![]() ![]() He could have walked out of the hotel and back to his family in Australia. He could have flushed the heroin, been done with it. You know how this goes, a good looking westerner showcased to the world for all the wrong reasons. ![]() It’s hard enough growing up without a father, let alone shadowed by a man rotting in the Bang Kwang ‘Big Tiger’ prison, in Bangkok. The MALESTROM: Tell us how difficult it was like growing up with your Dad Warren being an international drug smuggler?Īdrian Simon: It’s taken me 40 years to wrap my head around the cost of my father’s crimes. Here he talks to us about his book on the subject, Milk-Blood, and how the process of its creation has helped undo the damage done and heal some very deep wounds. Indeed it was to a large degree for the child in question, Adrian Simon, who’s led a life trying to deal with the severe fallout of his father’s actions. That would be too much for many young minds to cope with. But imagine finding out at a young age that your absent father isn’t around because he’s actually a convicted international drug smuggler, convicted of trafficking heroin and locked up in a brutal Bangkok prison. Being brought up by a single parent can be a difficult start in life for a child. ![]()
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