'Through the little slits in the curtain, we can see the position of their legs and which way they're facing,' Mr Lawrence told the program on Sunday night. 'She ran out of a caf on the corner in Potts Point in Sydney. Attempting to explain the outburst,Scammell told the interviewers: 'He's been abandoned by everybody. Actor Craig McLachlan is set to return to performing, more than 3 years after allegations surrounding The Rocky Horror Show in 2014 made headlines.. McLachlan will star as Hank Williams in a one man play, Nobody Lonesome For Me, to be directed by Terry Serio in Adelaide later this year. McLachlan went on to admit that he did eventually attempt suicide, but by chance, he was unsuccessful. Treasure them. The former Neighbours star, 55 broke his silence in an explosive interview with 7NEWS Spotlight a week ago following his acquittal from sexual harassment charges in December. This could be evidence that there was a clear agenda in exposing the McLachlan allegations, but it could also have been a pragmatic line of conversation with the victims that by coming out, they were protecting other women from the actor's alleged behaviour. In an email to the ABC at the time, he strenuously denied all the allegations, saying: "Frankly, they seem to be simple inventions, perhaps made for financial reasons, perhaps to gain notoriety. 'Irresponsible': Rape survivors' advocates Louise Nicholas and HELP The woman, I kid you not, [she was] shielding her children from me as I walked past. Craig McLachlan has shared shocking footage of the moment he contemplated taking his own life. ", For those watching Ch7 - here's the pertinent final comments to consider from the judge's ruling on the case.Consider these as you watch. The 55-year old actor is now suing the ABC, Fairfax (now part of Nine) and an actress for defamation over 2018 reports that he indecently assaulted, harassed and bullied his fellow cast members. The Channel 7 interview, which aired on Sunday night, was Mr McLachlan's first interview since his acquittal. TVNZ said the focus of the documentary was McLachlan's "trial by media and the impact this had on his. Lorna Knowles from ABC Investigations reports.ABC News provides around the clock coverage of news events as they break in Australia and abroad, including the latest coronavirus pandemic updates. Picture: Channel 7 'Crucifixion was so brutal' The 55-year-old sat down with Seven to tell his side of a story which had dominated headlines since 2018 media allegations and when he was charged in 2019. This was after he said he lost one phone and destroyed another. He has been involved in film, television, the music industry and music theatre for over 30 years. May 17, 2021 - 3:24PM. For more from Clare Stephens, you can follow her on Instagram. Him stating, a post Weinstein, #MeToo world gone mad made me so ill. Without context, this footage is confusing. A member of the crew commented with words to the effect of 'Come on Craig, we need to get this shot'. I was public enemy number one. Hayes felt uncomfortable and a number of further takes were required to complete the scene as a result of McLachlan's conduct. 'Suddenly, I'm this monstrous, rogue, individual, who goes and grabs people on the vagina. 'I could name the supermarket. But like most of this show, thepointis buried in the distraction of performance. But once McLachlan argues thatthose remarks were just a result of the 'Vinestein' context (he really does say Vinestein instead of Weinstein, as in Harvey Weinstein, at one point), we move on to the issue that upsets him the most: the friend who betrayed him. He says he remembers thinking he'd never hear people cheering for him again. #craigmclachlan #channel7, aussiechic ???????????? Image: Seven. Mr McLachlan, 55, had consistently denied seven charges. According to the ABC, just 24 hours prior to the release of the Channel 7 interview, McLachlan was hit with fresh allegations of sexual harassment and bullying on the set of The Doctor Blake Mysteries TV series, as well as during The Rocky Horror Show. The result was an entirely bizarre and unhelpful 90-minutes of television. Mr McLachlan, who was in the middle of shooting a scene, ran outside to follow her. "Wouters initially tried to brush it off by jovially saying 'don't be silly'. In 2014, Ms Samson filmed with Mr McLachlan for season 3 of Dr Blake Mysteries. On the Sunday night, before the 7.30 Report ran on Monday January 8, 2018, McLachlan says he stood on stage at the Rocky Horror Show and heard the crowd's cheers. 'I didn't touch her vagina, that's the important thing,' McLachlan told the program. McLachlan was cleared of seven counts of indecent assault and six counts of common law assault in December . The broadcaster reportedly paid McLachlan more than $200,000 to air the diary later this month, along with an exclusive interview. pasquale antonio (@pas3p3) May 10, 2021. log'. And Seven didn't ask. Watch McLachlan v ABC We address allegations an ABC producer 'coached' Craig McLachlan's female accusers during a TV interview. The document, released to the ABC this week by the NSW Supreme Court, details fresh claims by actresses Tamzen Hayes and Anna Samson, who played opposite Mr McLachlan in The Doctor Blake Mysteries, and Teagan Wouters, who played Janet in The Rocky Horror Show. The interviewer touches - verybriefly - on Magistrate