Kelly Landry admits she and estranged husband Anthony Bell are still not on good terms, months after their very public split.
The high-profile couple’s marriage collapsed in November after an alleged fight at their $12.5 million mansion that led to Landry taking out an AVO.
After protracted and bitter court proceedings, the former Getaway presenter’s application to make the interim AVO permanent was dismissed in May.
Kelly Landry admits she and estranged husband Anthony Bell are still not on good terms, months after their very public split
The high-profile couple’s marriage collapsed in November after an alleged fight at their $12.5 million mansion that led to Landry taking out an AVO
The 38-year-old, who has two children with her celebrity accountant husband, has returned to her TV career and hopes the pair can get past it.
‘The circumstances that were surrounding our marriage, they were volatile and it takes time for things to heal and for people to move on,’ she told 9 News.
‘I’m really hopeful that this will all be brought to something that’s in the past and is not something that is going to be an ongoing issue throughout the rest of our lives.’
Landry said they were ‘getting there’ and hoped their two daughters Charlize, five, and Thea, three, would help them be amicable.
‘We share children together and again, coming back to everything I’ve been saying, I think life is way too short to be consumed with all of the things that aren’t harmonious to living,’ she said.
After protracted and bitter court proceedings, the former Getaway presenter’s application to make the interim AVO permanent was dismissed in May (pictured)
The 38-year-old, who has two children with her celebrity accountant husband, has returned to her TV career and hopes the pair can get past it
The AVO police sought against Mr Bell was dismissed because Magistrate Robert Williams found there was little or no chance he would be violent towards her again.
This was despite Mr Williams stating the Sydney to Hobart yacht skipper had been ‘intimidating in the past’.
During the hearings, Ms Landry was accused of excessive drinking and using the AVO as traction in divorce and custody proceedings, which she denied.
The court heard allegations, denied by Mr Bell, the he was was stingy and prepared to bully Ms Landry with his wealth and power.
Mr Williams accepted Ms Landry’s version of a violent confrontation on November 18 last year, in which her arm and one of their children’s head hit a wall.
Landry said they were ‘getting there’ and hoped their two daughters Charlize, five, and Thea, three, would help them be amicable
The AVO police sought against Mr Bell was dismissed (pictured) because Magistrate Robert Williams found there was little or no chance he would be violent towards her again
He said that she had been in fear of her husband, who had shown intimidatory and controlling behaviour.
He said private issues within the couple’s marriage had been aired publicly in court, ‘some unnecessarily’.
In the recordings made on her telephone of the November 18 fight, Ms Landry could be heard saying to Mr Bell: ‘You’re acting psycho’ and ‘you’re scaring me’.
Mr Bell could be heard saying to Ms Landry: ‘You’re not going anywhere, you’re not taking the kids, you can’t take them… you’re drunk’.
There was a scuffle, followed by Ms Landry screaming ‘Owww’, before the recording cut out.
The pair now seem to be starting to move on as they go through divorce proceedings and Landry restarts her TV career
Wiping away tears in the witness box, Ms Landry said the alleged assaults were only part of ongoing emotional abuse.
‘There are a number of incidents during the course of our marriage,’ she said. ‘What is in my statement is a drop in the ocean of what I experienced on a weekly basis.’
She told the court that despite an interim AVO being in place, she still lived in fear.
Mr Bell consistently denied all allegations of abusing Landry, physical or otherwise, and argued he provided for the family
She in June was a guest panelist on Studio 10 and said she loved working on TV and would be interested in taking up other roles in the future
‘I’m pleased that justice has prevailed… I’ve got to go see the kids,’ Mr Bell said outside court when the permanent AVO was dismissed.
The pair now seem to be starting to move on as they go through divorce proceedings and Landry restarts her TV career.
She in June was a guest panelist on Studio 10 and said she loved working on TV and would be interested in taking up other roles in the future.
The mother-of-two also works as a Heart Foundation ambassador, after suffering from heart disease when she was pregnant with her first child.