Gladys Berejiklian has opened up about her personal struggles through the Covid and bushfire crises, and tells how she really felt more love after being under investigation about her relationship. to Daryl Maguire ‘dodgy’.
In a recent interview with former Liberal minister Christopher Pyne on her podcast, ‘Pyne Time’, the NSW Premier revealed that she followed a simple credit to get through what Pyne said was an awful year.
Ms Berejiklian told Pyne that Covid’s uprising early last year was ‘very scary’. But she lived with a simple belief about getting on with life by putting ‘one foot in front of another leg’ and pushing through the dark times to get to better days.
‘You won’t realize how strong you are …’ Even with the bush fires and the pandemic and the personal issues I’ve had.
‘I never thought I could do all the things I had to do but you get that inner strength and courage,’ she said.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has emerged as she battled through the trio of complaints that explained her 2020 – the bush fires, Covid and ICAC investigation into her secret lover Daryl Maguire
Ms Berejiklian said she actually felt more ‘loved’ after being testified in front of the corruption watchdog and revealed that she had been in a ‘close personal relationship’ with Daryl Maguire. (above)
In the interview, Pyne suggested that the public sympathized with Ms Berejiklian when she confronted the Independent Anti-Corruption Commission late last year because the public had gained such a good experience during the previous crisis.
Ms Berejiklian agreed, considering she felt more ‘respected’ after she went against the ICAC following revelations that she had been in a ‘close personal connection’ with the backboard. .
“I know this is not logical but I felt after the event what it was before the event,” she said.
‘I felt very lucky but I also felt that the bush and Covid fires were accessible to people because they usually only see ten seconds away.
‘It gave people a chance to find out who I am who is really hard in public life because it’s easy to get painted into a box or a corner, it’s an easy way to explain people like us.
‘Because I had to deal with the things we weren’t expecting, and whether people liked me or not, I hope they feel familiar. and I feel that that ‘s why I got that support that I got over with. ‘
The Premier said she told herself not to worry about what reporters, journalists and opponents would say about her decisions – just ‘do what should be done’. ‘
‘The bus fires taught me that too … even if the news you are giving is not good you have to inform people and tell them why you want them to do something. And that builds trust. ‘
Gladys Berejiklian (center) with her sisters Rita (left) and Mary (right). The last in the last election came for a troll to be asked to ‘grow some pubs’
Berejiklian (back row) is the eldest of three sisters. The NSW Premier revealed only last year that she had a still-dead twin sister, whom she learned about as a child.
Escaping genocide
Throughout the podcast, the pair also discussed how their grandparents fled to Australia as refugees from Armenia, a landed Caucasus country.
They were ‘survivors of the genocide’, she said, with her extended family fleeing a Caucasus nation on land for the Middle East.
According to her mother’s history, some 43 relatives were tragically lost in the first genocide of the 20th century.
Ms Berejiklian has previously reported in a speech to the Sydney Institute how all four of her grandparents were orphaned by the crisis.
Her mother, Arsha, was born in Israel and her father, Kirkor, in Syria, before each separate tribe moved to the north coast of Sydney.
A historical portrait of Armenians killed in the 1915 genocide, more than a century ago
Men stand beside the skull and bones of the victims of the murder in this undated historical image
Berejiklian (bottom right) with her parents Arsha and Krikor and her sisters Rita and Mary
Surprisingly, Berejiklian was the captain of Peter Board High School
The future chief was the eldest of three sisters Rita and Mary, attended public schools and was elected school captain in her high school.
She went on to study at university and became president of the state’s Young Liberals, worked at the Commonwealth Bank and was elected to the NSW Lower House in 2003, before becoming a transport minister in O’Farrell’s government, and before becoming prime minister, Treasurer.
Driven by the loss of her mysterious twin
Berejiklian (pictured this week) told a reporter last year: ‘I had a twin sister and she didn’t … I feel I have to prove my life by sacrifice’
The other personal revelation Berejiklian made just a few years ago was that she was a twin – but sadly her sister died at birth.
‘I’m very lucky… for me every day of my life is an advantage,’ Berejiklian told The Australian Weekend in an interview ahead of the 2019 state election.
‘I had a twin sister and she didn’t. It was just lucky that I came out first.
‘Think if you had a twin; you came out first, they didn’t do it, I feel like I have to prove my life by sacrifice. So I don’t worry if I’m not happy all the time. I feel like I have to work hard. ‘
Berejiklian told the newspaper that she had only found out she had a twin when an experience came over when she was a child and asked: ‘Where is the other one? ‘