Cassandra Thorburn denies claims by half-sister that she’s ‘secretly OBSESSED’ with ex Karl Stefanovic and Jasmine Yarbrough – and won’t stop Googling them
Cassandra Thorburn, 49, has hit back at her estranged half-sister Allegra Bottrell-Thorburn, after she claimed that the journalist has a ‘secret obsession’ with her ex-husband Karl Stefanovic.
Posting to Instagram on Sunday, Cassandra said Allegra’s claims are completely untrue and that she hasn’t spoken to her half-sister in two years.
Allegra claimed in The Sunday Telegraph that Cassandra became obsessed with Googling information about Karl and his new wife Jasmine Yarbrough after the couple’s wedding in December 2018.
Not true: Cassandra Thorburn, 49, (L) has denied her estranged half-sister Allegra Bottrell-Thorburn’s (R) claims that the journalist has a ‘secret obsession’ with her ex-husband Karl Stefanovic
‘She just wants to know what people are saying. That is how she feels she is in control,’ Allegra claimed.
Cassandra and Karl separated in 2016 after 21 years of marriage.
Allegra told the publication that Cassandra’s divorce ‘changed her as a person’, and fears her sister may never truly recover from the heartbreaking split.
‘She just wants to know what people are saying’: Allegra claimed to The Daily Telegraph that Cassandra became obsessed with Googling information about Karl and his new wife Jasmine Yarbrough (pictured) after the couple’s wedding in December 2018
While the half-sisters once shared a close bond, Allegra claims she and Cassandra have become estranged in the time since their father Max’s death in October 2018.
Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Cassandra Thorburn for comment.
It comes after Cassandra spoke candidly about the ‘grief’ of her marriage breakdown during the first episode of her podcast, Divorce Story: Surviving Separation.
Case of the ex: Allegra told publication that Cassandra’s divorce ‘changed her as a person’, and fears her sister may never truly recover from the heartbreaking split. Pictured: Cassandra and Karl l in 2008
Speaking to psychologist Jackie Manning, Cassandra revealed: ‘People often say, are you over them? Yes I am over them.
‘I am over my ex-husband but it is about going through the grief of going through a divorce. Going through a divorce is really stressful, so that is something to grieve.’
She added: ‘Divorce is a trauma, it is something you have to go through a process of. You can’t underestimate that someone going through grief has to go through a process and if they have had a trauma.’
Karl and Cassandra share three children, Jackson, 20, River, 12, and Ava, 14.
Karl is expecting his first child, a daughter, with wife Jasmine in May.
‘I am over my ex-husband’: It comes after Cassandra spoke candidly about the ‘grief’ of her marriage breakdown during the first episode of her podcast, Divorce Story: Surviving Separation