Gladiator: The Norm Hewitt Story

Gladiator: The Norm Hewitt Story follows All Black hooker Norm Hewitt's battle with alcoholism and his journey to redemption. After a tearful public apology became a personal "defining moment", Hewitt (Ngāti Kahungunu) reinvented himself as a youth worker and ambassador for Outward Bound. Directed by Michael Bennett, Gladiator is based on the best-selling biography of the same name by Michael Laws. In this excerpt, Hewitt visits Papatoetoe and talks with Mama Tere Strickland, who co-founded an organisation to support sex workers, and help them leave the industry.