Talking to the camera later on, she said: 'There's been a lot of history that I've forgotten about in my life and when I spoke about it, it brought it to the surface again.'īack in 2011, Fatima spoke to the Daily Mail about her childhood.įatima said: 'There's been a lot of history that I've forgotten about in my life and when I spoke about it, it brought it to the surface again' Hugging her campmates, she added: 'I think you have to have a star in every child's life.' 'What I am trying to say is that she taught me a lot about looking after the other kids and how you give and you receive - I think I have been in here too long, this is why I am getting upset.' Getting emotional, she said: 'She told me, 'Fats, I've got to be mum to all you kids, so I can't always be here''įatima struggles to contain her emotions and said: 'Sorry, I shouldn't have started that conversation.

She continued: 'And this one day I decided to pick all the daffodils and I hid them behind my back and I knocked on the door and when she opened the door, I said 'Will you be my mum?' 'I'd look out this little port window and watch when she went home because I would be really sad when she went off-duty.' So sad: She hugged her campmates as she remembered asking a staff member in her children's home to be her mother but she wasn't able to be

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