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Tahlia and Ebony endured childhood cruelty at the hands of their mother.<\/p>\n
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Talia and Ebony Uamaki-Mu found their courage to speak out against their parents, only to see them be celebrated on national television.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n
As adults, they finally found the courage to tell police, only to watch their mum, Claudean Uamaki-Mu, and stepfather, Anthony Mu, be celebritised on\u00a0My Kitchen Rules, cooking in the very house the sisters suffered horrific violence.<\/p>\n
Despite police laying serious charges, Channel Seven kept the cameras rolling.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow would you describe your mother, Claudean?\u201d\u00a0A Current Affair\u00a0asked the sisters.<\/p>\n
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Claudean and Anthony Uamaki-Mu were advertised on My Kitchen Rules as the \u201cfiery Italian\u201d and \u201csuper-chilled Samoan\u201d.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n
“I think the most terrifying person I’ve ever met,” Ebony replied.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, I would say, horrifying,” Talia added tearfully.<\/p>\n
Claudean and Anthony were advertised on\u00a0My Kitchen Rules\u00a0as the “fiery Italian” and “super-chilled Samoan”.<\/p>\n
“I’m Anthony and this is my wife Claudean,” Anthony can be heard saying in the promo.<\/p>\n
“I think we’re the best team because Anthony understands me. He can see beyond my behaviour,” Claudean said.<\/p>\n
\u2018The hardest and most gut-wrenching thing\u2019<\/p>\n
That behaviour completely destroyed the childhoods of Claudean\u2019s daughters: Ebony, who is legally blind, and Talia.<\/p>\n
\u201cWatching the two hosts walk up the stairs that I\u2019d been pushed down was the hardest and most gut-wrenching thing,\u201d Talia told A Current Affair.<\/p>\n
“And hearing her voice, terrifying,” Ebony added.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWatching the two hosts walk up the stairs that I\u2019d been pushed down was the hardest and most gut wrenching thing,\u201d Talia told A Current Affair.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n
“And to see it plastered on the internet and on the TV, it felt again like you can’t escape,” Talia said.<\/p>\n
“What was it like to finally tell police what your mother had done to you both, only for you to then see Claudean and Anthony then appear on a Channel Seven reality TV show?”\u00a0A Current Affair\u00a0asked.<\/p>\n
“Honestly, the hardest part was seeing the house,” Talia said.<\/p>\n
“That was a house that so much had happened in,” Ebony said.<\/p>\n
“So much, so to see it all over television is, yeah, it was really hard,” Talia said, breaking down in tears.<\/p>\n
“There was fear, you know, turning the TV on, and they’d be on, or, you know, scrolling on social media, and a reel would pop up, you’ve gone through all of these measures to protect yourself, detach yourself from those experiences,” Ebony added.<\/p>\n
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The sisters both called their mother \u201chorrifying\u201d.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n
The sisters are choosing to waive their right to anonymity for the first time on\u00a0A Current Affair.<\/p>\n
“You have spent the last three years watching your story unfold in the media but you have not been able to tell your story until now. How does it feel?”\u00a0A Current Affair\u00a0asked.<\/p>\n
“Not speaking and watching it unfold was really excruciating, it’s not anything I ever anticipated having like the hardest experiences of my life being public knowledge,” Talia replied.<\/p>\n
“Do you have any happy memories with your mum or is it all clouded by cruelty?”\u00a0A Current Affair\u00a0asked.<\/p>\n
“I don’t, no,” Talia said with a heavy heart.<\/p>\n
“No,” Ebony added after taking a deep breath.<\/p>\n
As a child, Ebony needed mum more than most<\/p>\n
Ebony and Talia grew up in a busy Brisbane home with a big family.<\/p>\n
“What things were like day to day is constant chaos. It was survival. We were having to protect each other, keep each other safe,” Ebony explained.<\/p>\n
As a child, Ebony needed her mother more than most.<\/p>\n
“At the age of two, I was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa,” she said.<\/p>\n
