Did anyone here have have their house bugged when they where children so that conversations you might have had were recorded without you knowing ?

My father did that so that he could wina divorce battle with my mother.

I remember him playing recording of my mum in his range rover when i was 8 years old. The recording was my mum speaking after she had had a drink - my mum was slowly becoming an alcoholic. and he told me “you are going to need to choose who you want to live with, and this will be one of the most important decisions you ever make.”

I made the wrong decision. I chose to live with him.

To be fair to him he sent me to a very good school between the ages of 11 and 14.

I had always said i wanted to be a doctor as a kid… but at this school i did some drama classes and the teacher there thought I had a natural ability for it and could get my fees paid for by a scholarship.

but nothing came of it and we went to the state school.

as got in with the wrong crowd trying to fit in my studies slipped, and the idea of becoming a doctor became an unrealistic one.

when it got to the end of the 1st year of sixth form… i was so appalled with my results that i asked the school if i could drop down a year a do it again. they said yes.

as a result i managed to get my A in maths A-level which was all i cared about… and that sent me to KCL.

I remember being about 5 years old when my mum told me that Mummy and Daddy weren’t going to live together anymore. I wanted to be upset immediately but just before i started to cry my mum said “i don’t want you to be upset… and she gave me some logical reasons why it would be best” and that was that.

I know i didn’t want it to happen but I accepted it.

At school it became a bit of a badge of honour in playground.

My father was also a big deal. My dad was a millionaire. My dad has a helicopter. My dad was the strongest - and that was no joke. My father is a fraction taller than me but he was incredibly strong.

y know it took me until my mid thirties to reflect on what a strange thing it was of my father to make those recordings.

I don’t have any contact with my father. I think in the past 10 years we may have said only a few sentences to each other.

Some of my family do.