16/09/2026
“I’m still very pleased she got to go out the way she wanted to go. I’m proud of her for it. But it also feels totally surreal that we had that experience and I’m not sure I could ever handle going through it again. It was incredibly hard. Grief just sneaks up on you. Like, every now and again, it gets me. I just wish she was here to see all of it.”
She is the face and voice delivering the biggest stories of the day, but 1News anchor Melissa Stokes reveals the heartbreak that pushes her to always seek more. She opens up about the joy of raising teenage boys, the love that sustains her and why she has never felt more confident in our latest issue, out now.
