a distinctive walk.
0:36:59 > 0:37:01She's always had it. It was Mary.
0:37:02 > 0:37:06She puts weight on one side of the foot rather than the other
0:37:06 > 0:37:08and it gives her a roll.
0:37:08 > 0:37:15So we had an expert in gait analysis analyse the imagery that we had from
0:37:15 > 0:37:18the CCTV, and comparing it,
0:37:18 > 0:37:22the woman in the niqab to the woman in the custody office,
0:37:22 > 0:37:23that it was one and the same person.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29I think Mary is a very calculating person.
0:37:30 > 0:37:33Devoid of any empathy or remorse.
0:37:34 > 0:37:38After the incident, she even went to Naomi's birthday party that the
0:37:38 > 0:37:42family arranged and she sat there and she's talking to the family,
0:37:42 > 0:37:44she's talking to Naomi,
0:37:44 > 0:37:47offering her sympathy, and for someone to do that,
0:37:47 > 0:37:50you've got to be a very cold and calculating type of person.
0:37:53 > 0:37:54I didn't know she was like that.
0:37:54 > 0:37:57I was just shocked. I think more than anything, I was shocked.
0:37:57 > 0:38:01And I was actually scared. Not even scared of her,
0:38:01 > 0:38:05but scared of how I could really think that I knew somebody
0:38:05 > 0:38:10for about ten years, to realise that I didn't know them at all.
0:38:14 > 0:38:16Like, what is it that I was missing out on?
0:38:16 > 0:38:19Like, how could I have avoided this?
0:38:21 > 0:38:24There was an intense love.
0:38:24 > 0:38:27It was motherly, it was sisterly...
0:38:27 > 0:38:29romantically, maybe, at some point?
0:38:29 > 0:38:31I don't know.
0:38:31 > 0:38:36But then there was something in the middle of it that just was sour.
0:38:36 > 0:38:39But it was almost like, when you love something so much,
0:38:39 > 0:38:42there's going to be something about it that you hate
0:38:42 > 0:38:44and that hate can just
0:38:44 > 0:38:46make you do crazy things, I think.
0:38:47 > 0:38:50So, Mary is a dark-skinned girl.
0:38:51 > 0:38:54I've always thought she was a beautiful person,
0:38:54 > 0:38:57a beautiful girl, but she didn't feel that way.
0:38:57 > 0:38:59Her mum's of, like, a lighter-skinned complexion.
0:38:59 > 0:39:02Her sisters were of a light-skinned complexion.
0:39:02 > 0:39:04So maybe that caused her a lot of frustration.
0:39:05 > 0:39:09A lot of black women feel that the lighter you are,
0:39:09 > 0:39:11the more better-looking you can be.
0:39:11 > 0:39:15Obviously you can't really change your features, but...
0:39:15 > 0:39:18people just feel that to look better is to be fairer.
0:39:18 > 0:39:20Which I don't think is true.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23But I think that probably was a big thing for her.
0:39:23 > 0:39:26When I saw Mary, I just...
0:39:26 > 0:39:27I'd noticed she'd gone lighter.
0:39:27 > 0:39:30Quite lighter,
0:39:30 > 0:39:32and Naomi is light-skinned
0:39:32 > 0:39:33and I know that they're friends.
0:39:33 > 0:39:38So I just assumed that, OK, she's trying to look more like Naomi.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40That's what I... That's what I felt.
0:39:40 > 0:39:43The court heard Konye had disguised herself
0:39:43 > 0:39:46and carried out the attack out of jealousy.
0:39:47 > 0:39:51I don't honestly understand her type of person.
0:39:51 > 0:39:53I really don't.
0:39:53 > 0:39:57To this day, like, even the thought of her boggles my mind.
0:39:57 > 0:40:03To me, a friend is somebody who loves you despite your flaws
0:40:03 > 0:40:06and that's what friends should be like.
0:40:06 > 0:40:07And when I looked at her, I was like, yeah,
0:40:07 > 0:40:10like, this is a person who I thought was my friend
0:40:10 > 0:40:13and she's just a big coward.
0:40:14 > 0:40:20Mary Konye, the suspect, has now been found guilty of the throwing of
0:40:20 > 0:40:24a caustic liquid with intent to maim, disfigure.
0:40:24 > 0:40:30All resulting from a trivial, insignificant argument that
0:40:30 > 0:40:32everybody has in their everyday lives.
