An Ordinary Day Turned Violent - This Is Chloe & Christine's Story Of Survival

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Marie Claire presents

You're Gonna Want to Hear This.

He just whacked one whopping great punch across my face.

All I thought was, oh, my God, we are getting robbed.

Imagine that that man had bashed me, bashed her.

He opens the door and he sees a woman, full blood.

Yes.

And he's just standing there.

The system is failing.

We need to do something for women.

Welcome back to You're Going to Want to Hear This.

I'm Georgie McCourt, editor of Marie Claire.

Today's episode comes with a warning.

It contains descriptions of violence that may be distressing to some listeners.

On the morning of March 3rd, in a quiet apartment building in Sydney's Potts Point, there were two women's lives who were changed forever.

Christine had just moved into the apartment building.

A wellness therapist, a yoga teacher, someone whose life's work is about helping others feel safe, calm, and held in their bodies.

Then there was Chloe, who was at her desk working.

a photographer, a mother of three boys, in her own home in the middle of a very ordinary morning.

Within minutes, both women were brutally attacked by a stranger that they had never met.

What followed is almost impossible to comprehend.

Violence in the very spaces that we're told are the safest.

And yet both Chloe and Christine survived.

Today on the podcast, they join me to talk about what happened, what it means to rebuild after something like this, and the bigger conversations that we need to have about women's safety, not just out in the world, but inside our own homes.

This is a difficult listen, but it's an important one.

Let's meet Christine and Chloe.

This is an R Media podcast.

Marie Claire presents

You're Gonna Want to Hear This.

He just whacked one whopping great punch across my face.

All I thought was, oh, my God, we are getting robbed.

Imagine that that man had bashed me, bashed her.

He opens the door and he sees a woman, full blood.

Yes.

And he's just standing there.

The system is failing.

We need to do something for women.

Welcome back to You're Going to Want to Hear This.

I'm Georgie McCourt, editor of Marie Claire.

Today's episode comes with a warning.

It contains descriptions of violence that may be distressing to some listeners.

On the morning of March 3rd, in a quiet apartment building in Sydney's Potts Point, there were two women's lives who were changed forever.

Christine had just moved into the apartment building.

A wellness therapist, a yoga teacher, someone whose life's work is about helping others feel safe, calm, and held in their bodies.

Then there was Chloe, who was at her desk working.

a photographer, a mother of three boys, in her own home in the middle of a very ordinary morning.

Within minutes, both women were brutally attacked by a stranger that they had never met.

What followed is almost impossible to comprehend.

Violence in the very spaces that we're told are the safest.

And yet both Chloe and Christine survived.

Today on the podcast, they join me to talk about what happened, what it means to rebuild after something like this, and the bigger conversations that we need to have about women's safety, not just out in the world, but inside our own homes.

This is a difficult listen, but it's an important one.

Let's meet Christine and Chloe.