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Samantha Morton opens up about her 'complex' childhood in care and reveals she made herself homeless as a teenager to feel 'safer'

Samantha Morton opened up about her tough childhood in care during Comic Relief's Red Nose Day on Friday.

Samantha expressed her anger in 2020 at how society treats women with mental health issues, particularly when discussing her relationship with her mother, Pamela, who died of cancer in 2018. Samantha added: 'I think when I used to go and see her at the occasional weekend, I'd run away to her all the time, my clothes always smelt clean, she'd use comfort and she'd give me bubble baths. She has also starred in hit films such as Minority Report with Tom Cruise and the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them and played a brothel owner in the BBC2 drama Harlots.

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