Craig McLachlan's partner breaks silence over sexual harassment claims
Craig McLachlan’s partner Vanessa Scammell has broken her silence over the vicious sexual harassment claims levelled at the one-time Home and Away star, revealing she was in deep shock when she first found out about the allegations.
“All I can say is that the shock was out of this world,” Vanessa Scammell told Steve Price on 2GB on Thursday.
“It’s been a rough and savage... being an Australian (and believing) in the adage of giving people a fair go in this country just has not happened in this and there’s been such a willingness to for people to jump on this express with no due process.”
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Scammell, who is a conductor at Opera Australia, told Price she feels the allegations McLachlan sexually harassed co-stars during a 2014 production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show are false, and has never asked him if they where true.
“When it all happened the one thing I said to my girlfriend is that you know you know through all of this I didn’t even ever have to ask Craig if there was any truth in it. I didn’t have to.”
Scammell who has been McLachlan’s partner of eight years reaffirmed her commitment to stand by her man throughout the scandal, and fight to clear his name.
“We basically are determined and will do everything we can to move through this and clear his name. For everyone to realise that the person who is Craig McLachlan is not the person who has been painted.
“Craig McLachlan is not that person. He’s kind and gentle and funny … yes he’s mischievous.
“But one of his greatest assets is that he loves to make people happy and comfortable.”
McLachlan is suing the ABC, Fairfax Media and his fellow Rocky Horror Picture Show co-store Christie Wheelan-Brown over the reports which suggest he indecently touched the actress.
The lawsuit is set to return to the NSW Supreme Court on Friday.
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