Every week in Three Things, we ask prominent Australians what they’d save from their house in a fire. For most subjects in this column, it’s a hypothetical question. But actor Kerry Armstrong really did have her house burn down – some 24 years ago now – and in a twist of fate managed to save a trio of artworks made by her three boys when they were little.
That house fire is not the only loss the actor has faced. Her “first great love”, Australian Crawl guitarist Brad Robinson, died from cancer in 1996. The pair married in 1981 when she was 23 and divorced later that decade so Armstrong could marry an American friend and get the green card that would allow her to work in the US. The plan was for her and Robinson to later get back together but “as it is in life, that didn’t work out”, Armstrong has previously explained.
