Who is Prince William's sidekick in ITV documentary to end homelessness? Dr Sabrina Cohen Hatton became a firefighter and earned a PhD after becoming homeless at 15

She advises Prince William connected his run to extremity homelessness and features successful nan Prince of Wales' caller ITV documentary astir his quest.

But earlier meetings pinch royalty astatine Windsor Castle, Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, 41, was surviving connected nan streets of Wales aged conscionable 15, pursuing a heartbreaking puerility successful which her begetter died erstwhile she was nine.

With her mother struggling 'terribly' pinch her intelligence wellness and 'unable to cope' pinch her family's 'abject poverty', Sabrina turned to trading nan Big Issue astatine nan property of 17 to scrape a living. 

For her, it was nan turning constituent that 'saved her life' and led her into a profession successful nan occurrence service, wherever she flourished becoming Britain's youngest female occurrence chief.

In 2023, she was appointed nan Prince of Wales' ambassador for his Homewards project. She features successful her domiciled connected tonight's 'Prince William: We Can End Homelessness', which gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look astatine nan first twelvemonth of nan programme.

Speaking up of nan two-part documentary, neuroscientist Sabrina praised nan royal's committedness to 'listening to group who person been location truthful we tin effort and do things that are really practical'.

She told This Morning yesterday: 'He's astonishing and I'm 1 of respective advocates, we've each sewage our ain acquisition of homelessness aliases we've been touched by homelessness successful immoderate way.

'One of nan things he was really keen connected was making judge that he's listening to group who person been location truthful we tin effort and do things that are really practical.

'Every clip I've met nan prince, he has been truthful focused connected nan quality effect of homelessness and I deliberation it's really easy erstwhile you're trying to do a programme arsenic large arsenic this and a situation arsenic large arsenic ending homelessness to conscionable attraction connected nan strategy and hide astir nan people. 

'But he's truthful focused connected nan trauma and nan complexity and nan effect connected individuals and that for maine has been a existent privilege to beryllium capable to spot that successful action.'

The heir to nan throne launched his astir eager nationalist task to day past year, inspired by nan bequest of his precocious mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who began taking him to shelters arsenic a young child.

Homelessness has soared successful caller years pinch 100,000 families successful impermanent accommodation - affecting 144,000 children - and almost 4,000 group sleeping unsmooth each night.

But those looking to tackle it judge it tin beryllium combatted pinch a joined-up attack that stops group and families falling done nan nett successful nan first place.

Homewards is simply a five-year task based astir six areas astir nan UK. That includes Newport successful South Wales - wherever a 15-year-old Sabrina utilized to slumber unsmooth aft nan decease of a genitor and problems astatine home.

Describing her trauma surviving connected nan street, Sabrina wrote successful nan Big Issue: 'My begetter died erstwhile I was 9 and I was successful a single-parent family pinch a mum who recovered it incredibly difficult to header and struggled terribly pinch her intelligence health. 

'We lived successful abject poorness for respective years arsenic a result. When personification goes to warfare pinch their demons, everyone astir them gets deed by nan shrapnel.

'We were successful a really volatile business by nan clip I was 15, a situation constituent wherever it was conscionable excessively much. My mum loved maine dearly but she didn’t person nan capacity to beryllium capable to look aft maine properly. It was past that I started to slumber rough.'

Sabrina was successful nan mediate of her GCSEs erstwhile she took nan determination to unrecorded connected nan streets. 

She would stash her books successful a container successful a derelict building aft studying connected nan thoroughfare - arsenic she was fearful that asking for a schoolhouse locker would 'alert societal services' and plunge her family deeper into crisis. 

However, her books were yet torn isolated by a 'proper neo-Nazi skinhead', who saw her surname Cohen connected her gramma book and attacked Sabrina.

'He put retired a cigaret retired connected my arm. He really went to municipality connected me. It was a horrible experience. After that I kept my books successful a container successful nan Big Issue office. And I kept studying. I deliberation I saw qualifications arsenic a summons retired of there,' recalled Sabrina.

She credited nan Big Issue pinch 'saving her life', arsenic it led to her uncovering unafraid accommodation and past joining nan occurrence service. 

She became West Sussex's occurrence main successful 2019, aged 36, and was 1 of conscionable six females successful nan UK to clasp nan title - arsenic good arsenic being nan youngest.

The mother-of-one, who now has a PhD, has spoken wide astir her ain journey, telling nan Lorraine programme successful 2019: 'I spent truthful galore years hiding it and pretending it didn't happen, it was nan astir difficult thing.

'But location are thousands of group who are successful nan aforesaid position coming arsenic I was backmost then, and I wanted to beryllium capable to show these group "your circumstances do not specify you, they don't find wherever you extremity up, only you can"'. 

While homeless, Sabrina lived successful a derelict building and said she had to fend disconnected strangers' attacks. She said she erstwhile woke up to personification urinating connected her. 

But she ne'er gave up connected herself. 'I deliberation everyone's sewage a spark wrong them,' she said, 'it conscionable depends what you find to substance nan fire.'

'I could spot group each astir maine who would went consecutive downhill aliases wouldn't survive. I wanted to beryllium capable to do thing to thief different group erstwhile they're emotion vulnerable.

'And that's what attracted maine to nan occurrence service, because I knew what it felt to beryllium having that worst time of your life,' she explained.

Sabrina joined nan occurrence work successful Risca erstwhile she was 18. And while she's faced immoderate shape of sexism, she said her acquisition was acold much affirmative than negative.

'I would beryllium doing a disservice by pretending it [sexism] didn't happen, but I deliberation what I would opportunity is, I had acold much affirmative experiences successful nan occurrence work than antagonistic experiences,' she said.

She said she considered her coworkers arsenic 'big brothers,' and said they took her 'on nan spot of who they believed [she] could be.'

Sabrina said she was thankful for her astonishing career. In parallel, she besides studied nan neuroscience of determination making nether pressure.

Talking astir what motivated her to study nan discipline, she said it was an incident that 'changed everything' that led her to nan role.

She recalled she was erstwhile called to a segment of an incident were a chap firefighter had been severely burned.

The unfortunate could either beryllium 1 of her coworkers and friends, aliases her then-boyfriend, who besides worked arsenic a firefighter successful a neighbouring position and was 1 of nan 4 firefighter coming successful nan motortruck astatine nan clip of nan accident.

'I retrieve going to this incident emotion beautiful judge personification I loved had been injured, and I recovered that highly difficult to woody with,' she said.

While her boyfriend, who she later married, ended up unscathed, she had to be to nan terrible injuries of 1 of her friends instead.

'So arsenic overmuch I had this consciousness of relief, I past felt incredibly guilty, for specified a agelong time,' she admitted, 'I felt for illustration a horrible personification for emotion relieved.'

Sabrina past decided to move her guilt into helping others. 'I started looking astatine what caused firefighter injury, and I was amazed to find that nan mostly of nan clip it's quality error.

'And that's erstwhile I started looking into what we could do to trim quality error,' she went on.

Sabrina now has a PHD, and is simply a honorary chap astatine Cardiff University. She features successful tonight's ITV documentary, 'Prince William: We Can End Homelessness'.

The movie will impact stories from those who are presently experiencing homelessness aliases person antecedently been homeless, and poignant memories from nan prince's ain life. 

Cameras started rolling successful June past twelvemonth erstwhile nan Prince launched his task Homewards.