To be honest about it, was quite hurtful, and I have to say that I came out, for want of a better word, with regards to my epilepsy, for a very good reason that I didn't want to have a situation where when I did stutter, that someone would accuse me of, for instance, being drunk.
Discussing the impact of health discussions on his public image.
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I do. And I do on the basis of they inherited a bag of you know what, and they have had to try and untangle that and put this thing back together after the way in which it had been run for years.
It’s a very small sum of money for 16 and 17-year-olds. Governments have to be prepared to put their hands in their pocket to do that.
I do think bringing a person's health into public discourse in the manner in which it was, through an anonymous source, is something that I haven't seen before.
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