Tammy Hembrow’s worst nightmare came true late last year when she hired a nanny who not only lied about her qualifications but severely injured her four-year-old son.
WATCH: Tammy Hembrow says she once hired a fan to work as a nanny
Speaking about the scary incident on her podcast “Hanging With The Hembrows” the Instagram influencer explained she had hired a babysitter— who was a huge fan of the mum-of-two— to care for her children so she could attend business a series of meetings while in Los Angeles for a short period of time.
While at first she trusted the woman with her children, it quickly became clear that she was incompetent and lied about her experience.
“For instance, she came inside one day and she reeked of cigarette smoke. And she had told me she wasn’t a smoker because I don’t want that around my kids,” Tammy said.
“I was like, ‘You smell like smoke’, and she was like, ‘Oh, I quit for this job’. And I was like, ‘Well, obviously you didn’t quit because you smell like smoke’.”
“All of a sudden when we got over there [to America], she was like, ‘Oh, I can’t lift anything because of a back injury,'” she said. “I was like, ‘Well, you know I have two little babies who need to be picked up sometimes!’ Like, what? I wouldn’t have hired you, you.”
Things took a turn for the worse when the Saski Collection founder arrived at the airport and asked the nanny to watch over her children while she searched for their passports before boarding the flight. Turning her back for just a moment, Tammy was left panicking when an onlooker pointed out that her son was injured.
“I look over, and Wolf just has blood pouring out of his head,” she revealed, clearly still traumatised by the awful experience. “I was just looking around to see where the nanny was, and she and Saskia were out of sight.”
She continued: “I was in a bit of a panic at that point. I was frustrated because I just saw all this blood, and I was freaked out a little bit. I was already a bit agitated, so I was getting a bit angry at her.”
After the nanny burst into tears and complained she was going to miss her flight, a furious Tammy ordered her to leave them immediately before she rushed to the hospital where Wolf’s head was “glued back together”.
“I had to take Wolf to the emergency room, so I wasn’t going to be able to go on the flight, and I expected her to be coming with us to help with the kids, Tammy said. “I had six giant suitcases and two little babies, and all of a sudden, she starts crying, ‘I’m not missing this flight’.”
“She would get annoyed with me whenever I went to do something. I’d be gone the whole afternoon, and she’d be like, ‘Oh, I just wanted to talk to you and hang out with you’.
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