Sparring buddies Laura & Moni ‘BOXING BROUGHT US TOGETHER’
‘I didn’t know who I was as a woman and I saw Laura as a threat’
When Moni Meredith (née Bree) and Laura McGoldrick first came into contact eight years ago, it wasn’t exactly a case of “friends at first sight”. That’s not to say the actor and the radio/TV presenter weren’t highly aware of each other when Laura joined Auckland’s Boxing Alley in Parnell, where Moni was a personal trainer.
“We didn’t gravitate towards one another would be the polite way to put it,” says Moni, 37, who played Detective Natalie Mahoney on until 2019, and who now coaches women through her online training programme Shadow Camp (), founded during lockdown last year. “Back then, I had so much trauma and was so competitive and so threatened by
