Amber Harrison doesn’t regret going public about affair with Seven’s Tim Worner
AMBER Harrison has told ABC’s 7.30 she has no regrets about going public about her affair with Seven CEO Tim Worner, despite the monumental cost.
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AMBER Harrison says she has no regrets about going public with her affair with Seven West Media chief Tim Worner.
In an interview with ABC’s 7.30, the former Seven West Media executive assistant confessed she couldn’t go on without speaking her truth.
“I made a decision that I couldn’t go on without telling the truth and without telling it the way I did, so no, I don’t regret it,” Ms Harrison told 7.30.
“At the start this was about a spat with two people but this has turned into something very different.
“This is a company that signed me into agreements and then didn’t honour them, and the idea that I’m not supposed to stand up for myself when that happens is wrong.
“This is not about a relationship, this is about what the company did next and it always has been.
“My case is a lesson in how many ways you can screw a girl online.”
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Ms Harrison said the “boys club” had shown they were still in control, “but we can change that and we will”.
It comes as Ms Harrison was ordered to pay all of Seven West’s legal costs in her long-running battle with the broadcaster over her failed affair with chief executive Tim Worner.
Ms Harrison claims the order, which could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, will bankrupt her.
The media company had sought a NSW Supreme Court permanent gag order against its one-time employee preventing her from leaking company documents and details of her affair.
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Seven contended that her social media posts had breached a confidentiality agreement in which the company agreed to pay her $427,418 in instalments for her silence.
Ms Harrison said her court battle had been extremely public and she now had to work out how she was going to “live under the control of Seven a lot longer than I hoped”.
She said she had now agreed to a gag order but did not think office romances should be a sackable offence for men and women.
Justice Sackar found she acted “unreasonably” and ordered her to pay all the company’s legal costs.
He said she chose to pursue the court case when the matter could have been settled between the warring parties in February and without her having to pay Seven’s costs.
Originally published as Amber Harrison doesn’t regret going public about affair with Seven’s Tim Worner
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