Dark truth behind star’s Australian Idol win

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With two million people tuning in on TV to watch Kate DeAurago declared winner of Australian Idol in 2005, it should have marked the beginning of a glittering new chapter.

Instead, her triumph – and the money that came with it – would eventually pour lighter fluid on her escalating, private battle with drug addiction.stardom was eight horrifying years of addiction, arrests, and violence as she struggled to get on top of the disease.

After that, she moved on to the “awful, awful drug” of nitrous oxide before trying methamphetamine, or “ice”, for the first time during a road trip from Airlie Beach to Mackay with a friend in 2009.

 

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