She was the Dolly cover girl everyone wanted to be. Golden-skinned and sparkly eyed, Alison Brahe was as well known as Elle Macpherson – but somehow more relatable. Looking back, it was clearly her smile. Wide, natural and occasionally cheeky, it made you believe that if you couldn’t actually be her, you could at least be her friend.
But what no-one knew – even those she loved most – was that behind the relaxed summer-girl image, she was grappling with a horrific secret, one that she is only now ready to share.
What happened occurred nearly 35 years ago, a few years before she married the nation’s most eligible bachelor, television host Cameron Daddo (in December 1991). It was before children, before moving to America and becoming the teacher’s assistant she is now. Yet for all the time and life that have passed, she remembers that traumatic evening in forensic detail.
She hesitated writing about it in her new memoir, , and is equally cautious as we speak via Zoom, after our planned face-toface
