Vikki Campion has revealed she came close to aborting her son after finding out she was pregnant with Barnaby Joyce’s baby.
Mr Joyce and his former media adviser spoke out about their affair on Channel Seven’s Sunday Night program.
Ms Campion said she took a pregnancy test in winter 2017 which confirmed she was carrying Mr Joyce’s child.
‘I felt overwhelmed by the complexity of the situation we had caused ourselves,’ she said.
Mr Joyce said as he doesn’t believe in abortion, and that he knew at that moment he would lose his job as Deputy Prime Minister.
Vikki Campion has revealed she came close to aborting the son she was carrying with Barnaby Joyce
Mr Joyce and his former media adviser spoke out about their affair on Channel Seven’s Sunday Night program
Ms Campion said she considered getting an abortion and bought the medicine.
‘I tried, and I couldn’t go through there,’ she said.
After driving interstate she said she ‘walked in and then walked out’ of an abortion clinic, ultimately deciding to keep the child.
Ms Campion said she was told by doctors shortly before she fell pregnant that she would not be able to have children.
Wife Natalie was becoming suspicious about his relationship with his media advisor.
Ms Campion said she couldn’t repeat the words Natalie used towards her during a confrontation.
Mr Joyce admitted to living a lie by continuing his public relationship with his wife while secretly being involved with Ms Campion.
Ms Campion said she was hurt that Mr
The couple controversially accepted a $150,000 sum from the Seven Network to tell their side of the political scandal.
Ahead of the Sunday Night program airing that interview, Seven’s Sunrise breakfast show aired a clip of Mr Joyce’s 33-year-old former media adviser.
‘Everything was worth it for this,’ she said, as she held the hand of her baby son.
Barnaby Joyce is estranged from his wife of 24 years Natalie and their four adult daughters as a result of the extramarital affair that forced him to quit as Nationals leader and deputy prime minister.
The affair between Barnaby Joyce and his former media adviser Vikki Campion caused his salary to halve from $416,000 to $203,000 as backbencher with no portfolio (the couple are pictured here at a bar at Glebe in Sydney’s inner west last year before the news broke)
The backbench MP for the New South Wales seat of New England told the Seven Network he had let his family down.
‘I failed, I failed, I failed, I failed, I failed,’ he said.
The former accountant’s salary has also halved from $416,000 to $203,000 after the affair raised character questions about the Catholic, family values politician who had last year campaigned against gay marriage.
Despite the personal and political pain that caused to her boyfriend, Vikki Campion said that was the price of love.
‘I couldn’t help it. You can’t help who you fall in love with,’ she said.
Joyce refused to accept sole responsibility for the revealing tell-all – which many are calling hypocritical given the politician’s previous demands for privacy – due to the fact that Vikki will be interviewed as well
The pair’s decision to go forward with the interview has angered Mr Joyce’s own conservative side of politics.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he was opposed to the paid media interview.
‘It’s not a course of action I would have encouraged,’ he said.
Mr Joyce said the money from the interview would go into a trust fund for young Sebastian.
His successor as Nationals leader Michael McCormack had a similar view point as the Prime Minister when it came to a federal MP accepting cash, albeit indirectly, for a paid interview.
‘I wouldn’t have done it, but you know that’s a decision that Barnaby has taken,’ he said.
Mr Joyce has taken personal leave for several weeks to spend time with Ms Campion and their son Sebastian.
Mr Joyce has refused to accept sole responsibility for the revealing tell-all – which many are calling hypocritical given the politician’s previous demands for privacy – due to the fact that Vikki will be interviewed as well.
The former deputy prime minister said the decision was made after weeks of relentless media pressure that showed no signs of ‘burning out’, as the mother of his newborn realised she may as well benefit from the ordeal, New Corp reported.
‘We tried for privacy,’ said Mr Joyce.
‘In the last fortnight we’ve had drones over our house. We’ve had paparazzi waiting for us outside Armidale airport… we’ve tried just burning this out and that didn’t work.’
The couple, who now have a five-week old son Sebastian, has controversially accepted $150,000 from the Seven Network to tell their side of a major political scandal
The former deputy prime minister (right) said his former staffer (left) and the mother of his newborn Vikki Campion realised she may as well benefit from the ordeal after weeks of relentless media pressure