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I was a really weird kid. I had this internal energy in abundance. I remember spending hours playing and staring at these little action figures, playing with animals and staring at the television too closely. I spent many hours in my own head. A lot of the other kids seemed to define themselves with things that were happening externally, while I always believed the person I am when I’m...

You may know her from Coronation Street and Loose Women but there is much more to Denise Welch than meets the eye. In an honest, uplifting interview with Happiful, Denise talks of her battles with depression and addiction. But perhaps most importantly, Denise talks of how she survived the ‘blackness’ and why she looks forward to the future. During the Happiful photoshoot, Denise...

I lost my mother and brother in a car crash when I was a child... my father married again to a woman who physically and emotionally abused my sister and I for 12 years untill we left after secondary school. We were too frightened to tell him and he didn't see it... grief I think destroyed the man and he should have had counselling. But I, now in my 40s, have started counselling after years of on...