Lisa Wilkinson Shares The Shocking Secret That Has Tormented Her Since Childhood
Woman's Day Australia|29 May 2017

As she celebrates 10 years as co-host of Today, the mum-of-three bares her soul.

Tiffany Dunk
Lisa Wilkinson Shares The Shocking Secret That Has Tormented Her Since Childhood

Watching her each morning on Today, Lisa Wilkinson is the flawless epitome of a woman with huge confidence, a ready smile, fierce intelligence and a willingness to battle for what’s right.

But when she was growing up, it was a very different Lisa who faced the start of each day. As a teenager she’d wake up fearful and terrified, looking for ways to blend into the background rather than stand out.

The 57-year-old TV host was the victim of relentless bullying – both physical and verbal – that she still can’t believe she survived.

It would get to the point, she says, where every day she was in fear of a gang of girls at her school.

“I felt so powerless,” Lisa tells Woman’s Day of her experience, which was at its height in her mid-teens. “I still don’t know how I survived it because every day I went to school I didn’t know if I was going to get beaten up.

“I became really good at hiding it. I hid it from my parents. I even hid it from my girlfriends because I didn’t want them to be subjected to the bullying as well.

“I would isolate myself so they didn’t become part of it because I felt so completely humiliated.”

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