She had an affair with Gerard Baden-Clay, who was this month convicted of the murder of his beautiful wife, Allison.
In an interview with The Weekly out tomorrow, Toni says she wants everyone to know that she’s sorry that she had sex with Gerard – but she also wants everyone to know what she was thinking.
She was planning a future with him – and with his children. She thought they’d all be able to play happy families together.
This obviously isn’t what Allison’s children ever would have wanted. What they wanted – what they still want – is their Mum.
Still, Toni says that she feels no responsibility for what happened to Allison. Nor does she feel responsible for how awful Allison was made to feel in her marriage: unloved, and unwanted by Gerard, who preferred advertising himself on sex websites, and sneaking around with mistresses, to making love with his own wife.
“I can’t be held personally responsible,” Toni says, in her interview. “If it wasn’t me, it would have been another woman.”
Toni also tells The Weekly that she had suffered since been exposed as “Australia’s Monica Lewinsky” – the most famous mistress of them all. Her children left home to live with their father. She’s found it hard to make a living. Of course, there will be readers who say: “who cares if you lost your job? Allison lost her life! Besides which, you made your bed, Toni McHugh, you lie in it.”
