Veteran Australian TV journalist Liz Hayes has always preferred to keep her private life just that – but it became increasingly difficult during a decade-long period in which she divorced three times.
Liz Hayes has always preferred to keep her private life just that – but it became increasingly difficult when she divorced three times in a decade.
Hayes, 67, opens up about that tumultuous time in her life in a podcast interview to accompany her feature in the latest issue ofHayes had married her first husband Brian, a builder in her hometown of Taree, in the late 70s when she was 21 years old. They split in the mid-80s, around the time she was appointed co-host of theThen came a brief marriage in February 1991, to Australian entrepreneur John Singleton.
“It was a crap time. Let’s face it, these things are not great. And it’s magnified. It becomes bigger than Ben Hur,” Hayes told“You’re looking at yourself. You’re reading about yourself. You’re noting that the view of you is pretty grim, so you come away thinking, I am pretty grim, I’m a bit of a failure on that front – and people are writing that,” she said.
She confessed it felt “soul destroying” to see the attention her string of failed marriages had garnered.“You could go knock on everybody’s door and say, ‘Well, can I give you a bit of backstory?’ You can’t do that, so you just have to accept that that’s the deal. But frankly, it’s a bit soul destroying to have seemingly the world telling you, ‘Yep, you’re a dud.’“It’s hard. I defy anybody, and those people who write those stories, to sit there and hear and see that written about them.
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