Caroline Marcus
August 16, 2009

SHE survived the Mumbai terror attacks and a very public domestic violence dispute with Matthew Newton, but actress Brooke Satchwell is flying high again.

The 28-year-old former Neighbours star has told InStyle magazine - the September issue is out tomorrow - that her priorities in life had changed in the past year.

The Melbourne-based beauty nearly became a casualty in the terrorist attacks that killed at least 173 people last November, while working on a documentary in the Indian city with her partner, film editor David Gross.

Satchwell had ducked out of the Oberoi Hotel, where the couple were staying, for a cigarette and stopped at the bathroom on her way back when gunfire broke out.

A year earlier, in 2007, her former partner of six years and fellow actor Matthew Newton was convicted of assaulting her in the Balmain home they shared, although the ruling was overturned by a Sydney judge.

''I know what my priorities are,'' Satchwell said. ''It's made me appreciate the value of a few seconds.'' Satchwell's new film Subdivision is an Australian comedy and will be screening on Thursday. "I can be silly in real life, so it was good to bring that to my work.''

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald