When Dawn Floyd was just 12-years-old she took an overdose which left her hospitalised. Now 63, the mother of two says it was a moment in her childhood which still sticks vividly in her mind.
Fifty years later the businesswoman, mother and grandmother says she feels ready to speak openly about what she says led her to make such a harrowing decision at a heartbreakingly young age. Even now she is haunted by it.
“When I think back to my childhood I am filled with sadness,” she says, speaking to WalesOnline from her home in Chepstow where she also runs a thriving antiques shop. “I feel like I never had a childhood. There was nothing normal about it, no playing with other children, no real love. I moved from Liverpool to Leominster and was ridiculed for my Indian complexion and Liverpudlian accent.”
