The woman at the centre of the biggest sex scandal in New Zealand public life tells her strange, tormented story. This story first appeared in the December 2. Metro. Photos by Simon Young. We sat watched over by a big cock, a brass rooster, in a private alcove at one of the downtown hotels where she used to meet Auckland Mayor Len Brown during their pleasant two- year affair. She took off her shoes and curled her legs up on her chair. She had delicate, beautiful hands and a thrilling kind of laugh. She spoke interesting English, inconsistent with plurals and tense . Yeah.” Then she said, “I can. Open, confident, direct, she was also strangely acquiescent, almost pliant . Her desire to go along with what men want is a theme of the whole amazing story of her involvement in the biggest sex scandal in New Zealand public life. She gave Brown her love. She gave the news of it to Brown. She gave the explicit, excruciating physical details of it to Brown. First she betrayed Brown, then she claimed she was pressured by Wewege and Palino to blab, that it was all a vicious right- wing attempt to stage a coup. Slater denies there was any kind of conspiracy. Wewege denies he was in any kind of relationship with Chuang. Palino was last seen denying everything and anything to Campbell Live reporter Rebecca Wright, who memorably got in his face (Whale Oil: “shameful. Brown has remained in office.
The woman at the centre of the biggest sex scandal in New Zealand public life tells her strange, tormented story. This story first appeared in the December 2013 issue of Metro. Photos by Simon Young. Our Story; Portfolio; Contact Us. Good luck to Cook, Slater, Wewege and Palino, as they return to their various interests. What about Bevan Chuang, 3. New Zealand? I had just gently put it to her that her motives were completely and utterly selfish. In fact, she possessed a crazy kind of power . One or the other.”I said, “But in a way you were just choosing yourself. You were just being totally selfish.”The wet eyes, the voice that began to shake. I changed the subject. I smiled, and said, “You like the drama.” She laughed happily, and said, “Obviously I like the drama!” And then: “No, I don. I always get myself into drama, and then work out a way to get out of it. No one in the mind,” she said, stepping over a word, “would think that makes sense.”She said she came from a wealthy Hong Kong family, big in real estate and property development, but that life changed forever when they came to New Zealand and her parents split. Just four girls.” She meant herself and her younger sister, and their mother and grandmother. My father has decided to just cut everything. We were left with not much.”I said, “How did that affect you?”She said, “I was daddy. Co-founder and Commercial Director at Newsflare Ltd. Location London, United Kingdom Industry Online Media. Michael Bevan; Personal information; Full name: Michael Gwyl Bevan: Born (age 46). New South Wales: 1995–1996: Yorkshire: 1998–2000: Sussex: 2002: Leicestershire: 2004–2006: Tasmania: 2004: Kent: Career. I was brought up being the favourite child. He was very proud of me. I was a little bit spoiled. All looked after and everything. Life was just an ongoing battle. My mother was really upset. My grandmother was getting older and couldn. I went to school and tried to get a life. We had to found a house in a short period of time. Even my dogs got anorexic! We had to move so quickly, they were having a psychological problem, because we didn. That was also the first time I had my first panic attack. I remember I got up and went to the bathroom. I sat on my chair for like 2. I thought I was having a heart attack. Years later, I realised I was actually having a panic attack. Every week or so I might have a little one.”I said, “A controlled one.”“A controlled one,” she said.“What impact did all this have on you?”She said, “I think I. I always wanted to have assurance. Because I felt that things could change, and like my father who I trusted, and I absolutely . I constantly need assurance that everything is okay.“I know I can be a bit needy. I always question who I am, and am I good enough, and I always feel I need to please somebody, just so that someone would appreciate me.”I said, “And love you.”“And love me,” she said. She said her longest relationship was four years. When she posed in a corset and stockings for her so- called . I mean, I have regrets for what happened, in terms of destroying everything, and the hurt and the humiliation that the children have to go through. We had a really good relationship. I really enjoyed talking to him. Young, single, alert, with her deep laugh and her lively intelligence, funny, expressive, provocative . I talk about it a lot. Every moment we worried that someone would find out. She was naked, Brown wasn. She laughed, and said, . The door opened, I run and hide. There were things I could talk to him about, and I could share things with him. I remember when I lost my job at the art gallery, he was the first person I rang. He never intervened, he just wanted to talk with me, and gave me advice. Len was someone I could rely on. At different events in the same room. I think we will one day. We just need to get over that. I need to stop doing that. I need people to reassure me I. And I feel comfortable. He gives me that security. But she got home, and the phone rang. It was a journalist from TVNZ, and then another reporter started banging on the door.