"I am lucky to be here": Julie Goodwin opens up on childhood trauma
Julie Goodwin has opened up about the childhood abuse she experienced in her latest memoir.
The 53-year-old MasterChef Australia star wrote about how she was sexually abused as a child and later attempted suicide as a teenager in her autobiography, Your Time Starts Now.
Speaking to The Australian Women's Weekly, Goodwin recalled how the memory of the abuse which she had buried for a long time returned when she was 16.
"Nothing triggered it, it was just like the memory was always there, like a dusty book on a library shelf," she said.
"And one day I took it down and looked at it and went, 'Holy crap, how have I not thought about that for nine years?'"
Goodwin, however kept the resurfaced memory to her self and maintained an excellent academic record at high school, even becoming school captain, until a year later when she attempted suicide at the age of 17.
She shared that following her hospitalisation, she returned to school a few days later and acted as if nothing serious had happened.
The TV star then opened up on her road to recovery and the tremendous amount of help she received from her husband Mick, who gave her the love and support she needed.
"I am living my second life," she told Women's Weekly.
"I am lucky to be here."
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