Lisa Wilkinson has spoken out about how her new role as the narrator of Network Ten’s emotional reality show, Ambulance Australia brought pack painful memories of her beloved mother’s death.
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Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, the veteran TV star said one particular scene on the show was particularly harrowing.
‘It would have to be the story of an elderly mum with cancer saying goodbye to her home and family for the last time as paramedics transport her to palliative care,’ Lisa explained.
The Project star explained it reminded her of her mother, Beryl, who passed away in 2018.
‘Having recently been through those exact same moments with my own mum as she left the home she loved and built for the last time, just brought it all back’.
The former Today host announced in March 2018 that her mother had sadly passed away.
Sharing a photo of her mother, and herself, posing with her children, Billi, Louis and Jake, the TV star wrote: ‘You were an angel, a fighter, and a devoted mum and grandma right to the end. Be at gentle peace now.’
In September 2017, Lisa revealed Beryl had almost lost her life to a heart attack.
“Mum had a triple bypass six years ago,” she explained.
“It allowed us many more years than we thought were going to be possible.”
Lisa also opened up about her mum’s upbringing in an interview with Daily Life in 2015, revealing she was “shunted between orphanages as a child,” as her grandmother was an alcoholic.
“So Mum sort of grew up not kind of knowing where she was going to lay her head, and, um, she met an angel in the shape of my dad,” Lisa said of her father Ray.
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