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Hero image for Laurel Devenie on Shortland Street villains

Laurel Devenie on Shortland Street villains

Web (Extras) – 2017

I'm still amazed at how those kind of baddies can be written over time and intricately and everyone's implicated in it...
– Laurel Devenie
[Victoria] was just someone who is so broken, and who never learned how to communicate what she needs and how to get help, because when she did try to do that when she was very young, her voice was shut down so she's never learned that...
– Actor Laura Thompson, quoted in Australia's Daily Mail after the controversial death of her character Victoria, July 2016