![]() ![]() "I have lost my feeling of safety in the world knowing someone wanted so badly to damage me for simply speaking the truth. "My name was dragged through the mud and my character and own behaviour was exaggerated and called into question," she said. Through Ms Olsen, the actor said she and her colleagues felt they had no option but to speak to the media after their complaints about McLachlan fell on deaf ears. Marina Olsen, Ms Whelan Browne's lawyer, read a statement on behalf of her client outside court saying she had suffered abuse and threats since coming forward in 2018. "Ending the case now will finally bring to an end the four years we have endured since the publications were first made, as well as avoiding the need for other witnesses to have to endure the cross-examination process." In a statement, McLachlan said: "I cannot continue to place my family under that strain, and my own mental health will not withstand the continuing pressure." It is crucial that defamation laws also not be used to silence the media in reporting accurately and with integrity on matters of public interest. "Eleven women came forward to give evidence against McLachlan," Mr Stevens said. In a statement, ABC News Director Justin Stevens said it was a "tremendous result for the women who were brave enough to come forward and tell their stories, particularly Christie Whelan Browne". "That means the case is brought to an end, it's finished." "Mr McLachlan has decided not to proceed any further with either of these cases," she said. On Friday, Acting Justice Carolyn Simpson granted McLachlan's application to seek leave to end the proceedings.Īcting Justice Simpson discharged the jury, thanking them for their service over the past two weeks. McLachlan denied the claims and said they had ended his acting career. The reports, aired on the ABC's 7.30 program and published in the Sydney Morning Herald, alleged the now 56-year-old had indecently assaulted, bullied, harassed and exposed himself to female cast members. ![]() McLachlan had sued in the NSW Supreme Court in 2018 over a media investigation detailing allegations of inappropriate behaviour during the 2014 tour of The Rocky Horror Show. The former Neighbours star will pay the defendants' court costs after abandoning the hearing on its 10th day. ![]()
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