At the end of the sessions, a video was shown to introduce the creator of the course.
“Then I realised that the woman I was actually watching was Natalie, Aaron’s first wife,” Robyn said. She had been completely unaware of the connection.
But Natalie knew. She had worked with Swan’s sister to get Robyn on the course, after learning that she may be in danger.
She wrote the Own My Life course in a bid to help others who found themselves in a similar situation to her when she was married to Swan.
Natalie said she was violently raped by her husband when she was 21, and six months pregnant.
“Within a week, I’d gone into labour with my son,” she said. He was rushed to intensive care.
“And I was just all the time thinking, this is Aaron’s fault, there needs to be some consequences.”
He was charged with rape but while out on bail he worked his way back into Natalie’s life and manipulated her into having sex with him.
In 2006 a jury found him not guilty.
