Lindy Chamberlain opens up about divorce and finding love again
Her story gripped the entire nation, with Lindy Chamberlain falsely accused of murdering her own daughter leading to a wrong conviction.
But despite the tragic situation, she still had love.
In fact, two loves, the first being her husband and pastor Michael Chamberlain.
When Lindy was sent to prison, she was the mother of Aidan and Reagan, and a baby girl on the way, Kahlia, which were under the care of Michael.
But despite being wrongly accused by so many, Lindy admitted in a 2016 interview with news.com.au that “it’s my ex-husband” that’s hardest to forgive.
While many believe the hardship the couple were faced with resulted in a divorce in 1991, Lindy revealed in her autobiography Through My Eyes that wasn’t the case.
"Many thought my marriage break-up was due to the case and the additional pressures of prison and the press, but it was not."
However, former journalist and Chamberlain’s longtime friend Malcolm Brown spoke to Who, revealing the baby’s death drove a wedge between them.
"Lindy was in jail for more than three years. Mike was stuck with the two boys and Kahlia with foster parents, so there were difficulties that arose between them then."
He added, "When Lindy got out of jail she published a book in 1990 and you could see then she was critical of Michael, accusing him amongst other things of saying that she was too fat. In fact she was pregnant with Kahlia during the trial and he was accusing her of being overweight."
Michael passed away in 2017 at the age of 72 after battling acute leukaemia.
But Lindy was fortunate to find love once more, after she encountered her now husband Rick Creighton during a speaking tour of the US in 1992.
They tied the knot 10 months later after he won the approval of Aidan, Reagan and Khalia.
"I call him God's bonus at the end of all this," she told Woman's Day last year.
Lindy says Rick helped her leave the pain behind, and that she became a better person as she learnt to forgive the detectives and forensic scientists who led the witch hunt to wrongly convict her.
"Would I have chosen to learn the things I've learnt through other ways? You bet I would have. Did I want my daughter to die so I could learn to forgive? No, I did not. But am I sorry I learnt to forgive? No, I am not. You can let your mind be occupied by regrets or by vengeance or by anger or you can move on.
"It's part of your history but it doesn't have to be part of your future or your present. It's part of the foundation of who you are, but it doesn't have to be all you are. You don't forget, but your coping methods and your ability to deal with things gets better, and time helps that."