The sisters lived with their dad until Margaret was released, then when Juliet was 16, she left home and moved to Finland, before moving to Canada in her thirties – something that she describesit as ‘clearly a pattern in my life of running away’.
It wasn’t the first time, but the first Juliet had experienced after she came home to find the bathroom reeking of vomit and her mother absent.
In August 2022, Juliet asked her mother, who often complained of feeling lonely and isolated, to come and stay in Canada with her.
‘I think I might even have laughed because it was just so preposterous to me,’ Juliet, 58, tells Metro over Zoom from her home in Canada.
Just a few hours later, Juliet lay in the emergency room feeling recovered from her panic attack and ready to go home.