0:40:32 > 0:40:37But Mary Konye has taken it so far that she has planned this,
0:40:37 > 0:40:39disguised herself,
0:40:39 > 0:40:46and followed Naomi on that night on the 29th of December 2012.
0:40:46 > 0:40:48I wouldn't even want an apology,
0:40:48 > 0:40:51because an apology now would be an insult.
0:40:53 > 0:40:56What kind of an apology could she possibly give
0:40:56 > 0:40:58when she knew what she was doing?
0:41:02 > 0:41:10MUSIC: Diamonds by Rihanna
0:41:11 > 0:41:16I met up with Naomi, I guess, a couple of months after and, literally, we...
0:41:16 > 0:41:19I mean, it was funny, because I think for, like, 30 seconds
0:41:19 > 0:41:20I just froze.
0:41:20 > 0:41:25I was like, "Hi..." And she was like, "Hey," and hugged me and then we just kind
0:41:25 > 0:41:28of stared at each other for like 30 seconds and didn't say anything.
0:41:30 > 0:41:32I could hear her voice, I knew it was her.
0:41:32 > 0:41:34She smelled the same,
0:41:34 > 0:41:35she laughed the same.
0:41:37 > 0:41:39It's almost like when I was looking at her face,
0:41:39 > 0:41:44I was almost, like, in my mind moulding the Year Eight Naomi I cuddled.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48But I just saw her heart still
0:41:48 > 0:41:51and I was like, "She's still beautiful to me."
0:41:51 > 0:41:53I think I remember writing that on her wall on Facebook.
0:41:53 > 0:41:57Like, "You're still one of the most beautiful girls I've ever met."
0:41:57 > 0:41:59Hi!
0:42:00 > 0:42:02Ah, hi!
0:42:02 > 0:42:05- Hi, Doll.- How are you?
0:42:05 > 0:42:07I'm good.
0:42:09 > 0:42:11Look what I found.
0:42:11 > 0:42:13- School pictures.- Yeah, pictures.
0:42:13 > 0:42:14Look at my weave.
0:42:14 > 0:42:18You guys are not real friends, because this is not nice.
0:42:18 > 0:42:19I like this picture.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22Look what else I found, this one.
0:42:25 > 0:42:27I have some pictures.
0:42:27 > 0:42:29This is a picture of me.
0:42:29 > 0:42:31You always laugh at this picture!
0:42:31 > 0:42:34Every time I show... I used to bring this picture to school
0:42:34 > 0:42:36and Phyllis used to be like, "Look at Naomi's cheeks."
0:42:36 > 0:42:41- Wow... So cute.- Look.- I like this picture. And then look at this person.
0:42:41 > 0:42:44Wow... She's just segregating herself.
0:42:44 > 0:42:47And look, even look at the way she's looking at him, like...
0:42:47 > 0:42:49- It's weird, isn't it? - I like my outfit.
0:42:49 > 0:42:51Yeah, you look cute, girl.
0:42:51 > 0:42:54I don't know who I thought I was, but, yeah.
0:42:54 > 0:42:55Aw, I love all these pictures.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59Yeah, good photos, good photos.
0:42:59 > 0:43:02- Memories.- Memories. - Yeah.
0:43:05 > 0:43:09MUSIC: Read All About It by Emeli Sande
0:43:17 > 0:43:19Every single day is different.
0:43:19 > 0:43:23Every single day you learn something new.
0:43:23 > 0:43:25Every single day you have to learn, you have to have a different type of
0:43:25 > 0:43:28strength in different situations like...
0:43:28 > 0:43:33it's hard. It's hard and just knowing the difference of how you're even
0:43:33 > 0:43:35being treated when you go out,
0:43:35 > 0:43:37and the way people look at you and the way people stare at you.
0:43:37 > 0:43:3920 years, I didn't have to deal with that.
0:43:39 > 0:43:42Like, and I have to deal with that now.
0:43:42 > 0:43:44And no man is an island.
0:43:44 > 0:43:48Like, I'm only human.
0:43:48 > 0:43:50That's it. Like, I'm only human.
0:43:52 > 0:43:53That was a nice conversation.
0:43:54 > 0:43:56- Good.- I liked that.
0:43:56 > 0:43:58- Good.- Yeah.
0:43:58 > 0:44:00I liked that.