While celebrities fly in, these Gold Coasters stranded overseas 'feel less Australian'
By Dominic Cansdale
On the day she was supposed to get married last year, Michelle Doherty tested positive for COVID-19.
"Initially it was like being hit in the face," Michelle says.
"I'd walk into the kitchen and be like, 'I need to sit down'."
But even after enduring Spain's lockdown, where Ms Doherty could only leave her home for one hour a day, the lowest blow came in February this year, when both of her grandparents on the Gold Coast died.
"Even with my family, my sisters, I was like 'Can you just keep me on the phone in the room with everybody?'"