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Speaker 1: James and Amanda jam Nation. Wow, that's Chris part material.

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Speaker 1: She may be the daughter of rock legend Jimmy Barnes,

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Speaker 1: but she's also a talented singer and songwriter in her

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Speaker 1: own right. We're talking about Ellie May Barnes, who has

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Speaker 1: released her debut single, that Incredible Version of Creep. She

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Speaker 1: also has an incredible story of her own overcoming challenges

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Speaker 1: she faced living with cerebral palsy. You may have seen

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Speaker 1: her on an Australian Story earlier in the week.

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Speaker 2: Ellie May, Hello, good morning, great to talk to again.

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Speaker 1: We are great, We are great. How did it come

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Speaker 1: about with Australian Story. Did you have you shied away

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Speaker 1: from telling your story before or have you all? I

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Speaker 1: know your family are big advocates for for talking about this.

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Speaker 1: Did you feel it was your time to tell the story?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Listen, I've done little pieces here and there. I've

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Speaker 3: just come to a place where I'm just really comfortable

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Speaker 3: with myself and roma and I realized that a lot

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Speaker 3: of why I've maybe shied away from going out on

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Speaker 3: my own is just I haven't really seen somebody like

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Speaker 3: myself doing it, and that maybe that maybe if I

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Speaker 3: had this platform it would be really good for me

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Speaker 3: to use it to try and show a bit of

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Speaker 3: what what people with cerebral palsy or what my experience

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Speaker 3: of selb palsy has been, and maybe feel get somebody

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Speaker 3: else to feel a little bit less alone in their experience.

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Speaker 2: Your life has been under the microscope. I remember when

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Speaker 2: you were born and the big discussion of how small

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Speaker 2: you were, and I remember your dad saying that they

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Speaker 2: could fit you in a little in a little kidney bowl,

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Speaker 2: like one of those little hospital kidney balls. And that's true.

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Speaker 3: That's how I was bathed.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you like like Thumberllina, Well I did grow? You did, Yes,

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Speaker 2: you did. No more kidney balls really made.

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Speaker 3: And it wouldn't fit.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: What we saw in that story was that just it's

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Speaker 1: so stoic. You get up and you seeing and you perform.

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Speaker 1: But even your dad said, what people don't see is

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Speaker 1: the toll it takes for you to be able to

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Speaker 1: stand up all night, to walk up onto the stage.

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Speaker 1: That there's a lot of stuff going on behind the

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Speaker 1: image there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think definitely. I think that's just how I

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Speaker 3: am in general. I mean I did that in the hospital.

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Speaker 3: I do that sort of It's just probably part of

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Speaker 3: my personality. I wouldn't say Dad's much different, to be honest,

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Speaker 3: but I don't know. I just I think that, you know,

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Speaker 3: when you love something so much, sometimes you push through

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Speaker 3: a little bit to do it. And that's just what

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Speaker 3: I have to do. But then the release that I

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Speaker 3: get from performing and from singing, and you know, that's

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Speaker 3: my outlet for any of the grief, Okay, and I

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Speaker 3: feel around it all.

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Speaker 2: And the leg surgery that you got, that is that good?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: How are you going with that?

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Speaker 3: Ah? Look, it took me a minute, but I'm doing

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Speaker 3: really well. Actually, I've worked really hard on my recovery

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Speaker 3: from that, and I slowed down eventually and we got there,

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Speaker 3: and it's doing really well at the moment.

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Speaker 1: If you hadn't been able to sing, would you been

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Speaker 1: drummed out of the family? Would you have been left

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Speaker 1: in the top of a mountain?

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Speaker 2: If you could have seen the left in your little

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Speaker 2: kidney bowl on top of the mountains, you didn't inherit

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Speaker 2: the voice?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I once did one of those tests you

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Speaker 3: do in school to say what kind of a career

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Speaker 3: you'd have, and it was really specific. It said I'd

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Speaker 3: be an entertainer or a confectioner, so I imagine I

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Speaker 3: would have been like a Willy Wonker type either options.

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Speaker 1: Pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Is it's good to be a thing? I was reading

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Speaker 2: that you actually had botox injected to stop the spasms

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Speaker 2: in your legs. You're ahead of everyone else.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so they actually originally used it for things like

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Speaker 3: cerebral palsy because it does it, but in huge doses,

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Speaker 3: like massive, massive doses, because it paralyzes muscles. That's what

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Speaker 3: it's doing.

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Speaker 1: So you have wrinkle free legs.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I have the youngest legs in town, got.

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Speaker 2: The best legs in the business. Well, Ellie May, it's

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Speaker 2: always great to talk to you. We love hearing creep.

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Speaker 2: It is so good now you can just you just

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Speaker 2: sound so good. Obviously inherited that from your mother. Well

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Speaker 2: she can sing too, of course, that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: But it's just so great, hauntingly beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Ellie May. You can get well, you don't need to

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Speaker 2: get the single you cat if you want, but.

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Speaker 1: There's an album coming out next year. Two we can

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Speaker 1: forward talk to you again.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, lovely chat to your mom and

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Speaker 3: dad said the

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Speaker 2: Love and Thanksmar and Da for us, Thanks Ellie mate,