Australian comedian Rosie Waterland has announced the tragic loss of her mother, Lisa Stevens.
The best-selling Sydney-based author, 37, said Lisa died aged 60 on January 4.
Writing on Instagram, Rosie shared a black-and-white photo alongside her mother, saying she was “finally” at “peace”.
Rosie, who rose to prominence in 2013 with her popular reality TV recaps, lost her father Tony Purcell to suicide when she was just eight-years-old.
In another post honouring her late mother, Rosie shared old photos of her parents taken in Tumut, which sits on the northwest of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales.
“They both look … something. I can’t think of the right word. Fragile, maybe? Hurt? It just feels revealing to me,” Rosie wrote of the below image.
“Like you can look at that photo and not be totally surprised that those are two people who would each go on to end their own lives.”
Rosie continued, “I like these pictures though. I like that even just once, they had a cold, happy day walking in Tumut.”
The author, whose debut memoir The Anti-Cool Girl in 2015 swiftly became a bestseller, has not shied away from discussing her traumatic childhood, which she’s used as material in her various works.
Appearing on a segment of ABC’s Australian Story in 2019, Rosie, who said she suffers from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), further opened up about her difficult upbringing, with her father a schizophrenic who had an addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Tony and Lisa were evading drug dealers when Rosie was born in 1986, and she’d later go on to attend more than 20 different schools.
Rosie is the eldest of four sisters, including Rhiannon, Tayla and Isabella.
When Rosie was 14, she was separated from her sisters after Lisa contacted Department of Community Services and asked them to take away her “uncontrollable children”.
A decade later, the siblings would reunite and are now closer than ever.
Rosie also forgave her mother, reconciling the brutal toll her volatile relationship had taken on her.
In 2017, Rosie and Lisa launched the popular podcast Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie, which became an open forum for the pair to discuss and dispute childhood stories covered in The Anti-Cool Girl.
Speaking to Australian Story, Rosie admitted recording the podcast was not an easy process.
“I actually became pretty depressed recording that podcast, because there was just so much emotion stirred up from it,” Rosie said.
“No matter what, your mother is your mother. I love her.
“I can’t hold onto anger about the past forever and I try not to. But sometimes I just think ‘How could you?’.”
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Lisa, who also participated in the televised interview, took accountability for letting her children down.
“All I can say is … Forgive me, but don’t hold onto your anger. Try and move through that to make the most of your lives and try not to make the same mistakes I’ve made,” Lisa said at the time.
“I wasn’t there for them and I neglected large parts of my responsibility as a mother, but on the other hand I was a really good mother when I was there.”
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