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Former Home & Away star Tammin Sursok has reassured fans her nine-year-old daughter, Phoenix is safe after she was caught up in a horrific school shooting in the United States.
The Australian soap star ran off to Hollywood more than 16 years ago to chase her acting dreams. Where she since met her husband Sean McEwen and had two girls Phoenix and four-year old Lennon.
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Families in the Nashville, Tennessee area were “hysterical” after female shooter open fired at a church-run primary school, killing six people including three children.
In an emotional video, Tammin shared some insider knowledge of the situation and revealed her eldest daughter was in lockdown. “There’s been an active shooter in one of the schools in Nashville… It’s right next to my daughter’s school. She’s on lockdown, she’s fine,” she said.
The young mum confessed the attack was “really close to home.”
“I can’t believe this keeps happening and you always think it’s not going to happen to you,” she said. “I can’t even let my brain go there because it’s just too horrifying to even think of.”
“Our community in Nashville is in shock. My thoughts and prayers are with the families going though this unimaginable tragedy.”
The following school day, Tammin revealed little Lennon was reluctant to leave her mother’s side and pleaded that firearms legislation be amended to end mass shootings.
“My youngest didn’t want to go to school. She’s too young to know what’s going on but I know she feels it subconsciously. I can’t bare to make her go so she’s in bed with me. We should have to live like this,” she wrote.
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“I’m so angry. I know there are many views on guns. I understand that. But how can we not come together and find SOME solution? How do we do NOTHING? How do we say there is nothing we can do? How do we brush it under the table? How do we keep living like this? We have to come together.”
She highlighted the lack of discussion regarding gun violence and school shootings, linking it back to the “feeling of hopelessness and fear to start the discussion.”
“We must start the discussion. We must do something.”
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