The Voice winner Mo Adeniran has spoken about the severe emotional pain he still feels after being abused during his childhood.
Worse still, it was at the hands of his adoptive mother and the pain is still very real for him.
The incredibly-talented 21-year-old has revealed he still has flashbacks to the painful memories.
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He says the traumatic visions come when he’s trying to sleep at night.
But incredibly for someone so young, he says he “has nothing but love” for his abusive adoptive mother.
Mo was born into care before being adopted as a toddler at just three-years-old.
By the time he was eight, social services realised there was something very wrong and rescued him.
It became clear the woman who was supposed to be caring for her new vulnerable son had actually been violent.
Now though, Mo says he forgives his mother: “It took a very long time [to forgive her], I was very angry as a result of her actions and things that happened.
“When I go to sleep I still see the things, and go through things that happened. It’s not going to go away.”
Now the Warrington star says he’s confronted his demons and grown out of a rebellious time as a teenager.
He admits he was boozing too much to run away from his feelings but he’s now found peace.
Mo told The Sun: “If you spend your time being angry at someone, you carry that anger around, so I have to go, ‘I forgive her.’
“No one can be perfect one hundred percent of the time and I accept that, I felt better about myself when I moved on.
“I have no anger, I have nothing but love for her.
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“I believe in treating people how you’d wish to be treated.”
He went on: “We don’t see eye to eye as we both have different views on how we see the world and how we see life, but I can’t change her and she can’t change me, but if our paths eventually cross again, we’ll see…”
Has she been in touch to say ‘well done’ to the son she once had? Sadly not. “She hasn’t congratulated me yet. It’s one of those where it’s a very fragile relationship.”