Lisa Wilkinson is personally 'heartbroken' after Bill Cosby was released from prison

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    The Project host Lisa Wilkinson has spoken of her ‘heartbreak’ for Bill Cosby’s victims after the disgraced entertainer was freed from prison on a technicality.

    Wilkinson, 61, took to Instagram on Thursday to blast the controversial decision to free the 83-year-old comedian following his 2018 sexual assault conviction.

    ‘I am heartbroken today for every woman who suffered at the hands of Bill Cosby…and for every survivor of sexual assault who has felt unheard, not believed, or for one of many, many reasons has simply been unable to tell their story. We see you,’ she wrote.

    Outraged: The Project host Lisa Wilkinson (pictured) has spoken of her'heartbreak' for Bill Cosby's victims after the disgraced entertainer was freed from prison on a technicality

    Outraged: The Project host Lisa Wilkinson (pictured) has spoken of her ‘heartbreak’ for Bill Cosby ‘s victims after the disgraced entertainer was freed from prison on a technicality

    Cosby was released from prison on Wednesday, just hours after Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court threw out his sexual assault conviction.

    Cosby had served nearly three years of a three to 10-year sentence after being found guilty of drugging and violating Temple University sports administrator Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.

    The decision to overturn his conviction was based on how a former prosecutor had promised Cosby he wouldn’t be charged back in 2005 and lulled him into incriminating himself.

    Sounding off: Wilkinson, 61, took to Instagram on Thursday to blast the controversial decision to free the 83-year-old comedian following his 2018 sexual assault conviction

    Sounding off: Wilkinson, 61, took to Instagram on Thursday to blast the controversial decision to free the 83-year-old comedian following his 2018 sexual assault conviction

    Free man: Cosby (pictured in September 2018) was released from prison on Wednesday, just hours after Pennsylvania's Supreme Court threw out his sexual assault conviction

    Free man: Cosby (pictured in September 2018) was released from prison on Wednesday, just hours after Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court threw out his sexual assault conviction

    It comes after Wilkinson shut down a Twitter troll for suggesting her husband, Peter FitzSimons, was ‘secretly drinking’ despite claiming to be sober for seven years.  

    She was left unimpressed after receiving an unwelcome response to a tweet she’d posted on Tuesday about her journalist husband’s 60th birthday. 

    ‘A very happy birthday to the big fella @peter_fitzsimons who packs more into a day than I can in a year. Not quite the big celebration we were planning, but hey, life in lockdown,’ she wrote.  

    Defending her man: It comes after Wilkinson shut down a Twitter troll for suggesting her husband, Peter FitzSimons, was'secretly drinking' despite claiming to be sober for seven years

    Defending her man: It comes after Wilkinson shut down a Twitter troll for suggesting her husband, Peter FitzSimons, was ‘secretly drinking’ despite claiming to be sober for seven years

    The troll promptly replied: ‘Congrats Fitzy…don’t tell Lisa you are still having a cheaky [sic] bottle of red now and again…Mosman local… #auspol.’

    Lisa, who has been married to FitzSimons for more than three decades, snapped back: ‘Proud to say @Peter_Fitz hasn’t had a drink for almost seven years.’

    ‘By his own admission he’s a better man without it. Can I suggest you try it sometime?’ she added. 

    Birthday tribute: Wilkinson was left unimpressed after receiving an unwelcome response to a tweet she'd posted on Tuesday about her journalist husband's 60th birthday

    Birthday tribute: Wilkinson was left unimpressed after receiving an unwelcome response to a tweet she’d posted on Tuesday about her journalist husband’s 60th birthday

    'He hasn't had a drink for almost seven years': Wilkinson shut down the troll after they claimed FitzSimons was enjoying a'cheeky bottle of red now and again'

    ‘He hasn’t had a drink for almost seven years’: Wilkinson shut down the troll after they claimed FitzSimons was enjoying a ‘cheeky bottle of red now and again’

    Wilkinson has often publicly addressed her husband’s sobriety. 

    In 2017, she revealed on the Today show that her marriage had never been better since Peter quit the booze.  

    ‘My husband gave up drinking three years ago and he has never been more fun to be married to,’ Lisa said at the time.  

    'He has never been more fun to be married to': In 2017, Lisa revealed on the Today show that her marriage had never been better since Peter quit the booze

    ‘He has never been more fun to be married to’: In 2017, Lisa revealed on the Today show that her marriage had never been better since Peter quit the booze

    In 2016, she also told the Australian’s Women Weekly that alcohol had once cast a shadow over their marriage.  

    ‘He stopped caring when he had alcohol. He wouldn’t care too much what he’d say to me, he’d be careless he might upset me – and it actually takes a lot to upset me,’ Lisa told the publication. 

    The article claimed that Lisa would often come home in the afternoon to find her husband sleeping off alcohol on the couch. 

    'He just wasn't the man I married': In 2016, she also told the Australian's Women Weekly that alcohol had once cast a shadow over their marriage

    ‘He just wasn’t the man I married’: In 2016, she also told the Australian’s Women Weekly that alcohol had once cast a shadow over their marriage

    'He stopped caring when he had alcohol': The article claimed that Lisa would often come home in the afternoon to find her husband sleeping off alcohol on the couch

    ‘He stopped caring when he had alcohol’: The article claimed that Lisa would often come home in the afternoon to find her husband sleeping off alcohol on the couch 

    ‘He just wasn’t the man I married. We were missing out on time spent together, which we love,’ she said.  

    Lisa revealed it was a friend’s comment that inevitably led to Peter making a change for the better.

    After noticing that he was the only one to polish off a bottle of wine at lunch, Peter decided to quit drinking alcohol and sugar and begin exercising.  

    He went on to drop a whopping 40kg in the space of two years. 

    New beginnings: After noticing that he was the only one to polish off a bottle of wine at lunch, Peter decided to quit drinking alcohol and sugar and begin exercising. He went on to drop a whopping 40kg in the space of two years

    New beginnings: After noticing that he was the only one to polish off a bottle of wine at lunch, Peter decided to quit drinking alcohol and sugar and begin exercising. He went on to drop a whopping 40kg in the space of two years

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