Debbie Phillips’ daughter is best friends with Antonia Kidman’s … now Debbie admits she had a five-month secret affair with Antonia’s husband, Angus Hawley.
The first time Angus Hawley kissed Debbie Phillips, she tried to resist. There were so many reasons why an affair shouldn’t happen.
He was the father of her nine-year-old daughter Cassie’s best friend. She knew and liked his wife, TV presenter Antonia Kidman. And she was worried that Angus had recently been treated for anxiety and depression at an exclusive Sydney clinic.
But the boyish 38-year-old businessman swept aside her scruples on their first official date, when he picked her up in a stretch limo stocked with vodka and ice, and took her to watch the rugby on television at a friend’s harbourside unit.
“He snuggled up on the lounge and kissed me,” recalls former model Debbie, who was once the face — and hair — of Décoré shampoo. “I actually stopped him short and said I didn’t want that; it wasn’t right.
“I told him I didn’t want to be the rebound girl he turned to because his marriage to Antonia was in trouble. I told him I wasn’t a casual fling kind of person, and that’s why it was so serious to me.
“But he was holding me and seducing me, and it was quite an intoxicating moment…”
For the full exclusive four-page interview, see this week’s Woman’s Day (on-sale October 15)
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