Natalie Imbruglia is the Central Coast girl who acted in Neighbours and went on to have a series of Gold and Platinum album successes in the UK and US as well as Australia – with Left of the Middle, White Lilies Island and Counting Down the Days. In 2001 she became the face of L’Oreal cosmetics, and in 2003 married Daniel Johns of Silverchair and The Dissociatives.

Behind this success as an actor, singer and model though, she has battled depression for many years. Natalie now speaks out publicly about her own experience in the hope that it will encourage others to seek help and not feel embarrassed or ashamed. ‘I have experienced depression,’ she says, ‘and that’s why I think it’s important to talk about it – because if I can tell people that I’ve been through it, maybe they won’t feel so silly that they have.’