FORMER model and actress Tziporah Malkah has reunited with her estranged mother, politician Pru Goward.
Malkah, 44, formerly known as Kate Fischer, has spoken extensively about the breakdown of the relationship with her mother.
“I understand my mother, that she is not motherly,” Malkah said earlier this year.
The I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here contestant claims Goward’s career is “where all [her] love has gone”.
Goward has previously denied those claims.
“Mums just do the best they can do and I just loved her to bits,” Goward told The Daily Telegraph in April.
“I was probably over-protective ... Being a mother, it’s a wonderful devotion.”
But now the pair have been reunited in Yass, NSW, just days after a Melbourne court fined Malkah $1500 and suspended her drivers license for driving erratically.
“I am extremely grateful that I was inadvertently given the chance to see my family in Yass last week,” Malkah wrote on Facebook.
“I told my mother that I could do gaol time for refusing to take the plea I’d been offered days earlier. As a result my poor mother stressed out and fainted a day or so later,” she wrote.
“I will not be going to gaol as per the magistrate’s ruling yesterday. I pray for the health of my mother & family at this time.”
In April Goward opened up about her fractured relationship with her daughter, saying she hopes the two can reconcile.
“We’ll see. We have quite a few years to go,” Goward admitted.
Malkah won the Dolly model search in 1988 at age 14, and Goward said she was worried about the impact of being so public at such a young age.
“I was very concerned about her going into modelling so young. I thought she should wait, but it wasn’t to be,” Goward told The Daily Telegraph.
“For many years it gave her access to a wonderful world, but today there are quite different rules around underage children modelling. Back then it was a bit freer, and for parents it probably made it more difficult,” she said.
She also opened up about Malkah’s relationship with James Packer.
“I like James. These very high-profile relationships are tough on young people,” Goward said. “They were so young ... how can they possibly have [had] the space to develop a relationship with the scrutiny?”
Malkah, who starred in the 1994 film Sirens, now lives on a pension of $200 a fortnight, it was revealed in court last week.
She is currently undergoing training to become a nurse in Israel.
She was born Katherine Helen Fischer, but legally changed her name to Tziporah Malkah in her early 20s.
Tziporah means “bird” in Hebrew. It’s a family name passed down from her grandmother.
Her family is Jewish but has not practised Judaism for many years.
“I was given a gentile name to be in the street, but at home I’ve always been Tziporah. I’ve just decided to reclaim it,” Malkah said on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.
“If anyone calls me ‘Kate’, ‘Zippy’ or ‘Zip’, they’ve got three strikes and they’re out. I’ll let them know.”
In the ‘About Me’ section on her public Facebook page, she renounces her birth name.
“Tziporah is how I wish to be addressed,” she wrote. “You won’t get far with Kate — it is not my name and it is disrespectful for people to be wilfully rude and ignore this simple request.”
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