Feeling at her lowest ebb, Samson believed nothing would ever be right. "I really thought that was it. When you're in despair, you do. God, it's too horrible. To go into despair is a funny thing and I definitely thought that Charlie's life would be better, maybe, if I wasn't in it."
"I just thought: 'My parents are perfectly good parents.' We'd go and stay with my parents in Devon and it was very stable. And I used to feel almost bad then packing him back into the car. I was almost jealous of my parents at that stage because they had a home and each other and we were living on friends' sofas."