Aussie radio host Robin Bailey has revealed she had an affair prior to the suicide of her late husband Tony Smart.
Opening up in an interview with QWeekend before the release of her tell-all memoir, Flamingoes Aren’t Born Pink, the KIIS FM Brisbane radio host talked about the effect of the affair on her late husband and their sons’ reactions, after they found out about it following their dad’s death in 2014.
Bailey explained she and Smart had separated but were “still living in the house together” when she began the affair.
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“I’m not making excuses, I’m just explaining,” she said, “I think everyone should question what their own moral compass is on that.
“Because a lot of people have affairs, not everyone’s ends like mine does, but the feelings are the same. The betrayal, the anger.
“In my space it had dire consequences and I think people will harshly judge me and I think there are a lot of people that will probably see me very differently and that’s their right. But it is the truth.”
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She then recalled the moment she had to tell her sons – Fin, now 25, Lewin, now 23, and Piper – now 21 the truth.
“It was not okay, it was hard. Like watching their eyes be so disappointed and also them joining the dots. This is why Dad did it,” she said of her then-teenage sons.
“Now, I know they don’t think that now because we’ve had many conversations, but I start the book, it’s a reason. And probably the number one reason in Tony’s mind, we’ll never know. But I’m not gonna sit here and just pretend that, you know, if I hadn’t have done that, would he have ended his life? I don’t know that either.”
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Bailey remarried four years after Smart’s death to radio executive Sean Pickwell.
However, eleven months after marrying him, he passed away after a battle with liver cancer.
“In this moment there are no words or feelings that can truly express the love and gratitude I have for my husband Sean Pickwell,” Bailey wrote in a Facebook post at the time of his death in 2019.
“He came into our lives and healed us. He loved me so hard and taught me so much and now whatever life throws at us we will be stronger, wiser and more fierce because of him.
“He was my absolute soulmate, the true love of my life and whatever I do from now on he will be in my heart and in my corner cheering me on.”
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