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Jack Thompson's Former Lover Speaks Out

Bunkie King shares her side of living with Jack Thompson exclusively with New Idea, on sale now! Photo: New Idea

Meet Bunkie King, the younger of two sisters that Australian actor Jack Thompson was romantically and sexually involved with in the mid-1970s.

Bunkie, now sixty, met Jack when she was still in school. He provided her with the attention and affection she felt she missed as the youngest of six children.

At the time, Jack was living around the corner with her older sister Leona, who was 20.

'I felt bad, but I didn’t know how to give him up and walk away,' Bunkie says. 'I thought we were soul partners who shared a great spiritual connection.'

Jack Thompson in May last year. Photo: Getty
Jack Thompson in May last year. Photo: Getty

Jack Thompson in May last year. Photo: Getty

When Leona discovered the affair, Jack brazenly suggested they should operate as a threesome because he loved them both. This threesome would last for 15 years.

'It was often incorrectly assumed that Jack, my sister Leona and I shared the same bed. The sexual revolution was well underway, but we certainly weren't "swingers" in that sense!

'In many ways, it was quite old-fashioned. We had separate bedrooms. He was just sleeping with both of us.'

Bunkie's blistering story of her unconventional 15-year relationship with Jack Thompson is detailed in her new memoir, Somebody That I Used To Know: Love, Loss and Jack Thompson.

To read the rest of Bunkie's interview, pick up this week's issue of New Idea magazine, on sale now.

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