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Speaker 1: You ladies, know Hugh Sheridan, right, Yes, we do. Well.
Speaker 1: This is actually it's a really tragic story. So who
Speaker 1: has opened up about a horrific experience that happened when
Speaker 1: a couple spiked his drink That I.
Speaker 2: Was in Sydney a few years ago and I was
Speaker 2: around Melbourne Cup dying.
Speaker 3: I actually got someone drugged me. Two people drugged me, and.
Speaker 2: I know I was stuck for about eight hours.
Speaker 1: Truly awful. And the reason I bring this up is
Speaker 1: because you don't often hear it happening to men. It's
Speaker 1: often a female lad narrative.
Speaker 2: It's actually so frightening.
Speaker 3: I've been drugged three times, by the way, you care. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I know that Laura's had a situation. I have
Speaker 3: so many friends as well or female friends that have
Speaker 3: been in this situation too, like it is so problematic,
Speaker 3: but it's so prevalent, and I think think a lot
Speaker 3: of people don't know how prevalent it is because it's
Speaker 3: not wildly reported. I know what happened to me. I
Speaker 3: didn't because there was a part of me that was like, well,
Speaker 3: what are they going to do about it? Anyway? How
Speaker 3: are they going to prove it? Like you just think that?
Speaker 3: And I think that most women think that unless there's
Speaker 3: a way for them to feel that they one hundred
Speaker 3: percent can be heard and something can be done about it.
Speaker 2: And also I mean, like, what has happened to you here?
Speaker 2: Often you don't know. You don't remember because of the
Speaker 2: whole situation because you don't have you know, you don't
Speaker 2: have your cognitive ability, you've been drugged, you don't know.
Speaker 2: So it's really hard to then talk about something when
Speaker 2: you don't know the specifics. But like you know, even
Speaker 2: with what you're saying for it, like it's happened to
Speaker 2: you three times, it's happened to me once. I know
Speaker 2: so many women, and I think that it's it's something
Speaker 2: that we have to be conscious of as women. But
Speaker 2: you don't hear men like how many times have you
Speaker 2: left the house and gone out and thought, well, better
Speaker 2: be careful that my drink doesn't get spiked, and not once.
Speaker 1: It is not a thought that is top of mind
Speaker 1: for me when I go out clubbing or drinking and
Speaker 1: with friends as well, never think about it.
Speaker 3: I think about it all the time.
Speaker 2: But this is the thing, right, Like the scary part
Speaker 2: of this story, and it's something that I hope that
Speaker 2: everyone is really conscious of, is that it doesn't just
Speaker 2: happen when you're at a nightclub or you're out with strangers.
Speaker 2: Like my experience was with someone who I thought was
Speaker 2: my friend, so I think you know, and in this
Speaker 2: experience with Hugh Sheridan, it was someone who he thought
Speaker 2: was his friends and people he knew, And I think
Speaker 2: that that is something that's very underrepresented and not talked
Speaker 2: about enough. So I mean, it is so brave of
Speaker 2: you to come forward and share this story, but also
Speaker 2: just to really highlight that not only is it strangers,
Speaker 2: it's people that you know that can be the people
Speaker 2: at bottom of this well.
Speaker 3: I mean one of mine was on a date, one
Speaker 3: of mine was a barman. So that made me very worried,
Speaker 3: disgusting because you can be as careful as you want
Speaker 3: covering your drinks and you know, walking around a bar,
Speaker 3: but if it's come from behind the bar when you've ordered,
Speaker 3: it's out of your control. And the other one was
Speaker 3: a patron, just at a nightclub kind of like outdancing.
Speaker 1: Well, the other thing you hear is is you get
Speaker 1: taught this. I mean, we got taught in school when
Speaker 1: I was in school. And you tell your daughters and parents,
Speaker 1: tell your kids when they're going when that age about
Speaker 1: to go clubing when they're seventeen eighteen. But this happened
Speaker 1: to Hugh when he was in his thirties. I mean
Speaker 1: it happened to both of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But I also think on that you become so
Speaker 2: because when you are eighteen, you're very hyper vigilant. You
Speaker 2: know you're eighteen and that you've heard all these horror
Speaker 2: stories and you think, oh god, I'll cover my drink,
Speaker 2: and you walk around with your hand over your vodka
Speaker 2: Cruz or whatever it is. But then when you get
Speaker 2: into your thirties, you think, I'm way past this as
Speaker 2: being a possibility.
Speaker 3: This is completely irrelevant what I'm about to say, but
Speaker 3: I'm going to say it on the person I was
Speaker 3: on a date with that drug me. He was the
Speaker 3: biggest geek, right, I was like, this guy.
Speaker 1: Is the biggest geek, unassuming.
Speaker 3: But very endearing. And what I mean by that is
Speaker 3: it was just for the cliche who you think is
Speaker 3: going to drug you? I do want to say to cliche,
Speaker 3: but who comes to mind when you think of someone's
Speaker 3: going to drug you out a nightclub? This person, for
Speaker 3: me was the furthest thing that I would have thought
Speaker 3: it would have happened with. And again, you can never
Speaker 3: judge a book by its cover. We know that.
Speaker 2: I'm so grateful that Hugh felt confident enough to come
Speaker 2: out and speak about this because I think it is
Speaker 2: such an important reminder for everyone, not just parents, but
Speaker 2: for anyone listening that you know, you have to be
Speaker 2: so conscious that this does happen. It still happens all
Speaker 2: the time, and it is hugely underreported and underrepresented, and
Speaker 2: I just think, you know, putting in shining a light
Speaker 2: on it is like the only way to protect people.
Speaker 1: Totally good on you, Hue Amura. That is us to
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