Poorna Bell
Happy Place10 Des 2018

Poorna Bell

When Poorna discovered her husband's heroin addiction, she described it as an earthquake. What followed next was unimaginable and now, several years' later, she tells Fearne about her experiences and how she has come to terms with them.

Trigger warning: contains references to suicide.

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