Home and Away star Sarah Roberts recalls racist remarks growing up in Australia

Home and Away star Sarah Roberts has shared her experience of racism growing up in Australia as a woman of Sri Lankan heritage. 

The actress, 37, who stars in the new comedy film Wog Boys Forever, told The Herald Sun, said she is no stranger to receiving racist remarks. 

‘I can relate to feeling excluded – growing up, I got called really hurtful names,’ she recalled. 

‘This film [Wog Boys Forever] brings back a sense of pride for people who have felt excluded.’

Back in 2018, Sarah penned a gut-wrenching open letter to her younger self that detailed her horrific battle with racism. 

‘The thing is Sar, as you grow up, a lot of people are going to make fun of you for the colour of your skin,’ she wrote in the letter, which was published in New Idea magazine.   

‘I can relate to feeling excluded – growing up, I got called really hurtful names,’ she told The Herald Sun this week

‘They are going to call you names like ‘poo-face’, ‘curry-muncher,’ ‘chipolata sausage’ and ‘abbo’, but as the years go by…you’ll realise that the colour of your skin is actually your most beautiful asset.’ 

It comes as the actress insisted all is well at home between her and husband James Stewart. 

The relationship between Summer Bay’s golden couple was recently rumoured to be on the rocks.

It comes as the actress insisted all is well at home between her and husband James Stewart despite rumours that their relationship is on the rocks. James and Sarah are pictured 

But in her interview with this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine, the actress says the couple are solid. 

‘Family life is going great; we’re both really proud of each other,’ she told the publication. 

The actress added that the couple are happily parenting Scout, the ten-year-old daughter her husband, 46, shares with his ex, Jessica Marais, 37. 

Rumours of the pair’s breakup had been swirling for many months and they had reportedly been undergoing couple’s counselling in a bid to restore their relationship

‘We’re busy bringing up Scout. She’s in Grade 4 now [and] becoming a little lady’ Sarah said. 

It comes after split sumours were sparked after Stewart, who married Roberts in 2019, was notably absent from the premiere of his wife’s latest film, Wog Boys Forever, on Thursday night in Melbourne.

Stewart was ‘nowhere to be seen on the red carpet’ and Stewart is no longer following her on Instagram.

However, Roberts’ agent shut down claims of a split and the actress was still wearing her wedding ring at the event. 

Rumours of the pair’s breakup had been swirling for many months and they had reportedly been undergoing couple’s counselling in a bid to restore their relationship.

Stewart and Roberts got engaged in November 2018. He proposed at the restaurant where they’d had their first date the previous year. 

Stewart was notably absent from the premiere of his wife’s latest film on Thursday night in Melbourne. Pictured: Sarah at the red carpet premiere of Wog Boys Forever