“It’s a degenerative eye condition that progressively worsens over time. So I’ve always been legally blind. And it became a very conflicting position to be in, to be dependent on the very person you’re absolutely terrified of.<\/p>\n
“I was in my room and she came in and grabbed my cane, and it’s metal, and she threw it at the back of me, and it hit my head and then she continued to beat me with my cane.<\/p>\n
“The thing that is supposed to give me independence, was a such a humiliating thing as a person with a disability.<\/p>\n
“I mean, it’s hard enough having to live life with a barrier that I can’t control, but to not have adequate support around me to be able to navigate that…”<\/p>\n
Talia is Claudean’s eldest daughter.<\/p>\n
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Ebony has retinis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye condition that meant she relied on her parents.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n
All she wanted was her love but said she was petrified of her mother.<\/p>\n
“People at school saw bruises on me,” she tearfully said.<\/p>\n
“In 45 degree summer heat, I used to wear a jumper and stockings to school so I could hide bruises.<\/p>\n
“She would always pull my hair, always pull it back from the back of my head until my knees would buckle out, she’d kick me in the stomach, she told me that she hated me, and she wishes I was never born, and she spat in my face.”<\/p>\n
Series aired after couple were charged<\/p>\n
Talia and Ebony’s biological father suddenly died when the girls were only aged five and six years old.<\/p>\n
“I remember when he passed away. I remember seeing his body go on the gurney,” Talia said.<\/p>\n
“I think she used it as a tool to get away with bad behaviour,” Ebony said.<\/p>\n
Less than a year later, Claudean met Anthony.<\/p>\n
“The name of our instant restaurant is Pappa and Mumma Mu. Mu is our last name, me: Mumma Mu, him: Pappa Mu,” Claudean told viewers on\u00a0My Kitchen Rules.<\/p>\n
In 2023, before their season aired, both Claudean and Anthony were charged and fronted court facing serious child abuse offences relating to Talia and Ebony.<\/p>\n
“Did police interview you before you appeared on the TV show? Why did you not pull out of that TV show?”\u00a0A Current Affair\u00a0asked Claudean after she was charged.<\/p>\n
Channel Seven continued to feature the couple throughout the series despite the serious charges.<\/p>\n
“The only time I saw them take anything down that that had to do with my parents was after she plead guilty,” Talia explained.<\/p>\n
Claudean has been very vocal on social media throughout the court proceedings.<\/p>\n
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Claudean has shared her side of the story on social media, which her daughters have rejected.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n
“If anything happens to Anthony after everything he’s done for me and my kids, I can never forgive myself for that,” Claudean said on TikTok, in tears.<\/p>\n
Anthony went to trial for several charges including assault and strangulation and was found not guilty on all counts.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, it was devastating. A lot of those charges were pertaining to me,” Talia said.<\/p>\n
“What has it been like to see the support crowds for Claudean and Anthony outside court?”\u00a0A Current Affair\u00a0asked.<\/p>\n
“I mean, I think the whole point of bringing that amount of people to court hearings is to make us feel insular,” Ebony replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very hurtful.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Has justice been served?\u2019<\/p>\n
Claudean was initially facing dozens of serious charges including 12 counts of rape but police prosecutors offered her a plea deal.<\/p>\n
All original charges were dropped and Claudean pleaded guilty in the District Court to two counts of cruelty to a child.<\/p>\n
She also pleaded guilty to six counts of common assault in the Magistrates Court.<\/p>\n
“It has been such a long, drawn out court process. How did you both feel when those charges were dropped?”\u00a0A Current Affair\u00a0asked.<\/p>\n
“That has really affected me. We don’t call the shots. When it’s a criminal case, you don’t hire your own lawyers, you’re at the mercy of the crown. We both wanted to go to trial and continue,” Talia replied in tears.<\/p>\n
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