Richard Wilkins' heartbreaking interview regret
Richard Wilkins has revealed the one heartbreaking question he wished he had asked Charlotte Dawson the day before her passing.
In a recent interview for his series Dickie's Diaries the usually upbeat Nine Entertainment reporter sat in a moment of silence before he answered the interviewer’s question: What’s the one question you wished you’d asked?
"The one question I wish I'd asked was to my friend," Wilkins began, repeating the question, pausing briefly before saying her name "Charlotte Dawson".
"Charlotte used to come on the Today show a lot.
"She always used to come into my dressing room at the old Channel Nine studios in Sydney. We'd always have a good old chat about stuff,” he said.
He shared the conversation they had in February 2014 and the moment that has weighed on his mind since.
"She said 'what are you doing on the weekend' and I said 'I'm going up to see Bruce Springsteen play in the Hunter Valley. It's going to be fantastic', I said. 'I can't wait to get up there',"
"Charlotte took her life the next day which still makes my... shivers go up my spine... I had a spare ticket and I wish I'd said to her 'do you want to come?'
"You just wonder whether, had she got out of the space she was in, taken a leap of faith, maybe things would have turned out differently."
The New Zealand-Australian model and TV personality was found dead in her home in Woolloomooloo on February 22, 2014.
Dawson had depression for over a decade and was only 47 when she passed. She had opened up about her struggle in an interview in 2012.
"When you work in a public environment like the media, you do have to have a thick skin," she said.
"And no matter what you do, people are still going to hate you just because they think you're ugly or because they don't like the sound of your voice."
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