Kerri-Anne - 'A whole chunk of me doesn't exist any more'0:58
Speaking to Sunday Night, Kerri-Anne Kennerley opens up about the accident that has happen to the one love of her life, her husband John Kennerley. Courtesy: Sunday Night
Kerri-Anne Kennerley also broke down on Sunday Night earlier in the year.
IT’S been an incredibly difficult year for Kerri-Anne Kennerley and her family.
The Australian TV legend has been supporting her 76-year-old husband John through intensive recovery since March, when he was left critically injured during a balcony fall.
And the process has clearly taken its toll.
“I hate this new life to be quite frank. I just hate it. It’s awful,” the 63-year-old presenter revealed to Channel Seven’s Sunday Night. “I want my old life back. And I want my husband back. I have my husband, we’re just different now.”
Kerri-Anne added that her relationship would never be the same.
“A whole chunk of me just doesn’t exist anymore. There’s just a whole big chunk that he used to fill.”
The recovery process has been especially hard on John, who married Kerri-Anne 32 years ago. He was put in an induced coma after breaking his neck and sustaining spinal cord damage in the fall, and has had to undergo operations and intensive rehabilitation ever since.
It’s been an incredibly difficult time for Kerri-Anne and John’s family. Picture: Channel 7Source:Channel 7
“It wasn’t a particularly big fall,” he told the program. “It was only about 800mm, but I just landed on my head and neck — there was a crack.
“I remember coming to ... I couldn’t move anything. I couldn’t move my arms, I couldn’t move my legs. And Kerri was with me within a second and I remember saying to her, ‘I think I’m paralysed, I can’t move.’ Soon after that, I fainted.”
Despite the trauma which followed the accident, John knows he’s lucky to be alive — and he credits Kerri-Anne for her support.
“She was there when I woke up and she’s been with me every day. Every single day,” he revealed. “I have appreciated it ... She’s never faulted. Never faulted.”
John is now back at the couple’s Sydney home after spending eight months in hospital.