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Anti-bullying campaigner found hanged at home
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Australian TV star and former model Charlotte Dawson, who became an anti-bullying activist after she was targeted online, has been found dead at age 47.
Famed for TV shows such as “Australia’s Next Top Model,” the New Zealand-born star had a history of depression. She was found dead in her Sydney apartment on Saturday morning. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances.
The Sunday Telegraph newspaper in Sydney reported that she had been found hanged.
In 2012, Dawson was admitted to a Sydney hospital after a suicide attempt following an ongoing tirade of abuse on Twitter. She had taken prescription tablets with wine and tweeted: “you win” in a suicide note to her cyber tormentors.
She later made fighting bullying her personal mission, waging an anti-bullying media campaign on television and radio and in newspapers and magazines as well as her beloved Twitter.
Her efforts and high public profile on the issue were recognized by the National Rugby League, a major Australian football association, which last year made her an anti-bullying ambassador.
The NRL’s One-Community campaign is an extension of its zero-tolerance policy toward racial abuse in football.
Dawson revealed in her 2012 autobiography “Air Kiss & Tell” that she was frequently visited by the “depression bogeyman.”
She had long graced the pages of women’s gossip magazines and scenes in reality TV shows. Her modeling career had taken her to Italy, Britain and Germany during the 1980s.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key tweeted he was “shocked and saddened” by the news of her death.
Yesterday’s Sun-Herald newspaper reported that her body was found only minutes before her luxury waterside apartment was due to be sold at auction.
The tragedy was discovered the day after the birthday of her former husband, Scott Miller, an Australian Olympic silver medal swimmer who became a drug addict and accrued convictions for illegal drug and firearm possession.
Dawson professed her love for Miller and sadness at his fall from grace ahead of a recent “60 Minutes” interview with him.
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