Drug addiction nearly cost me my life

On the floor of a prison cell, following decades of drug use, Callie Groom encountered the Holy Spirit. Transformed from the inside out, she is now the founder of Rainbow Promise, a haven for women and girls who have experienced addiction, exploitation and homelessness  

Callie’s childhood was characterised by chaos. In the terraced house on a council estate in Sunderland where she grew up, Callie would play with her toys to a backdrop of domestic abuse, police raids and drug-infused raves. It was her normal; hiding with her brother in an upstairs cupboard while chairs were thrown downstairs, or coming home from school to find her mum being held against the wall by a stranger with a knife to her neck.