There’s a bit of uproar over the fact that Schapelle Corby was allowed to visit a beauty salon as part of her treatment for depression. I really don’t know what to think about her or her family’s guilt/innocence anymore, but surely we can cut the girl some slack and give her a couple of hours to scrub away all the grit that’s accumulated over her four years in a grotty prison cell. It’s not like she went to some five-star Balinese resort – it seems to have been just the standard roadside salon. And anyway, pampering is actually a legitimate way to treat depression. Sounds superficial - but studies have shown that beauty treatments have great mood-lifting powers. Massage is also nurturing, and experts say especially so when someone is suffering from loneliness. Which I’m guessing you would suffer from if you were locked up in prison, even if you were crammed into a cell with ten other people. So if Schapelle did get a massage and a facial, good for her. It’s probably been the highlight of her year. Although if she went for the Bali braids option – now that could totally lose my sympathy vote.
Schapelle’s Beauty Day Out
July 4, 2008
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I just want to know whether she got the flowers on her toes.
Comment by Katherine — July 4, 2008 @ 12:31 pm
Tee hee … But seriously - I can’t help feeling sorry for her. Did you watch that show? How appaling is her prison cell. Even one day in that would be hell on earth.
Comment by Belinda — July 4, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
I think regardless of whether she did it or not, she doesn’t deserve what she has gotten- an unfair trial and appalling living conditions. She deserves so much more, but i’m sure going to a beauty salon would have made her day- no, her year.
Comment by Erin — July 4, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
Totally with you, Erin. It’s a disgrace how she was treated. And the fact that they burned the evidence without checking for figner prints or where it came from makes me so angry.
Comment by Leigh — July 4, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
Yes, I have no idea of whether she is innocent or guilty but even if she’s guilty she really has been treated so harshly. Seeing as they let bombers out of their gaols they could give this girl a pardon. It makes me very sad for her that she has most likely lost her chance to have a baby. I also get angry at the snobbishness of people towards the Corbys. I’m sure if they filmed my family and EDITED it at will they would come up with some classic moments for Australians to snigger over. Having said that, the doco on them made my jaw drop at times. How could you have come up with such a colourful cast of characters?
Comment by Jo — July 7, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Whether she is guilty or not, some murderer’s get less time then her, let the poor girl have her beauty treatments, she needs something other than facing ‘tree jumping monkeys’, that do not care for westerners.
Comment by Anon — July 7, 2008 @ 6:15 pm