Assange’s fiancée wore extra clothes to hide pregnancy
JULIAN ASSANGE’S fiancée wore layers of clothes and loudly complained about putting on weight to avoid Ecuadorian officials discovering she was pregnant.
Stella Moris, a 37-year-old lawyer spoke out about her romantic relationship with the 49-year-old Wikileaks founder as he prepares for a four-week hearing at the Old Bailey, which is set to begin this week.
Assange faces 18 charges and a sentence of 175 years, should a judge grant his extradition to the United States. The charges on the indictment include conspiring to hack government computers, and violating espionage law after he published a series of leaks in 2010 from Chelsea Manning, the former US army intelligence analyst which Washington claims endangered the lives of its agents.
However Ms Moris, who has given birth to two of Assange’s young children – Gabriel and Max – decided to speak out as her fiancé’s legal team is keen to show that he has a young family who would be deprived of a father if he is sent to prison overseas.
In an interview with The Times Magazine, Ms Moris gave details of her pregnancies when she would visit Assange
while he was living in the Ecuadorian embassy, revealing that they went to great lengths to hide her bumps so that the Ecuadorians would not use it as a pretext to throw Assange out of the embassy – where he lived for almost seven years. He is currently imprisoned at Belmarsh, the maximum security prison in south east London.
She told how she would pile on layers of clothes every time she visited him and complained loudly for the benefit of the microphones about putting on weight.
“There were security guards there 24/7 and CCTV but not in Julian’s bedroom or office,” she said, revealing that even though there was no CCTV in his bedroom or office, Assange’s rooms were almost certainly bugged.
“But anything private or secret I wrote down on a piece of paper,” she added.
“That’s how I told Julian I was pregnant.”