“I was shocked that within an hour or so everyone knew my identity. I had been promised my details were not going to go out. I freaked and rang Stephen Cook, because he said, . And then I just left with Stephen within half an hour and he popped me in a motel. He paid cash for two nights.”Brown made his wretched confession that night on Campbell Live. Chuang sat on her motel bed and watched.”He looked terrible. It was terrible watching it. It was blowing out cold air. I hop into the bed because that was the warmest place in the room. A friend of mine sent me a text saying, . When I asked her why she felt the need to be so explicit in her interview with Cook, she said. You were happy to talk about it.”. Cook was working on a big story, and wanting information; her behaviour during Cook. She echoed every trite little insight I offered (“You were a princess. This is my final interview.”“This is it?”“This is it,” she said. Only the day before, she had gone with NZ Herald reporter Lincoln Tan to John Palino. Undaunted, Chuang gave Tan an 1. The weirdest scene was the carpark opposite the Berkeley Cinema in Mission Bay, where Chuang had her late- night rendezvous with Palino. She drove there in her Suzuki, Palino in an unmarked campaign car. A car with open windows and a boombox went by on Tamaki Drive. She got out of her car and into his. Sunday night by the gentle waters of Mission Bay; Bev and John, alone at last. She said, “The plan was to go to the mayor and tell him there was evidence of an affair, and ask him to stand down. John would either be elected before the mayor is sworn in, or there might be a by- election. And he said I could get any job I want.”The ugly American. According to Chuang, the first she spoke about the affair to Palino was the night before, at the post- election party on October 1. Wildfire in downtown Quay St. Chuang had also stood in the local body elections, for the Albert- Eden Local Board. She missed out by 2. I was devastated. The whole team had worked incredibly hard. I only had four hours sleep each day. I remember walking to my car . I went to Wildfire and was desperately looking for someone to give me a hug and tell me it. Princess Bev, in distress. The panic attacks, the sobbing, the burlesque photoshoot, the affair, the betrayal . She was such a creature of whim. I said to her, “Even though you. Why would you do that to Brown? What did I do to him? Chuang has made much of her love for Wewege, but was that a fantasy, too? I said, “You did all this for him. That suggests you were wildly in love. Were you really?”She said, “I think I was looking for . Being a 3. 2- year- old woman who. He might not be the person that I love the most, but . Stay away from my woman. At Auckland University, she got a BA Honours, majoring in anthropology, and has earned a reputation as a smart, energetic workaholic and community volunteer, active in such initiatives as helping to establish the New Lynn night markets. We had ordered a second pot of Earl Grey. I asked her to describe herself. She sipped from her cup and said, “I don. I think I fit into both. I take whatever that suits me. She still lives at home, with her mum and sister and her two shih tzu dogs. She said, “My priority for me is to rebuild my life. I still have to make a living. I still need to pay the mortgage. It makes me feel incredibly sad. I tried, and tried, and tried, and either I couldn. I said, “What do you want to do with your life?”She said, “Continue to help the community. I wrote something very graphic on Facebook about how depressed I was. A few people came to my rescue. It was the hardest thing to go through. When I was going through my depression, I didn. Bevan Chuang, naked in the Ngati Whatua room, acting out the little subterfuges with hotel door keys, the scent of her Chloe perfume lingering on Brown. I just wanted someone to kill me.”I said, “Was this before your affair with the mayor?”She said, “During. But it had nothing to do with him. I lost the art gallery job, I felt I didn. I desperately wanted someone to kill me.”The wet eyes, the voice that started to shake. I can actually resist more than I used to. She wrote, “When you asked me how I describe myself . Happy to fill in the gaps.
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