Belinda Wallington's comments that McLachlan was not an impressive witness, and that the complainants were "strong, credible and reliable". I made some miscalculations in weight and how I attempted to deal with things. Except for me and our close team. The jury did not get to hear these exchanges, including this one from Jarratt to McLachlan. Image: Seven. Image: Seven. Raw interview tapes show journalists coaching responses from women Yes, I mucked in with the rest of them, I tried to give as good as I got. Arrogance and entitlement finally caught up with McLachlan Whats the actresss name, Ill get onto it ASAP. A woman, whose faceis blurred, is instructed by a producer to say something along the lines of, "he (McLachlan) is a big star, he has clout.". Ms Wallington said it was McLachlan's 'egotistical self entitled sense of humour' that led him to believe at least one of his alleged victim's would either not mind or find his behaviour funny. "Craig is in a world of trying to put his life together. 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He added, In this post-Weinstein, #MeToo world gone mad, I cant win. She felt that McLachlan would have known that she felt very uncomfortable and seemed to be enjoying that fact. Channel 7's airing of McLachlan interview was 'irresponsible' | The Craig McLachlan on Seven's Spotlight program. McLachlan v ABC - Media Watch - Media Watch - Media Watch The thing that Im alleged to have done to my friend, a visibly emotional McLachlan says. I'll write a long letter make sure Nessie and my son, my family, are looked after. McLachlan: I was hoping yours would be. The defence document alleges that during the scene, Mr McLachlan continued to whisper further comments to the effect that Ms Hayes was beautiful. It's news when you want it, from Australia's most trusted news organisation.For more from ABC News, click here: https://ab.co/2kxYCZYWatch more ABC News content ad-free on iview: https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1Go deeper on our ABC News In-depth channel: https://ab.co/2lNeBn2Like ABC News on Facebook: http://facebook.com/abcnews.auFollow ABC News on Instagram: http://instagram.com/abcnews_auFollow ABC News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/abcnews#ABCNews #ABCNewsAustralia Seven "I want the world to know that I am sitting here today 100 per cent acquitted. Backlash against actor Craig McLachlan and Channel 7 erupted on Twitter hours before a scheduled tell-all interview on Sunday night, which continued during its screening. McLachlan in his evidence agreed he had brought sexual jokes and pranks to The Rocky Horror Show, including deep-throating bananas and pretending to masturbate crew members arms. OPINION | No winners in Craig McLachlan tell-all - TV Blackbox First, she praised the accusers as "brave and honest witnesses". Mr McLachlan first appeared on Australian television screens 34 years ago in 1987 as Henry Ramsay on Neighbours. The fresh support from Mr Lawrence emerged a week after McLachlan has shared shocking footage of the moment he contemplated taking his own life. I could tell this had shattered him., Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning. Rather than just a sit-down interview, McLachlan appears to have recorded his journey throughout the trial where he was accused of assault and indecent assault charges dating back to 2014. The document, released to the ABC this week by the NSW Supreme Court, details fresh allegations by three actresses, as well as allegations that he bullied and intimidated The Rocky Horror Show co-star Tim Maddren. 'From my point of view from where he was positioned at that particular time, he could not move across because at that time, theprosthetic leg was passed through and then passed back. When he reached her,he said words to the effect of "I didn't get to say goodbye to you properly", held her face and started to kiss her with an open mouth. McLachlan's media manager Grant Vandenberg said overseas . It happens to men who journalists methodically gather a bunch of reliable sources to speak out against. Qantas chief Alan Joyce to retire as new CEO named, This must end: Radical plan to stop children vaping, King Charles coronation is almost upon us. McLachlan took aim at the #MeToo campaign, saying the climate it had created forced people to support women. Not only did we continue to work together, we continued to work together and have, and I'm speaking for me 'You know, we had a great time together in 2016. The explosive interview with Craig McLachlan, acquitted . I can't win. When was the last time I woke up in the morning and smiled?'. Craig McLachlan sat down with Channel 7 for a tell-all interview after being acquitted of sexual harassment allegations. Hayes was wearing underwear and covered by a sheet. As the contested hearing at theMelbourneMagistrates' Court drew to an end, it was heard McLachlan's defence had submitted 160 pages denying the allegations. One of the many performance scenes in Seven's special. Craig McLachlan tells all in explosive interview after allegations McLachlan later stormed of of the interview in tears, after claiming he had remained friends with one of his accusers for years after the alleged assault. Craig McLachlan's bombshell admission on Channel Seven - 7NEWS It's as though Craig McLachlan is trying to be Jean Valjean from Les Miserables,except the plot is about being accused of indecent assault and how hard that was for him. 