Not long after launching her groundbreaking Gurls Talk project, model/actress/activist Adwoa Aboah sat down with i-D to chat sobriety, fighting sexism and working with Scarlett Johansson.
, she’s been in and out of rehab, culminating in a suicide attempt at the end of 2014. Thankfully, out of tragedy comes triumph, and now sober, Adwoa is determined to use her experiences to provide other girls with a safe space to talk about the issues we all face growing up, a space where they can share their worries, and use female creativity as a tool for change.
Returning from hospital marked the start of a slow and painful journey to rehabilitation, and to where she is now. “At the beginning I was very resentful to still be around,” she confesses. “I wasn’t happy to have been saved. After I returned from hospital, my family and I had to relearn how to treat each other, and what we thought about mental health and addiction. It was so difficult, and so hard for them to deal with someone who didn’t want to be there anymore.
With one in four adults diagnosed with a mental health problem in the UK each year, 75% of who receive no treatment, these are topics everyone should be educated on. “I had no idea what depression was, I had only seen it in films. I had no idea what addiction was - I thought it was someone lying in the street with a needle in their arm - but there are so many definitions of both,” Adwoa explains.
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