Lisa Wilkinson posts selfied after stunning admission from DPP about Brittany ... trends now

Lisa Wilkinson posted a selfie captioned 'some days are diamonds' a day after the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions made a surprising admission about her controversial Logies speech on Brittany Higgins. 

Wilkinson faced heavy criticism after she won a Logie award last June for her 2021 interview which first aired the former politcal staffer's allegations that Bruce Lehrmann raped her in Parliament House in 2019. 

In her speech which was broadcast nationally, Wilkinson appeared to side with Ms Higgins, saying she 'believed her'. Mr Lehrmann has always denied the allegations.

The speech led to the trial being delayed, with Wilkinson facing intense criticism for jeopardising the case. 

Wilkinson has always maintained that ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold SC did not advise her against making the speech. 

On the other hand, Mr Drumgold told an inquiry that he believed he had sufficiently warned Wilkinson against bringing any publicity to the trial. 

However, on Friday, Mr Drumgold was accused of 'misleading' the public and the Chief Justice of the ACT about what happened during his meeting with Wilkinson after he admitted a procedural mistake.   

And reacting, Wilkinson posted a selfie on Instagram on Saturday, with the words: 'Some days are diamond.'

The post was quickly inundated with messages from well-wishers.  

During the inquiry on Friday, Mr Drumgold admitted failing to correct a file note he wrote following a meeting with Wilkinson and her Channel 10 lawyer in the lead-up to the TV awards last June. 

He endured a lengthy cross-examination by high-profile barrister Sue Chrysanthou, acting for Wilkinson.   

'To my mind, someone being told any publicity could give rise to a stay - particularly an experienced journalist sitting next to a media lawyer - would not arrive at any other possible conclusion than you shouldn't make the speech,' Mr Drumgold said on Friday.

'I am not the only source of information that Ms Wilkinson had. I knew that at the time. I am simply a prosecutor prosecuting a matter.

'I have done nothing but, from start of this matter, tell people not to talk about the matter.'

Ms Wilkinson won the award and gave her speech which generated intense media reporting about the case, resulting in ACT Supreme Court Chief Justice Lucy McCallum postponing proceedings to protect Mr Lehrmann's right to a fair trial.

She also experienced severe media criticism following the trial's delay, which included inaccurate reports about the chief justice's judgment.

Ms Chrysanthou asked Mr Drumgold why he did not take the opportunity to correct the record about Ms Wilkinson in open court.

'There was nothing but misreporting of this (case) and people associated with it ... every media outlet is misrepresenting this entire trial and all of the allegations, so at what point do I stop correcting the public record?' he replied.

Mr Drumgold said he did not think he was in a position to fix the reporting about Ms Wilkinson, but he conceded in hindsight he should have corrected the matter in court.

'I simply couldn't change the flow of the media, I couldn't make the media change their reporting,' he said.

Ms Chrysanthou told him 'the answer you just gave is illogical and irrational and contrary to human experience'. She then went on to suggest he somehow 'telepathically' knew what Wilkinson and the lawyer were thinking. 

The inquiry opened with Mr Drumgold insisting that his file note about discussions with Wilkinson and her lawyer was contemporaneous, meaning he made it immediately following the meeting.

However, under cross-examination, Mr Drumgold admitted that the note was not contemporaneous, but was actually made days after the meeting.

The note was actually penned about five days later - three hours before a hearing with all legal teams involved in the rape trial about the impact of Wilkinson's Logies speech and whether it would bias a jury.

It was handed to Chief Justice Lucy McCallum, who said in the ACT Supreme Court at the time that she believed it was contemporaneous and strongly criticised Wilkinson for her Logies speech. 

Under cross-examination, Mr Drumgold eventually conceded he should have corrected the Chief Justice.

Ms Chrysanthou pointed out that Mr Drumgold's junior counsel during the trial, Skye Jerome, had a different recollection of the meeting with Wilkinson.

Ms Jerome recalled Wilkinson had read a significant portion of her Logies speech during the meeting, before Mr Drumgold cut her off and said 'I'm not a speech writer'.

During her Logies acceptance speech, which was broadcast nationally, Wilkinson appeared to side with Ms Higgins - saying she 'believed' her allegations. She did not mention the trial, Mr Lehrmann, any criminal charge or Parliament House in her speech.

Chief Justice McCallum, who was presiding over the ACT Supreme Court rape trial, moved the hearing from June to October amid fears Wilkinson's comments would bias a jury.

At the time, the Chief Justice said Wilkinson was warned against making public comments about the impending hearing. The public backlash was so severe Wilkinson left her job as host of The Project.

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