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Maddy Kitchen

Maddy Kitchen

Filmmaker and Creative Director of Recovery Street Film Festival; founder of Sobriety Films UK, a social enterprise using film to support addiction and mental health recovery.

Jun 29, 2026

RichardHOST
34:46
So how long are you clean?
34:48
I surrendered on the 2nd of August, 2006.
34:51
So since that day, I've always been in surrender.
34:55
I have relapsed twice and I always talk about that because, you know, that's been part of my journey and nobody chooses that.
35:02
You know, it's awful, but you can come back from it.
35:06
My story is also mental health.
35:08
So from the age of like 19, I developed very severe depression and then I began self-medicating with alcohol.
RichardHOST
37:34
So tell me what that's actually about and what that looks like in Leicester this year.

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