Charlotte Dawson‘s final interview will be aired on Sunday Night on 7 this weekend.
The intimate chat was filmed before Charlotte’s tragic death in February this year.
Ahead of the emotional program, Channel 7 has tweeted a frank open letter to viewers, begging us all to ‘help us help people like Charlotte’ and put an end to bullying.
Here’s that letter:
Charlotte had been working on a project before her death. It was a home wares company called Made in Bali, which is why Charlotte spent so much time in the tropical location in the last weeks of her life.
Made in Bali pillows will be made available soon with 80 per cent of the money being donated to Lifeline, Community Brave, ACON, The Smile Foundation and Angels Goals – all charities she supported for years.
Charlotte was found dead in her Sydney apartment on 22 February after a very long battle with depression. Charlotte’s many friends and admirers across media, fashion, television, mental health and anti-bullying communities continue to grieve the loss of a beautiful soul.
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I was extremely saddened when I heard of Charlotte Dawson's death but her last interview on Sunday Night made me angry and left me with an image of her as being self centred and a martyr.
Like Charlotte I also suffer depression, albeit controlled quite well with medication, and I also do not have the easiest of lives, having problems trying to make ends meet, difficulties with bringing up 2 teenage girls (one also suffering from depression) and life's general ups and downs. Unlike Charlotte I don't have the option of taking off to Bali to stay in a rich friend's luxury villa when life gets too difficult or the ability to call on rich mates to bail me out when my mortgage is overdue.
Don't get me wrong. Charlotte's life and death was very sad and it's terrible that she felt she had no other way out with her struggles with depression and the insecurities she felt about herself but nonetheless her last interview portrayed her as someone who had luxuries that most of us don't have and left me with a bitter taste in my mouth and the feeling that she was telling the world woe is me.
I read her book and watched Mia's interview and really related to her. But in the book she mentions she was asked to play the part of a mean character. Of course it was going to get the audience calling booo, like in a pantomime, she played the role of a villain.
Here's a transcript fro out-takes of talking to contestants on Australia's Top Model
From 2.14 http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn...
CHARLOTTE You’ve been Christened the Dapto Dogs, because that’s what we think of you.
TARA BROWN: 46-year-old New Zealand-born Charlotte Dawson has made a television career out of polarising her audience.
CHARLOTTE: Most of you are really bloody thick.
TARA BROWN: And she’s the master of it on ‘Australia’s Next Top Model’.
CHARLOTTE: She’s come here to see top models, and after this week, she’s seen top moles.
TARA BROWN: And ‘Celebrity Apprentice’.
CHARLOTTE: I snapped at you, Tanya, because you’re doing exactly what I told you not to do when Marion was appointed project manager
It's well known that Charlotte Dawson exhibited bullying behaviours herself on Australia's Top Model.