Carol Vorderman Quotes

I have a very non-existent, dysfunctional relationship with my biological mother.

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didn't exist.

My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

My stepfather was fond of letting me know, quote, 'I ain't your... damn daddy.' That was something that was painful, to put it mildly.

I feel betrayed by own mother.

My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he'd impersonate me.

I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

The real demon in my life is my father.

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.

And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

I found out when I was 18 that Dad had left my mother and the family before he realised he was ill and then died. When I asked Mum about it, she just sort of shrugged it off and said she'd thought I knew about it all along. Of course I hadn't, though I'm sure she must have been desperately unhappy at the time.

Moms and dads don't last forever. If you've got unfinished business, we need to face that, and that's not easy. Every child wants to love their mother and their father. Love is the most important thing, and when they feel rejected and unloved, that hole can never be filled by anyone else.

I choose not to see my parents because I value myself - and they didn't value me or my mind.

I love my son, but I was never there for him, so I understand why he hates me.

I built up so much hatred for my parents, like so much anger for the life they had given me.

All my mother ever wanted to talk about was what she hated about my father and the times he cheated on her when he was younger. It really irritated me, and I told them they had to sort things out between themselves. Looking back on that, I see that it was really cold of me as a son.