Brave Lanarkshire woman speaks out on self-harm after years of torment
to have her gashed arms stitched. Now a mum to Tyler, eight, the aptly named two-year-old Hope, and one-year-old Lochlan, Charlotte has re-assessed her mum’s decision to protect her from the truth about her dad’s death.“How do you explain to a wean how a man, a father, a parent was able to do that? How do you explain why he is no longer there? It must have been so hard for my mum, but I didn’t see it that way at the time,” admits Charlotte, who says her dad’s note proves that his final thoughts were of her.“We all need to talk about how we feel.