The moment I knew: his voice on speaker made me laugh – and broke my family’s haze of grief

The moment I knew: his voice on speaker made me laugh – and broke my family’s haze of grief

Former Home and Away star Lukas Radovich was struggling to navigate a family crisis. Then Liam’s voice came loud and clear down the phone

Liam and I met in October 2019 and by the time we were “official” there was only a few months until the first Covid lockdown. He was living on the New South Wales Central Coast and I was in Sydney – many local government areas apart. We had the chat of “Oh God, what do we do? I hardly know you!” Surely there was no way we could do long distance – this was our honeymoon period!

Once I had received word that Home and Away had paused production “until further notice”, I packed up my 2003 Golf and drove from Sydney to the Central Coast where I spent eight weeks living with Liam, his parents and siblings during a period of complete unknown. Within this large family of big personalities, Liam had a remarkable ability to defuse a tense situation in a way that made everyone feel instantly better.

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