'There's an en suite and dunny down the end. McLachlan had maintained his alleged sexual offending while working on the production was no more inappropriate than a cricketer giving a teammate a pat on the bum. ", The defence document also alleges that in a different scene, Ms Hayes was required to stand on a ladder and take a painting off the wall. On the eve of that program, which aired in May 2021, McLachlan was busy exchanging text messages with fellow actor John Jarratt. McLachlan says he has not worked in three years, but revealed he will next appear in a one-man show about the life of country singer Hank Williams in South Australia. McLachlan says he hasn't worked since, and tells a story about how the day after 7.30 aired, a woman shielded her children from him in a shop. Craig McLachlan, second from left, has acted in Australian shows including Neighbours. Over an hour and a half, Seven aired an interview with the actor and his partner, pianist and conductor Vanessa Scammel, alongside diary-style footage taken over the last few years, about the serious criminal charges that (almost) cost him his career. Nonetheless,before each ad break, viewers were also shown the words 'Horror Show' up in lights with a sting of horror music, so the producers clearly wanted that concept interwoven. In this post-Weinstein hashtag-me-too world-gone-mad, I can't win,' he said. In the industry everyone loved him including myself, he said. "Well, there was a fire," he says. The whole world is sick of this pathetic bullshit. Starts at 60 is just for over-60s. In the last week, more allegations against McLachlan have surfaced. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. The document alleges in 2008, Mr McLachlan harassed 22-year-old Josie Steele who was working as a runner on the TV show City Homicide. 'Let's just say that I miscalculated. Sign up here. Copyright 2023 The New Daily. Despite his acquittal, the heat remains on Mr McLachlan. A January 2018 report by Fairfax and the ABC first reported allegations McLachlan had been accused of sexually harassing several actresses. Under the heading'Sexual harassment of Wouters', the document alleges that during the Melbourne leg of the tour, Mr McLachlan entered her dressing room and sat on the edge of a couch while Wouters sat at a dressing table. The Herald and the ABC spent months investigating the claims and corroborating the facts. I saw Craig standing there with a banana.. What? She felt very awkward and uncomfortable about her interaction with McLachlan for the entire trip. 15:28 BST 23 May 2021 "He also moved as if to tickle her. The f**k I am!' Email:sign up for ourdaily morning and afternoon email newsletters, App:download our free appand never miss the biggest stories, Social:follow us on YouTube,TikTok,Instagram,FacebookorTwitter, Podcast:listen to our daily episodes onApple Podcasts,Spotifyor search "Full Story" in your favourite app. It's unclear whether it's evidence of the ABC 'coaching' victims, or simply a producer helping a woman paraphrase what she's been trying to say. We all had a stick in that fire, me included. Just because the court designed by men doesn't always reach this finding, the court of women knows the truth and acts accordingly. In either event, they are to the best of my knowledge utterly and entirely false.". And waves. McLachlan said the ordeal made him contemplate suicide, revealing that he contemplated the unthinkable my family would be better off without me. As McLachlan and his partner retell a story about one of the alleged victims rushing out of a cafe to hug them and say how good it was to see them - just six weeks before the allegations would come out - I notice something. The log was fashioned into a low, rustic bench located alongside a waterway with a notoriously strong current. It doesnt matter where you live, they will take your call and, if need be, refer you to a service closer to home. When news broke that he would be criminally charged for the allegations, he checked into a mental hospital. Seven Network's tell-all interview with actor Craig McLachlan found not guilty of seven indecent assault charges in December was the fourth-most watched program on . ", 'In this post-Weinstein hashtag-me-too world-gone-mad, I can't win.'. [Like I'm] some kind of dirty paedophile? Craig McLachlan first appeared on Australian television in a guest role on The Young Doctors. In a 105 page decision, Melbourne Magistrate Belinda Wallington found McLachlan not guilty of all charges. The new allegations by Ms Hayes are that Mr McLachlan sexually harassed her when she was playing the role of a corpse and gave her an unwanted, open-mouthed kiss during filming of season two of the Dr Blake Mysteries in 2014. The former Neighbours star sat there and contemplated taking his own life, six months after facing sexual harassment allegations from his former co-stars in a popular musical. , updated The one I worked with for two years? Shame on @Channel7 for giving Craig McLachlan a tell-all platform, framing him as the victim after several accusations of sexual assault. This was not as scripted or directed.". 