Annasophia Calman told the Royal Commission of Inquiry into state and faith-based care that because of the abuse she doesn't know who she really is.
Mrs Calman shared with the Commission the harrowing details of her violent family home publicly for the first time.
"Nothing in our cupboards, beaten by our father while he was drunk and we had to be eating out of rubbish bins to survive."
She told the inquiry it wasn't just physical violence she had to endure.
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