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Jodie & Soda catch up with Australian Media Icon Kerri-Anne Kennerley who reveals her our personal experience of sexual harassment in the media industry.\u201cI was at a party once and the back of my dress was being unzipped\u201d\u201cAs I turned to swing around and hit said person I realised it was a really really really important person in the network and I said zip it up or I\u2019ll deck you\u201dKennerley indicates sexual harassment has been around in media since she first started and recent revelations of media personalizes like Don Burke doesn't surprise her.\u201cSexism, the discrimination and appalling behaviour went on for years\u2026the difference between the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s was there were no laws, so it is fabulous that a lot of women are acknowledging this behaviour because who wanted to talk about it before you more than likely got fired\u201d\u201cHaving done a few stories with Don, I know about that and what I considered was unbelievably vulgar language and I\u2019m not shrinking violet but even in those times it shocked me\u201dShe says her new book \u2018A Bold Life-Kerri-Anne Kennerley\u2019 also tells the story of the moment a tabloid magazine used her cancer diagnosis for a story. \u201cI remember one particular time I was sitting on a plane on the way for the charity I opened up the Saturday Telegraph because I see a picture of myself\u2026\u201cSince when does having a cancer become an opportunity for publicity starved celebrities, money hungry agents or foundations wanting famous ambassadors and it was a full page about myself Kylie Minogue and I think Delta was in there\u2026 I was gobsmacked and angry for a very long time\u201d