She would cut herself at school and one day she thought about ending her life Roxy took time off school but her mental health was deteriorating. I had no idea why I’d been called in - Roxy was doing well academically. Gay: The meeting at school took place with three members of staff crammed into a small room. I needed my mum so badly, but I dreaded the thought of her hatred when she found out.
I’d known it was coming - the worst day of my life. ‘We are investigating it and going through some boys’ phones.’ ‘We know what you have been sending these older boys, Roxy,’ she said. I cannot describe how difficult it was to walk with my head held high when I knew the majority of the people I was passing had seen me naked.Īnd then one day, not long after my 14th birthday, my housemistress called me into her office. Roxy: Day by day, I knew the photos were spreading. Any attempt to probe further was met with silence. She said only that ‘everyone was being horrible’ to her. Over the next few days, her mood continued to darken.
The mistake I made was to assume the loathing was directed at me. Was I to blame for this? Roxy’s tone was often one of undisguised loathing. Roxy says that the girls backed away from her in school and the boys asked her blatant belittling questionsĬreeping hostility.
