“I knew it wasn’t a proper apology,” Karolina says.
“It wasn’t for me. It was for herself.
“I just think that’s very narcissistic, she’s very interested in herself rather than about how she hurt me.
“I know when people actually are very sorry for who they’ve hurt. I don’t think that’s her at all, no.”
The 46-year-old called Lyn a “f-----g old bag”, and went on to reveal she questions her competitor’s motives in making the comment.
“She knows I’ve got two children. She knows they came out of my vagina,” Karolina states. “Are you a f-----g stupid woman or are you just a f-----g bully b---h?
“I don’t like people like her because she was absolutely threatened by my nature, by who I am.
“When I met Lyn, I knew she was my problem. The moment I sat next to her. I saw the snakes right away in her.”
Karolina also confirmed to New Idea that the incident actually occurred off-camera but the Perth fashion designer was keen to air Lyn’s comments publicly.
“It probably didn’t need to go any further but Karolina wanted it to be brought up at the table so it was on camera,” Group Two member Lisa explains.
And according to Lyn, 60, there’s more to the story than meets the eye.
“When we first met her, she made a comment about how people think she’s a ‘t****y’,” Lyn says. “When we were at Pat and Bianca’s restaurant we were off camera and Piper was saying, ‘Oh my God Karolina, when you walked on you were so tall’, and I thought Piper was going to say, ‘and we thought you were a t****y’ – and I said it. Karolina got upset and walked off.”
Lyn describes the incident as “mortifying” and says that she’s genuinely sorry for what she said
“The next day we ran into each other in the corridor and I hugged her and said that I was sorry again and it was fine from that point,” she says.
Now, Lyn is shocked to learn Karolina is still extremely upset by the comment and hasn’t actually forgiven her at all.
“As far as I was concerned the impression she gave me was that it was all done and dusted,” she reasons.
“I have apologised and I can’t do any more than that. I can’t take it back – it happened. I am sincerely sorry and sometimes we have to accept apologies.
“If she didn’t want it to go further she shouldn’t have brought it up.”
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