I’ve been writing stories about Australia’s most interesting people for more than 20 years. About colourful characters with stories that are heartbreaking or inspiring. Some tragic, others joyful. Schapelle Corby’s story is all of these things. She is arguably one of the nation’s most intriguing women, but despite countless articles, books, a movie even, she has remained a mystery, until now. I recently spent a lot of time getting to know Schapelle, a woman my age, but with a history worlds apart. So, what’s she really like? From what she’s watching on TV to her deepest fears, regrets and hopes for the future, you can read on page 14 what it’s like to be a woman who, rightly or wrongly, has gone to hell and back and, in her own…
