Craig McLachlan

I mean, the hunt for stuff, again, preparation's everything, whether it's a play or a show, and I had to look at all this stuff before going to court.

The day you got charged?

Well, it's very difficult for me to put it into words.

I know people who freak out having to go to jury duty.

People freak out because they forgot, honestly, they just forgot to pay a parking fine and now they've got to appear in court and they're terrified.

I can't adequately articulate...

how it felt to be told that you're not just being charged with tickling someone on the ankle, a castmate on the Rocky Horror Show, but with all of these other offences.

And you're up against the might of big media in this age.

Yeah.

It's not like when I went up against the media back in the 80s.

Lawyers, legal professionals haven't even caught up to the digital age, and what I mean by that is social media and the internet.

They will admit...

So the feeling was, that's it.

And I felt that the truth, because it wasn't reported, you honestly think for one second if I had conducted a hasty interview with Knowles or whoever on that Friday, do you think it would be edited fairly?

Because was any of this balanced?

Well, it's beyond words.

I can't adequately articulate how it feels.

I can tell you though, if I'd been a serial bank robber and I'd been caught on CCTV and I'd finally been caught out and identified, you'd have to roll with that, wouldn't you?

But when you know in your guts and your heart that you never ever did anything wrong, it was never your intention,

to hurt upset make anyone feel less than and yet you're being charged with a catalogue of charges some that are doubled up and trebled up because they just want to get you especially with everything you know that the media circus had put out there it's almost like i'm