She didn't know anything about the magazine prior to its publication at all, actually. By the time the court case was under way in December, the Australian public didn't care all that much for the truth. They were too busy gobbling up the 'Lara Bingle is a home-wrecker' false narrative. Sure, when Bingle and Fevola entered an affair after meeting at rehearsals for the AFL Footy Show Grand Final, he was the married father-of-two. But it was single teenager Bingle who bore the brunt of our fury. The media gleefully played and replayed audio snippets of a voicemail message Bingle left Fevola - "I feel like I'm talking to a brick wall right now … can you call me?" - and wheeled out all the obvious puns in their headlines.