This week, whilst on the publicity trail for her new book ‘Casey Donovan: Big, Beautiful & Sexy‘, the lady herself Casey Donovan has published excerpts of the new autobiography in New Idea. Turns out, the Australian Idol was catfished for six years.
Back in 2004, whilst on tour for Idol, she got a phone call from someone who was allegedly a ‘friend-of-a-friend’ and so began an ongoing relationship with ‘Campbell’. She said of the call: “Oddly, with every question I became less impatient and relaxed into the conversation. After a while it even felt like talking to an old friend. Before I realised it, I’d been on the phone to this guy for over an hour.”
Then, as the ‘relationship’ continued to progress, he always had an excuse for not being able to meet in person. “He had to go to Queensland to look after his sick aunt, his car wasn’t working, his cousin died, his sister was pregnant, someone broke into his house, he had to go up the coast to see his godson, he was out of town on business,” Donovan writes.
Then Olga, a mate of Campbell’s turns up at Donovan’s house one day, because he was ‘too drunk to drive’ [wariness intensifies]. Olga and Casey would go on to become friends and after being peer-pressured by ‘Campbell’, Donovan had sex with her [Stage Direction: All Red Flags are now to be raised].
After a starring role in The Sapphires stage show Donovan finally ‘broke-up’ with Campbell and finally spoke with her manager, Jason Williamson, about the whole affair. It was Williamson who, not realising that #Te’oing was soooo 2013, proposed that perhaps Campbell and Olga were one in the same (!); which, after Donovan confronted Olga, turned out to be the case.
Of the revelation Donovan said: “At first she tried to defend herself, but once there was silence she started to cave in and her true colours began to show. In the end, Olga did confess that she was Campbell. I finally heard it from the devil’s mouth. But she never came close to explaining why she did it. I still don’t have that explanation. I spent six years of my life loving someone who never really existed, being ‘supported’ by a best friend who was deceiving me from the beginning, pulling all the strings. I know everyone gets their heart ripped out every now and again but that … That just took the cake for me!”
What has she learned? “I won’t let love lead me astray again,” she said. “I will find out if they’re real or not first!”
What have we learned? There really are plenty more catfish in the sea.
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