Australian Story: Season 24, Episode 6

24 - 6: Telling Tales

Introduced by Osher Günsberg

Writer and comedian Rosie Waterland has made a successful career out of seeing the funny side of her traumatic childhood.

Whether it's growing up with alcoholic parents, hiding from welfare workers as a "houso" kid or finding her father's 'dead' body', the darker things got in Rosie's life, the funnier she became.

But as Rosie's star was rising, the trauma of her childhood caught up with her.

It's been her three sisters, torn apart as children when the family disintegrated, who've been the ones helping her back to wholeness.