'And I think, after three and a half years, after not being able to speak, the ability to actually let it out' she trailed off, before nodding when asked if it was 'too much'. Craig McLachlan in a promo for his exclusive interview with Channel 7 Bias is a funny thing. To prepare for his criminal trial, McLachlan filmed videos at home re-enacting how the scene was played, showing the proportions of the bed set 'to the centimetre', including the height of bed doona. The helplessness of being accused and feeling as though you have no recourse to clear your name. McLachlan continues to protest his innocence and claims his accuser continued to text him for four years after the production ended. ''We could compare Craig to Harvey Weinstein.' Outrage over bizarre Channel 7 interview with Craig McLachlan. Watch, Stream & Catch Up with your favourite 7NEWS Spotlight: Craig McLachlan episodes on 7plus. 16:52 BST 16 May 2021 In six weeks' time [to know what] she had planned.'. As Craig McLachlan's "Tell-All" Went To Air, Fresh Allegations Against Craig McLachlan sits down for first tell-all interview after being He explains that "this girl actively maintained and pursued a friendship," after he worked with her on Grease, and then the Rocky Horror Show. "The plaintiff has been greatly injured,his business, personal and professional reputation will be brought into public disrepute, odium, ridicule and contempt," the statement says. You're referring to that girl?' Mr McLachlan was not part of the scene and was asked to attend hair and makeup. The document, released to the ABC this week by the NSW Supreme Court, also alleges that Mr McLachlan bullied and intimidated actor Tim Maddren, who played the role of Brad in The Rocky Horror Show. Craig McLachlan sexually harassed three more actresses, bullied - ABC As even a 100 percent acquitted, innocent man, I feel I I continue to be f**ked over, day, after day, after day, by our friend. Complaints about McLachlans behaviour to the shows production company, The Gordon Frost Organisation, had been greeted with the threats of defamation and when the womens complaints were made directly to McLachlan, he used his position as the star of the show to threaten them that he would make sure they never worked again. Channel 7 is facing a backlash over its airing of a tell all interview with actor Craig McLachlan. Five months after being acquitted of multiple indecent assault charges, more actors have come forward accusing Craig McLachlan of sexual harassment. He and Scammell claimed that female accusers were jealous of his success and that he was portrayed as some dirty paedophile, recalling the heartbreaking moment when a mother ushered her children away from him in the supermarket. or Won't I? 13:43 BST 17 May 2021. Craig McLachlan Net Worth 2022, Age, Wife, Children, Height - Apumone The 7NEWS Spotlight documentary will be the first time Craig McLachlan has spoken publicly since he was dropped from the Channel 7 drama series The Doctor Blake Mysteries in 2018.. McLachlan's career came to a halt after several female cast members on the 2014 . The actor is now suing the ABC, Fairfax and an actress for defamation over the 2018 reports. Broadcast: Mon 31 May 2021, 8:50pm Published: Mon 31 May 2021, 9:22pm More Information Judgment, Magistrate's Court of Victoria, R v McLachlan, 15 December, 2020 Transcript The defence document details claims that when Tim Maddren, played opposite Mr McLachlan in The Rocky Horror "Brad bed scene", Mr McLachlan started a joke where he would take Mr Maddren's finger and simulate masturbation of it and pretend to give it oral sex. And then I'll do what I have to do. The ABC's defence document details further claims of a third actress, Teagan Wouters, who alleges that when she played Janet in The Rocky Horror Show, Mr McLachlan, who played the starring role of Frank-n-Furter, kissed down the front of her stomach during a bedroom scene and asked her for kisses in her dressing room. (I thought) How am I gonna survive this?, RELATED: Lewd footage of Craig McLachlan airs in court. The backlash to the interview erupted on social media even before it was broadcast, and continued as it aired. 'This girl actively maintained and pursued a friendship. The one I worked with for two years? ", "Hope your lives are good. The revelations come on the eve of a Channel 7 documentary "Horror Show" featuring Mr McLachlan, in which the actor denies allegations that he sexually harassed another three female co-stars in the 2014 stage production of The Rocky Horror Show. If you think you may be experiencing depression or another mental health problem, please contact your general practitioner. The defamation trial had been postponed until the criminal proceedings in Melbourne finished and is now expected to proceed. Mr McLachlan also said at the time he never had any romantic interest in a female cast member and never made any unwanted advances to any cast members during the show. The explosive interview with Craig McLachlan, acquitted of serious criminal charges that cost him his career. he continued. Since we live in a legal system, not a justice system, we women need to make our own rules. Youre going to defam the C---s so theyre going to chuck everything at you. A voiceover of a young woman tells us, "back before the allegations that changed everything, life for Craig McLachlan and his longtime partner, Vanessa Scammell, was perfect.".

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