When Tziporah Malkah knew she was heading to the jungle for I’m a Celebrity…, she reached out to the rich and powerful mother she has been estranged from for years to warn her she’d soon be baring her soul on national TV.
It could have been the start of a beautiful new chapter for this famously divided family, but the call just brought the former model, who used to be known as Kate Fischer, even more heartache.
Tziporah reveals her mum Pru Goward, who was last week made the NSW Minister for Family and Community Services, and Social Housing, on top of her role as Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, asked her “not to bring my name into it.”
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“I respect my mother. I understand my mother, but she’s not motherly,” Tziporah told The Project’s Carrie Bickmore last week, admitting to others that her fiercely driven mum also told her to make the most of the opportunity.
Tziporah, 43, blames her mum for her tortured life, telling Woman’s Day they constantly fought when she was younger because Pru was “busy and ambitious,” and accusing her of giving all her love to politics.
So deep is the divide between the two, her mum did not know Tziporah was penniless and living in a women’s shelter in Melbourne for two years, because she felt she couldn’t ask for help or give her mum the “satisfaction of lording it over me.”
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Her mum, pictured with New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian, has just been made the NSW Minister for Family and Community Services, and Social Housing.
Tziporah’s friends from when she was known as Kate say she has been searching for meaning and unhappy with her life for many, many years, while family friends say the often toxic relationship between Pru and Tziporah has left both women with emotional scars.
“Pru and Kate – I can’t call her by that other name – have always had their differences, but Pru’s never stopped loving her or worrying about her,” insists one family friend.
Pru Goward did not respond to requests for comment.
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