Craig McLachlan

In continuing his ill-fated defamation action, Craig McLachlan knew it would dredge up all the details of the original claims once more.

I had thought this kind of shaming was a thing of the past, but I was wrong. Friends of Scammell say she has been impacted badly by the case, suffering hair and weight loss. I’m an innocent man,” the former Gold Logie winning soapie heart-throb told Spotlight viewers just over a year ago, months after being acquitted of criminal charges of indecent assault and assault in December 2020. McLachlan issued a statement citing his mental health and the pressure of the trial on his family among the reasons behind abandoning the case. “It didn’t happen.” He even alerted - inadvertently - his opponents to the existence of thousands of potentially damaging documents in the form of text messages, emails and photos which were eventually handed over.