Dave Pearson

And I'm so appreciative of the work that she does.

Deb couldn't get in and out of the hospital without being questioned.

You know, we had her daughter was there as well.

My daughter and her boyfriend were there.

My brother and sister were also there.

And mum and dad even come down after a day or so as well.

So everybody that they started recognising as my family, they were hassling.

So I said to the hospital, the hospital had a media section, and I said, look, can you just...

find out what they want and I'll give an interview to somebody and they can leave the hospital alone and let you get on with your job.

So I did one interview and, yeah, I said, thank you, can we please have our privacy now and let's get on with what I need to do and that's get fixed up.

It's a bit of a buzz.

I won't say it's not.

Everyone loves reading about themselves, so it was interesting.

Some of the stories were, I don't know whether, will I say the word made up, but I think not getting the full facts but in a hurry to go to print.

They obviously got some things wrong.

At one stage, I'd lost an arm and a leg.

And when I started looking at some of the news stories and reading the stories about me, and that's when I found that lovely section at the bottom which allows everybody to comment on a news story and pass their opinion and judgment as much as they want.

And that's when I started reading stuff about me that I just knew wasn't true.

Like the TV cameras all had me coming into the hospital at 9.30 at night.

So I was attacked at 5.30.