Julian Assange's wife reveals she has not told children their father is freeSource: BBC Radio 4 Today
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00:00It's a whirlwind of emotions. I mean, I'm just elated. Frankly, it's just incredible.
00:06I don't know. It feels like it's not real.
00:10Have you told the children that their father is going to be free and is going to be part
00:16of the family?
00:19Not yet. All I told them was that there was a big surprise and on the morning that we
00:25left, I told them we were heading to the airport and we got on the plane and I told them that
00:30we were going to visit our family, their cousin, their grandfather and so on. And they still
00:40don't know. They've never seen him outside of Belmarsh. All their interactions with Julian
00:47have been in a single visitor's room inside Belmarsh prison. It's always been for a little
00:55more than an hour at a time. It's been very restrictive. You know, he can't walk around.
01:01He can't go to the tuck shop. He wasn't able to go to the tuck shop and buy a chocolate
01:09or anything. You see, I still have to change my tenses now. It's been so long that I'm
01:18not used to talking about Julian free in the present.