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Antonia Horlick was 14 when she was sent to a tough wilderness camp in Utah, America by her mother Nicola Horlick, who she felt she had no option but to send Antonia to stop her taking legal drugs and behaving badly.

Antonia was taken by a stranger blindfolded, made to wear a red jumpsuit, and slept outside in the desert, without showering for three months.

She said: "You just have to learn to sit with yourself, that's the biggest thing I learnt; is that if I can't be happy with myself then I can't be happy anywhere, because your surroundings are just your surroundings."

Nicola Horlick, a successful businesswoman and mother of six has decided to speak out now to highlight what she says is the lack of help for troubled teenagers in the UK. She wants to see similar wilderness camps set up in the UK.