1 00:00:02,365 --> 00:00:06,114 My first 6, 7 years were filled with movement and anxiety. 2 00:00:06,114 --> 00:00:08,440 And a lot of death and the smell of death. 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:11,958 So, when I became an adult, until now, I still try to register 4 00:00:11,958 --> 00:00:13,200 these memories that I have. 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,551 And these, you know, things that I think about 6 00:00:16,551 --> 00:00:18,868 of that a child should not think about. 7 00:00:22,108 --> 00:00:24,162 There were times when you had to leave your camp. 8 00:00:24,162 --> 00:00:26,519 Because, an attack would come. 9 00:00:26,519 --> 00:00:28,878 And then the panic of: Where are you going next? 10 00:00:28,878 --> 00:00:30,888 Everyone in my camp was like, where are you going next? 11 00:00:30,888 --> 00:00:33,228 What are we doing next? Everybody was trying to leave. 12 00:00:33,228 --> 00:00:34,524 But they don't know where they were going. 13 00:00:34,524 --> 00:00:36,386 And I just felt like, that whole refugee 14 00:00:36,386 --> 00:00:38,833 that was when I realized, that we don't have a home. 15 00:00:41,183 --> 00:00:43,505 My father was a child soldier. 16 00:00:43,505 --> 00:00:48,724 He died because of an infection from a gun. 17 00:00:48,724 --> 00:00:50,944 Back in the days, he got shot. 18 00:00:50,944 --> 00:00:52,728 The bullet was left in there. 19 00:00:52,728 --> 00:00:54,623 Because, if they took it out, he would die instantly. 20 00:00:54,623 --> 00:00:57,486 Before he died, he actually sat me down over the phone and he was telling me 21 00:00:57,486 --> 00:01:00,045 all his wishes for me and how I should just continue 22 00:01:00,045 --> 00:01:00,926 do what I want to do. 23 00:01:00,926 --> 00:01:01,786 And that's just it. 24 00:01:13,896 --> 00:01:16,835 As soon as we left, I still had a fear of 25 00:01:16,835 --> 00:01:18,706 where are we going next. 26 00:01:18,706 --> 00:01:21,249 We are probably not going to be there forever and that's just that. 27 00:01:21,249 --> 00:01:22,062 We were in a struggle. 28 00:01:22,062 --> 00:01:23,532 We were safe. We had a house. We had everything. 29 00:01:23,532 --> 00:01:26,612 But I still felt as if like there was something still coming. 30 00:01:29,362 --> 00:01:32,316 I was working at McDonald's. And I was about to leave my shift. 31 00:01:32,316 --> 00:01:33,269 And this lady stopped me and said 32 00:01:33,269 --> 00:01:35,407 'I love your face. I love your scares. Here is my card.' 33 00:01:35,407 --> 00:01:38,943 And then eventually she walked back to me and said: you want to go to Paris? 34 00:01:38,943 --> 00:01:40,227 Do you want to sign a contract? 35 00:01:40,227 --> 00:01:41,776 And I was like, Paris? Where is Paris? 36 00:01:41,776 --> 00:01:42,976 That is so far away. Where is that? 37 00:01:42,976 --> 00:01:45,974 And I did one of the biggest shows in the world in Paris. 38 00:01:53,224 --> 00:01:54,683 Sometimes I have to pinch myself. 39 00:01:54,683 --> 00:01:56,363 Like, I am here. I am really here. 40 00:01:56,363 --> 00:01:58,834 I get to wake up. I have a safe home. 41 00:01:58,834 --> 00:02:02,054 I have safe homes! I have flights on flights on flights. 42 00:02:02,054 --> 00:02:04,080 And I have a team that really believes in me. 43 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,799 I couldn't fathom this 3 or 4 years ago. 44 00:02:22,939 --> 00:02:25,286 That is probably the common ground. 45 00:02:25,286 --> 00:02:27,361 That was the subconscious thought 46 00:02:27,361 --> 00:02:29,328 that pushed me to go to Psychology. 47 00:02:29,328 --> 00:02:30,708 The fact that I have experienced it. 48 00:02:30,708 --> 00:02:33,025 I've seen it. I've watched it. I was constantly watching it. 49 00:02:33,025 --> 00:02:36,064 Because it is something that happened or is happening around me. 50 00:02:36,064 --> 00:02:40,321 So I feel like, being a refugee, your psychological state is always a matter. 51 00:02:47,201 --> 00:02:52,354 War Child and Children in Conflict, was an ode to the man I never knew, my father. 52 00:02:52,354 --> 00:02:54,472 And I felt working with them was like 53 00:02:54,472 --> 00:02:56,947 almost like working alongside people that 54 00:02:56,947 --> 00:02:58,537 would have helped my father, if he was here. 55 00:02:58,537 --> 00:03:03,106 I will help these kids that will one day be someone's father, mother. 56 00:03:03,106 --> 00:03:04,346 Or someones sister or brother. 57 00:03:04,346 --> 00:03:07,536 I will be alongside you guys, in everything you do.