Dannii Minogue emerges on social media with strange post following ex-husband Julian McMahon's death
The Australian actor, best known for roles in Charmed and Nip/Tuck, died last week at age 56 after a private cancer battle.
Dannii, who was married to the former Home and Away star for 18 months, has not posted to her Instagram account for the past three weeks.
The pop star broke her almost month-long social media silence on Thursday with a surprising post.
Taking to her Instagram Stories, Dannii shared a short clip that showed her modelling clothes for television shopping network QVC.
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She was wearing one of her own creations from her Dannii Minogue Petites label – a flowing floral print dress.
Dannii was sporting an oddly stoic expression, looking all business in the clip as she quickly whisked herself across the frame.
It comes after Julian passed away after a secret battle with cancer, his wife, Kelly Paniagua, confirmed on Friday.
'Julian loved life. He loved his family. He loved his friends. He loved his work, and he loved his fans. His deepest wish was to bring joy into as many lives as possible,' she said in the heartbreaking statement obtained by Deadline.
The former X-Factor Australia star has not made any official statement following Julian's shock death last week.
However, she did give an insight into their whirlwind marriage just one month before Julian's passing.
Dannii originally met Julian in 1990 while co-starring as Emma Jackson and Ben Lucini on the set of Home and Away.
Three years later, Dannii (born Danielle) enlisted Julian to play her boyfriend in her music videos for This Is It and This Is the Way before art imitated life and they tied the knot.
However, the union was short-lived, with the couple parting ways just a year and a half later.
But Dannii never won over the approval of McMahon's late mother Lady Sonia, who didn't want her entering the political world dominated by his late father Sir Billy, the former Prime Minister of Australia.
'She thought that I was wanting to be part of that world [and] that I was going to take, take, take from them,' Dannii recalled on How to Fail podcast on May 27.
'And it was the furthest thing from the truth and not what I wanted at all. So she made it very clear that I was not to be around and she didn't want me a part of anything. Yet Julian wanted me to be his wife.
'I knew that their [mother-son] relationship there was a lot had gone on and he loved and adored her, but they were not close in many ways. So it was a wild time. I mean, it was a lot to take on and that's how swept off my feet I was and thought that it could still work.'
The marriage began falling apart after The Residence actor moved to New York City to star in NBC soap opera Another World while Dannii flew back and forth from London.
'Each time I came back there was just something not right,' Minogue remembered.
'Things I saw in the apartment, there were people around that I didn't know, and he was just very, very distant to the point that he called it off. But in the meantime, we'd run through all my money.'
The Thinking 'Bout Us singer said Julian 'was financially on his feet earning all of his money, keeping his money' while she was 'paying for everything.'
'So I was not only personally absolutely brokenhearted but I was broke. I had no money in the bank,' Dannii confessed.
It was a similar sentiment that Dannii expressed in 2019 on the No Filter podcast.
'There was no relationship, she wouldn't speak to me, I wasn't allowed to be near her in the house,' she told No Filter at the time.
'We just had no idea how to handle it - we were just trying to'.
Dannii also discussed her difficult relationship with her former mother-in-law in a candid interview on Anh's Brush with Fame in 2019.
'She [Sonia] would not let me go to the family house. Sometimes Julian had to go and collect something and I was waiting in the car out the front,' she said.
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