Entertainer and national treasure Wendy Harmer has lived an extraordinary life. After being born with a severe facial deformity, she went on to perform as a stand-up comedian, a national television host, and became the highest paid woman in the cut-throat world of FM radio.
In part one of their chat, Jess and Wendy dig deep on how she overcame adversity and the emotional turmoil of her childhood and found the strength of character to carve her own way in the world. Wendy also opens up about the heartbreaking day her mum went missing, and why now through compassion can she see that it was for the best.
Content Warning: This conversation touches on suicide. So if it brings up anything for you, help is available at lifeline on 13 11 14.
Part two of this conversation drops tomorrow, hear Wendy’s response to the backlash she received after hosting the logies, and other stories from her extraordinary memoir ‘Lies My Mirror Told Me’ which is out now.
The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show acknowledges the Gadigal people, Traditional Custodians of the land on which we recorded this podcast, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples here today.
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