The moment I knew: as I watched her brush her daughter’s hair, something in my heart just burst

‘I showed up to work, and there’s Audrey with her Disney princess eyes looking at me across the set’: The Bachelor Australia host Osher Günsberg with his now-wife Audrey Griffen at Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California in 2015 Photograph: Supplied

In 2014 I was shooting the second season of The Bachelor in Sydney. I’d been living in the US for years and was back in Australia for just 10 weeks. Early on during shooting, Carla, the makeup artist I had worked with since my first day in television, realised she had double-booked and arranged a replacement for herself.

For years, I’d been sitting in the chair complaining to Carla about my love life and as she left to do this other job she said to me of her understudy: “You’re welcome.”