Lisa Wilkinson reveals how her school friend’s brazen father sexually assaulted her outside a TAB and in a living room when she was 15 years old
Lisa Wilkinson has detailed the traumatic sexual assault she suffered at the age of 15 in her new autobiography It Wasn’t Meant to Be Like This.
The Project host, 61, said the man who molested her was her school friend’s dad, and her father’s colleague.
‘I was walking home after school and I saw him come out of the local TAB. I desperately didn’t want to see him. As soon as he saw me, he called out, telling me to wait up. I didn’t want to but I was in the main street in broad daylight – what could he possibly do?’ she wrote in her book.
Lisa Wilkinson shared horrific details about her shocking sexual assault when she was just 15 years old
‘He picked up off the ground and hugged me… I dropped my heavy schoolbag on the pavement and tried to slide out of his gasp and started pushing down on his arms.
‘Finally he started to let go but as I slid down, he immediately grabbed onto my now-exposed bottom and panties.’
Lisa also spoke about another horrific incident she experienced while visiting her friend’s home.
‘Without a single word, his large frame completely blocking the only way in and out, his eyes beneath those wild eyebrows now looking glazed, he put his hand on my breast and started stroking,’ Lisa recalled. Pictured: Lisa as a teenager
The Project host, 61, said the man who molested her was her school friend’s dad, and her father’s colleague
‘Without a single word, his large frame completely blocking the only way in and out, his eyes beneath those wild eyebrows now looking glazed, he put his hand on my breast and started stroking.’
Lisa recently said she was inspired to tell her story following the bravery of Brittany Higgins, a former Liberal staffer who alleges she was raped in Parliament House in March 2019.
Ms Higgins came forward in February, two years after the alleged attack.
Ms Higgins sparked an outpouring of anger over the treatment of women and spoke at a March 4 Justice rally in Canberra in March.
‘I wasn’t actually going to write about that and I only made that decision earlier this year after witnessing the incredible courage of Brittany [Higgins],’ Lisa told Stellar Magazine.
‘I thought, if [women] don’t come forward and don’t show how incredibly common these experiences are, then the perpetrators win. And I couldn’t be a party to that,’ she added.
Lisa recently said she was inspired to tell her story in her autobiography following the bravery of Brittany Higgins, a former Liberal staffer who alleges she was raped in Parliament House in March 2019