When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.

I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.

When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry.

I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it - MS overall, as a subject, as a disease - there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.