I Don't Want To Be Remembered Like This!

Eileen ‘Red’ Bond is fuming over the portrayal of her family in House of Bond and is determined to set the record straight.

- Phillip Koch

It’s mystifying why producers felt the need to fabricate parts of the Alan Bond story when the truth is better than fiction – a tale of greed, theft, excess and betrayal on a scale never seen before or since in Australia.

“It’s just terrible,” Eileen Bond, Alan’s first wife, says of the two-part miniseries which premieres on Channel Nine this week. “I just don’t know what they are trying to do. It’s just appalling. I don’t want my grandchildren to see this.”

What has most upset this society matron – who is widely known as Red – is a scene showing the couple fighting over Alan’s affair with Diana Bliss, a hostess on his private jet at the time. Red (played by Adrienne Pickering) is shown warning Alan that she’ll take him for tens of millions of dollars before Alan threatens to kill her.

“When I saw that I nearly died,” says the 79-year-old, insisting Alan never spoke to her like that during their turbulent marriage. What really happened is enough of a story – Red reportedly shredded her cheating husband’s designer Italian suits and threw them on the lawn of their Perth mansion.