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PHOTOGRAPHY BY PETER BREW-BEVAN. STYLING BY MATTIE CRONAN. HAIR AND MAKE-UP BY NONI SMITH. DELTA WEARS RACHEL GILBERT SKIRT, CUSTOM-MADE SILK CAMISOLE, ACNE LEATHER JACKET AND BY CHARLOTTE JEWELLERY.
Born to try
Delta Goodrem
Nobody can escape having their
world rocked by loss, and a brush with
mortality can’t help but change you.
For Delta, the shock took a different
form. The performer was on the cusp
of global glory in 2003 when cancer
forced her to put her plans on pause.
“I just wanted my mum,” Delta said
in 2003. “As long as I could smell her
hair and know she was near, then I felt
protected. She was what I needed
most.” These days the singer is stronger
and wiser. “I’ve seen different storms –
I just put my umbrella up,” she says.
“To keep a warm, compassionate heart
is what I feel is important.”“You have to get
smarter and wiser.”