From the age of 13 my life was on a self-destructive spiral. My days were filled with stealing cars, break and enters, alcohol and violence. I was in and out of foster homes, youth hostels and more often than not my regular place of residence was at a juvenile detention centre in Perth called Longmore.

At the age of 21, I swapped the alcohol for drugs, this was the start of an 18-year addiction to methamphetamine. My Breakaway is a walk through my life of addiction, car chases, drug raids, domestic violence, and then the grief of the devastating loss of the love of my life, the...